Snape's Memories Again

[Kat Macfarlane]

No: HPFGUIDX 135469

Gatta:

Why is it that when we are shown Snape's memories (OotP, hb U.S. ed.), both when he is teaching Harry Occlumency (p. 592) and in the Pensieve (pp. 640-649), Snape appears "in the third person", as it were?
That is, from the outside, even though it is Snape doing the remembering?

Am I just strange? Don't most people remember themselves "in the first person", from the inside out?

Gatta.