Read the given story and classify it as 'imagined', 'recalled', or 'retold'. If a story is imagined, the person who wrote the story is making it up, pretending they experienced it. If a story is recalled, the person who wrote the story really experienced it and is recalling it from memory. If a story is retold, it is a real memory like the 'recalled' stories, but written down much later after previously writing a 'recalled' story about the same events. So, recalled stories and retold stories will be fairly similar, in that they both were real experiences for the writer. Imagined stories have a more linear flow and contain more commonsense knowledge, whereas recalled stories are less connected and contain more specific concrete events. Additionally, higher levels of self reference are found in imagined stories. Between recalled and retold stories, retold stories flow significantly more linearly than recalled stories, and retold stories are significantly higher in scores for cognitive processes and positive tone.
Q: A month ago I decided to paint some rooms in my house. I have high ceilings so I have to use a tall ladder. Reaching to get some parts of the room can be tricky on a ladder. My wife was in the kitchen baking cookies. I have painted before so I was not too nervous. I had the paint in the garage. I had to get the paint prepped. I open the paint and one can tipped over. The paint spilled all over the floor. That mishap took awhile to clean up. I got the paint and ladder to the room. Once I got on the ladder it seemed so far up. I was getting nervous. I calmed down and got comfortable with painting on the ladder. After an hour I leaned over too far. I flipped off the ladder and my wife called an ambulance to take me to the hospital. I have now basically recovered.
A: 
imagined