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[–]dv11551 point
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What's strange is that large groups of people can have exactly the same false memory. For example Berenstain Bears or Berenstein? Remember the scene at the end of Wizard of Oz where she realizes it was all a dream, but then you see the ruby slippers proving it wasn't? (That scene never existed.) Do you remember Forrest Gump saying "life IS like a box of chocolates"? (he didn't).
Maybe it's mass delusion, or perhaps there are things about the nature of reality that we don't yet fully understand.
I think some of those things can adequately be explained by your memories being altered by what you expect to be true. Your brain fills in the gaps of your memories. I learned to read thanks to the Berenstain Bears and I'd swear up and down it was Berenstein but I accept that 1) my young self wouldn't find Berenstain an odd spelling and 2) I probably applied the common Berenstein spelling to my memories after the fact. Same thing with that Forrest Gump quote, with the added bias of "life IS like a box of chocolates" being a widely recognized quote and meme born from the movie.
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[–] dv1155 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
What's strange is that large groups of people can have exactly the same false memory. For example Berenstain Bears or Berenstein? Remember the scene at the end of Wizard of Oz where she realizes it was all a dream, but then you see the ruby slippers proving it wasn't? (That scene never existed.) Do you remember Forrest Gump saying "life IS like a box of chocolates"? (he didn't).
Maybe it's mass delusion, or perhaps there are things about the nature of reality that we don't yet fully understand.
/v/mandelaeffect
http://mandelaeffect.com/major-memories
[–] ScientiaPotentia 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You must be from an alternate universe.
[–] pepepepepe 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I think some of those things can adequately be explained by your memories being altered by what you expect to be true. Your brain fills in the gaps of your memories. I learned to read thanks to the Berenstain Bears and I'd swear up and down it was Berenstein but I accept that 1) my young self wouldn't find Berenstain an odd spelling and 2) I probably applied the common Berenstein spelling to my memories after the fact. Same thing with that Forrest Gump quote, with the added bias of "life IS like a box of chocolates" being a widely recognized quote and meme born from the movie.
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[–] dv1155 ago
Not in this timeline. It's now "life WAS like a box of chocolates"