Originally posted by Ethereal Gargoyle
Originally posted by Ethereal Gargoyle
Well, here's some of my "grist", previously contributed to another mill.
Nobody cared about it there.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
And nobody cares about it here either.
Ah well. Was hoping somebody had a similar experience or something.
Guess not....
[edit on 18-10-2009 by Ethereal Gargoyle]
I would say I have seen similar phenomena, but not quite as dramatic.
This is why I can say without a doubt that the reason you don't see more people discuss this is that MOST people who encounter this scenario just
change themselves to fit what must have happened because what they experienced doesn't fit the circumstances at hand.
People edit their memories on the fly. The best part about this is that if the edit happens right away, it happens before the person writes their
working memory to short term and mid term memory. So the memory can be actually gone before it even imprints.
I've seen this happen numerous times, watching people reorder their brain to accomodate what must be/cannot be, to explain it away.
It must be a very good human survival trait, to reorder oneself to fit. People do it all the time with cultures, language, trauma, crime, etc.
Only when something happens to a sufficient number of people at the same time, and one or two of them will not be swayed do people not perform this
mental trick to fit in. Of course, then they are fitting in to the crowd still, but one or two people grabbed the crowd before they could start the
process of reordering themselves to their new environment. A couple of leaders gave the crowd the ability to resist by joining together.
Very very very few people seem to have the ability to resist this.
I'm not saying that I am ALWAYS that person. I certain feel the tug of the crowd, the need to not rock the boat, to change myself to fit in. I
don't deny that I do. I do still seem to have more ability to retain what I experienced without it being changed to fit circumstances or a crowd. I
think this is what lets people who see these odd events, and keep them in their minds as they experienced it. Sometimes even keeping more than one
line of experience at the same time, without feeling the need to choose one over the other.