Post AmFIf19eQClILrY2Do by Seruko@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AmFExVTq0jgznhYE4G by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-22T00:31:47Z
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Person Who Thinks They Saw A UFO/Bigfoot: "People think you are crazy or you are just making it up."I wish more people could understand that generally sane and honest people can have terrifying experiences because the human brain is very strange and can be tricked, and enhance and distort experiences in shocking ways.
(DIR) Post #AmFF5e322ZJQgntRtg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-22T00:33:16Z
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There is a remarkable experiment where they got people to describe a totally false memory by showing them a photo they didn't remember mixed in with photos from childhood. The subject swore up and down the memory was real. Sane people. And not people trying to lie either. Really the "Satanic Panic" is another example of this. Memories are fragile things in some ways.
(DIR) Post #AmFFNOaOGZb3wnxcbw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-22T00:36:31Z
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I had my own version of this with a photo of me as a baby in a Sear's photo studio done up to look like a room full of toys. As a small child I tried to remember ... and *thought* I could remember playing in that room with those toys. When I was older I could see that some of them were just painted on the walls, or just props that couldn't have been what I remembered. It really creeped me out if I'm honest!
(DIR) Post #AmFFOwULhdo1Nrs9WS by louisffourie@c.im
2024-09-22T00:36:38Z
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@futurebird We have a sad example of the "Satanic Panic" just north of here.https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/satanic-panic/
(DIR) Post #AmFFVEruHONg7rtTO4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-22T00:37:55Z
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@gemini6ice The one I saw involved a photo of a ballon ride. And the participants duelly recalled riding in a balloon even though it never happened.
(DIR) Post #AmFFYxyH2rjKsVeJsm by chris@abraham.su
2024-09-22T00:38:30Z
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@futurebird there was totally a satanic obsession but it was minimalized by the media and dismissed as hysteria. Fun times!
(DIR) Post #AmFFbHf6o1xiWln30C by Jon_Kramer@mastodon.social
2024-09-22T00:38:56Z
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@futurebird I wonder how false memories appear based on how good someone thinks their memory is.
(DIR) Post #AmFFfZuusOewIpEQZU by smellsofbikes@mastodon.social
2024-09-22T00:39:44Z
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@futurebird It's weird to remember remembering, and not the actual memory itself, and see how many errors creep in, and then start doubting a lot of other things.
(DIR) Post #AmFFh6RnPmoTU1L0s4 by vruz@mstdn.social
2024-09-22T00:40:04Z
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@futurebird My experience is that in general, most people understand that. What they hate is the mercantilisation and industrial amplification of that, that in turn makes other susceptible people believe those things are real through persistent exposure to nonsense in the media.
(DIR) Post #AmFFjrmGPhn4r1EH0y by chris@abraham.su
2024-09-22T00:39:19Z
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@futurebird that's a good enough cover to protect the aliens and the bigfoots.
(DIR) Post #AmFGaRA26WFDeUPm1g by quinsibell@sauropods.win
2024-09-22T00:50:04Z
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@futurebird this isn't even a bug, it's a feature. Our memories are not a perfect record of the past because our senses are not perfect and our cognition is constrained by lack of data and high resource consumption. Being able to update memories with new information is evolutionarily useful. An immutable record of the past is not.
(DIR) Post #AmFH7cljxxdlD6sQsq by CStamp@mastodon.social
2024-09-22T00:56:03Z
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@futurebird I have a couple of UFO stories. One was in northern Ontario. I was outside one night with 2 others. They were facing the other way & both claimed to see a UFO. it was gone when I looked. They saw a green light in the sky that suddenly accelerated across the sky out of sight. When we recounted this later to a friend who happened to work in the military, he said laser tests had been done & it sounded like what they saw. The second one was out east…
(DIR) Post #AmFIf19eQClILrY2Do by Seruko@mstdn.social
2024-09-22T01:13:13Z
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@futurebird the thing that convinced me I could never trust my fragile human memory was this memory test ->https://youtu.be/KB_lTKZm1Ts?si=90rMpbZRKltnCiC0
(DIR) Post #AmFNcD1iKDDG4eJd68 by dgodon@mastodon.online
2024-09-22T02:08:48Z
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@futurebird My mom told this story many times of seeing bigfoot and a UFO on the same roadtrip
(DIR) Post #AmFd2O5NKS3xDMy8qe by Jon_Kramer@mastodon.social
2024-09-22T05:01:37Z
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@futurebird this happened to me as an adult not long ago. I ran into a guy I know at a bar. The problem was I remembered 2 completely self exclusive things about him. I KNEW both of these things were true, but logically they were mutually exclusive. One, or both memories were completely false. But I knew they were both true.
(DIR) Post #AmFn0JPCl2eNf5tR9k by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-09-22T06:53:16Z
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@futurebird Very literally, people will adjust themselves to fit in the picture, sometimes.Not fitting in is worse than death, to social species.
(DIR) Post #AmFne6FF6lWuQbCodM by regordane@mastodon.me.uk
2024-09-22T07:00:25Z
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@futurebirdI find it helpful to think about the purpose of memory. It doesn't exist to record the past, because that is useless. We have evolved memory in order to respond more effectively to situations we may encounter in the future and improve our chance of survival. In many cases, an accurate record is useful, eg to find one's way to food or safety. But not always. Memories are frequently edited, re-shaped and re-combined.
(DIR) Post #AmGEG3vokrfn48slsW by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2024-09-22T11:58:33Z
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@futurebird The difference is between stopping at "I saw something weird/terrifying that I can't explain" and continuing "so it was obviously aliens/Bigfoot."
(DIR) Post #AmGTjUTucXIV7SJvTE by rayhindle@mastodon.social
2024-09-22T14:52:03Z
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@futurebird Acquired memories, a good way o check is can you see yourself in the memory or are you looking at it from your own point of view?