06/23/2017

I’m Pretty Sure I Remember That — False Memories

How our minds create memories they want us to have

If you haven’t yet encountered them, there are two recent theories floating around the internet involving alleged evidence of alterations to our timeline: the missing Shazaam movie, and the Curious Case of the Berenstxxn Bears. Both purport to show that segments of the population remember specific details from the past that have inexplicably changed into something else, the first a genie movie starring the comedian Sinbad that now doesn’t exist, and the second, a shift in the spelling of the last name of a family of bears in a series of children’s books.

What these phenomena more likely represent is how our minds can play tricks on us through false memories. The video below from AsapSCIENCE gives an entertaining explanation of the concept.

And for the record, the Sinbad movie never existed, those are false memories, but the Bears’ last name has clearly changed, so I’m pretty sure I’ve been shifted off of the true timeline into this alternate darker reality.

Please click here to read the complete article from The Scholarly Kitchen.