Realised another false memory last night and it's time someone did a study into whether they prove we are in the matrix or my personal theory:
Every time we sleep we wake up in a slightly different parallel universe where certain things we remember are no longer true.
I can't be the only one experiencing this.
Two movie related false memories I've had:
1. In the original Star Wars trilogy I remember a scene where it shows how Darth Vader got his injuries. It showed him in a boat on a river of lava and he fell in. Always assumed it was a scene cut from the later releases but can't find anything about that scene, despite a new version of the scene appearing in a prequel movie recently. I haven't read the books (i.e. it wasn't my imagination coming up with the memory) so no idea where that memory came from.
2. Was watching an old 70s horror movie last night called Fright starring Dennis Waterman and the super-sexy (at the time) Susan George. I remember watching the movie as a kid as part of the usual friday night horror movie broadcasts, but always remembered Dennis Waterman being hung from a tree and being discovered by the babysitter. Not according to the movie I watched last night.
I've also had a few other false memories. One involving an uncle and a car accident from before I was born (was life changing so not something you forget easily once told), and until recently I always thought the circumstances were totally different to what my mum recently said, and can't see any reason for them to have changed the story over time.
So something is playing silly buggers with my memory.
Every time we sleep we wake up in a slightly different parallel universe where certain things we remember are no longer true.
I can't be the only one experiencing this.
Two movie related false memories I've had:
1. In the original Star Wars trilogy I remember a scene where it shows how Darth Vader got his injuries. It showed him in a boat on a river of lava and he fell in. Always assumed it was a scene cut from the later releases but can't find anything about that scene, despite a new version of the scene appearing in a prequel movie recently. I haven't read the books (i.e. it wasn't my imagination coming up with the memory) so no idea where that memory came from.
2. Was watching an old 70s horror movie last night called Fright starring Dennis Waterman and the super-sexy (at the time) Susan George. I remember watching the movie as a kid as part of the usual friday night horror movie broadcasts, but always remembered Dennis Waterman being hung from a tree and being discovered by the babysitter. Not according to the movie I watched last night.
I've also had a few other false memories. One involving an uncle and a car accident from before I was born (was life changing so not something you forget easily once told), and until recently I always thought the circumstances were totally different to what my mum recently said, and can't see any reason for them to have changed the story over time.
So something is playing silly buggers with my memory.
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