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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > False memories
 
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CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



 Those aren't technically false memories - those are memory errors, misremembering.

I have actual false memories from when I was hospitalized with multiple skull fractures. Really intense, vivid, real-seeming memories of poo poo that emphatically didn't happen. There wasn't a golf course outside the critical ward I was on. There wasn't a movie theater on the floor below mine. The straitjacket they put me in wasn't actually covered with silver sequins. Those are false memories. (The straitjacket was real, just not the sequins.)

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CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013

Non Krampus Mentis posted:

The logical part of my brain knows I probably was just having a very vivid dream that just stuck with me for no real reason.

The rest of me, with full and true conviction, knows I got up in the middle of the night when I was six and saw the Easter Bunny in the yard.

Now that sounds like a false memory.

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