Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997)

Re:Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997) by sp332 on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @11:50PM (#12402988)

I don't think it's talking about external reality. It's talking about the past. Your memories are the real, even physical residue of your experience of the past. And the past doesn't exist anymore in any other form.

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Re:Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997) by orly_bookz on Thursday September 01, 2016 @09:25AM (#12405022)

And then the fun part is that every time you remember a memory, you re-encode it and (probably) slightly alter it.

When you vividly remember an event from a decade ago it most likely did not happen like you remember. They've done longitudinal studies on people's memories of things like JFK assassination and 9/11. People swear they remember it clear as day but it never really matches up to what they were actually doing...

Memories are bunk, is my point. Only media can really record history.

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Re:Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997) by Nadya on Friday September 02, 2016 @03:08PM (#12415433)

>Memories are bunk, is my point. Only media can really record history.

I don't trust media because Berenstein bears is the proper spelling [0]. I died when I was 6 years old after an asthma attack and shifted into another timeline where I survived. It shares most of the same details but likes to throw a few typos in to check if I'm paying attention. I'm not sure the purpose of these tests, but I'm sure I'll figure it out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation#Mandela_effect

While confabulation is a severe problem with human memory, I don't trust media because history is written by the winners.

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Re:Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997) by collyw on Thursday September 01, 2016 @01:34PM (#12407253)

And media can be manipulated. Its like 1984 when you think about it.

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