Honesty and personal integrity play a small part in weighing anecdotes like these.
You (and all of us) are almost completly different people than we were as children, so the fact that you think you have now turned out a model citizen means didly squat as to what you were like aged 5, 6, 7 etc.
Nor does the idea of an angelic honest 5, 6, 7 year old mean didly squat as to how someone turns out as an adult.
Get over yourself. You thought you saw something and have repeated the story ad nauseum into adulthood as if it was fact. I did the same with my own experience aged 6. It wasnt until I researched into stuff I read on this very forum that I went off and took a real interest in the brain, psychology and sleep disorders and found almost all the supernatural stuff is easily explained that way including my own experience.
No one likes being wrong, or being duped, or making a mistake, especially if that error is repeated as fact to others and in the retelling it is embellished with false memories so that you no longer are exactly sure what you really and exactly do remember about it and what is now the edited directors cut extended version of it.
Remembering memories accurately is not straightforward, especially if time has passed, the recall can be faulty and gaps in memory filled, this then becomes the true version, especially if it is repeated regularly. I personally have a very good memory for a lot of things, I can remember almost every conversation i have ever had in my life, but perfect recall, no. We all make mistakes when it comes to recall.
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable and for very good reasons.