Besides aliens and UFOs, not sure what to think about those. But seriously, watching these TOP 10 NIGHTMARE INDUCING VIDEOS on youtube is just blurry shadows of someone poking their head around a corner or someone in a costume. I get that people want to believe in the paranormal, but c'mon guy, I've seen b-movie schlock more convincing than the shit out there.

  • comi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Materialism strikes again. But for real, human memory is much more mutable and influenced by emotions than we care to admit, so like people who remember seeing something weird will remain convinced it happened, and arguing it is pointless, as it seems like gaslighting from their brain pov.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]M
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      4 years ago

      But for real, human memory is much more mutable and influenced by emotions than we care to admit, so like people who remember seeing something weird will remain convinced it happened, and arguing it is pointless, as it seems like gaslighting from their brain pov.

      This is why I find gangstalking to be such an interesting phenomenon and plays into this.

      • comi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I find it horrifying tbh, that at some point in life my brain can decide some weird shit and I wouldn’t even know it

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]M
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          4 years ago

          I used to get real paranoid about shit when I was a reactionary, but it's weird now that I'm a leftist I guess I just take things in stride? Not sure, but like I said, I'm much more grounded in my analysis of things now.

        • RandyLahey [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I posted it as a joke in another thread the other day, but I was 100% convinced for years as a kid that this dude in a fancy-coloured old-timey van had come to our house in the middle of the day and just started methodically stealing everything out of our pantry, like all the pasta and biscuits and shit, and me and my family were just standing there powerless to do anything about it as he took load after load of our food (and nothing else) out into his truck. My parents have confirmed that I went on about this for years, so it wasn't just me thinking that I thought this as a kid. And the memory is so fucking vivid, even though the whole thing is so patently ridiculous. But yeah who knows how much other more-plausible shit my brain has told me I remember over the years, even though it's complete bullshit? It's kinda scary stuff

          • comi [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Probably watched some :stalin-point: documentary or propaganda. Mr steal your pantry after all :meow-shining:

            • RandyLahey [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Couldn't have been, he didn't even touch the ultimate communist prize, my extremely valuable Star Wars The Return Of The JediTM Ewok Electric Toothbrush

              Probably brainworms from the fucking hamburglar or some shit though

          • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I still have a vividly real memory of a green man smiling at me through my window. I'm sure it was a sleep paralysis shit, but I always avoid looking out windows at night now.