There's probably different levels of recall. Like, raw acknowledgement of timestamps, i.e. this must have happened here while I was there. And then actual high level understanding and processing, like I was at this place and it was unusual for my daily routine, because I needed some papers signed, or whatever.

Probably in a normal functioning person they go lock step so you don't notice how they are different. But if your processes are out of sync, it could explain how they arrived at their feelings.