psychological – Mysteries of the world

r/NoodleEmpress

This one is a bit more personal to me, but growing up my mom and I always made an effort to go to the beach every Friday afternoon.

When it got too dark to be in the water, we would make our way to the park that was right next to the beach.

On some Fridays, we would just chill on one of the slides and look at the stars. One day I saw this light spinning around and remember asking my mom what it was.

She told me that it was a lighthouse, and that it’s used at night to stop ships from crashing into the shore.

I remember this vividly because it was kind of like my gateway into hyperfixating on sunken and shipwrecked ships.

Years later, over a decade (so this was probably in the mid to late 2000s), got back into lighthouses. I go online to see if this lighthouse that saw was still in commission, and I can’t find any traces of it.

So I ask my mom, and apparently this conversation we had never took place according to her. I insist, and finally she’s like “idk babes, probably forgot”

So I go looking deeper, and apparently there was never a lighthouse where thought it was.

To this day it fucks me up, because I KNOW what I saw, I KNOW what we talked about.

r/Single-Ad3828

Apparently Kit Kat has no hiphen.

r/SK570

I don’t know if it counts, but I had a favorite orange t-shirt and I haven’t seen it in years. Asked my mom if she knows anything about it and described the drawings on it. She went “You mean the turquoise one? It’s in x drawer” I fought her a while about it and finally went to check the said drawer and there it was, my favorite “orange” shirt in all its turquoise glory

r/SteveJones313

Honestly not even the famous ones, more like shit in my town changing. Small stuff, but infuriating.

For example, near one of the shops where me and my brother would go for walks were these weird pillars, the small kind you’d put up to prevent cars from driving through. Well there’d be days where they’re not there and no one I ask remembers them being there. Then there are days when they’re there and when I ask about them I get the whole “they’ve always been there.”

It’s one of the few MEs I’ve experienced in this town.

r/USSMarauder

Not me, but a few other folks

I’m an amateur astronomer, and the book in our astronomy club library that causes the most controversy is one about bright comets of the last few decades

A comet bright enough to see from the city happens about once a decade on average. And a lot of people saw one in the sky when they were kids or in their teens, and then years later they ask about it. And so the book comes out and they look through it and check the year and go ‘that’s not right’. Because they remember seeing the comet when they were in middle school, when in reality it was when they were in high school, or vice versa.

r/nfms_ginger21

The fact that shaggy doesn’t have a protruding Adam’s apple

Edit: holy shit I did not expect this to blow up as much as it did.

r/thecanaryisdead2099

The “objects in mirror MAY BE closer than they appear” one still bugs me.

r/The-one-true-hobbit

The one that always gets me is particular to my friends and I from when we were kids. There was a creek that ran under the street in the neighborhood and we would sometimes hang out in the banks on either side of the road. There was this big rock that we would sit on all the time. Except one day we were walking by and it wasn’t a rock. It was a small tree. Fully rooted in and established and the rock was no where to be seen. Mind you, it was an extremely heavy boulder. We passed that spot all the time and all of us remember that rock. We call it the shapeshifting rock.

r/rest explorer

Ok ok hear me out.

First of all: in Brazil you tipically don’t go to school (middle school or high school, doesn’t matter) for the whole day. You are in school either in the morning (usually 7.30 am to noon) or in the afternoon (usually 1pm to 5.30pm).

Every single person who was a kid in Brazil (and was not ir school in the mornings) when 9/11 happened remembers watching Dragon Ball Z and having it be interrupted for the breaking news of the attacks. And I mean EVERYONE. It comes up every time someone asks “what were you doing when 9/11 happened”.

Except DBZ wasn’t on at that time. Someone checked the airing times and compared to the time when the attacks happened. Definitely not on.

Still, a whole generation of kids is 100% sure they were watching DBZ when the news broke out.

edit: wow this blew up etc etc. also holy fuck everyone saying that this isn’t real and they edited the timetables after the fact. You sound like conspiracy theorists. Look up Occam’s Razor. This has been thoroughly discussed by Brazilians on the internet. It’s not something new. Someone else said it in this thread: the tv show that played DBZ wasn’t even aired on that day.

The truth is that our brain works in mysterious ways and experts still have a lot to figure out about our brain. There are many psychological phenomena that we have some kind of knowledge about and yet new facts and odd things are discovered on a daily basis. We encounter a lot of things on our day to day activities that leave us completely perplexed. Redditors share their knowledge about some of those weird occurrences that can be attributed to a psychological phenomena.

r/jakeyb01

Blindsight-blind people who have an awareness of their surroundings. Their brains still process data from their eyes at a certain level, they just can’t consciously see anything.

r/BillFroman

I’m not sure how true this is but a woman was diagnosed through voices she had heard telling her exactly where to go and where the tumor was. If anything its a good read.

r/weddinglion
Your brain kind of defrags irrelevant information. If you go on a long, uneventful drive, you might only remember the first and last ten minutes (or something unusual in between), but your brain deems it pointless.

r/TheBassMeister

The Frequency Illusion/Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

The frequency illusion is when you start noticing something for the first time and suddenly it appears that this something suddenly crops up everywhere. In reality this is not true. A good example is a (not currently trending) word you heard for the first time. Suddenly you read and hear this word all the time.

r/Satures

I had a customer who “knew” that her entire family had been replaced by actors. Those had gone through extensive surgery and training to mimic their body language, way of speaking and such while all memories of the relative they replaced had been transferred to them with a chip in the arm. She told me she was a nurse and had witnessed this in other cases. “It’s really crazy! This actor lives in the house of your relative, looks like him, speaks like him, knows everything that happened 20 years ago. But this isn’t your relative!”

She was 100% convinced of this, not the smallest doubt. Her main concern was what happened to her real family. Only years later I learnt this is called Capgras delusion. I hope she got help, and that she could ‘reunite’ with her family.

r/illit3

People can be made to remember things that never happened.

This is a large part of what caused the “satanic panic”

r/puppy_amuser

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. When I was a little girl lying in bed I would sometimes feel like I was gigantic, like my body was taking up the entire room, or microscopically small. Winds up this is an actual thing that happens to a fairly large amount of people, although normally just a few fleeting instances in their lifetime.

r/kingbane2

placebo effect is the one that is the strangest to me. it’s so wild, like fake thing that causes a real effect. what’s even more wild is the placebo effect works on animals, AND it works on humans when you TELL them they’re getting a placebo and show them it’s a placebo. it’s so weird.

r/Warpmind

I don’t recall the scientific term with any certainty, but Doorway Syndrome.

Basically, you think of one thing, then walk through a doorway, and it’s gone, filed away into matters relevant to the room you just left. This is why you often forget why you just walked into the kitchen.

Tag: psychological

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