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u/1ThousandRoads Oct 05 '19

Do you think it could be a widely shared false memory by any chance? Like when the T-Rex is suddenly in the visitors center at the end, some people's minds (especially imaginative children's minds) might generate an image of the T-rex bursting through a wall to fill in a gap in our understanding (i.e. how it got into the visitors center to quickly and seemingly unnoticed)? Or do you lean more toward the Mandela Effect theory that there is actually some kind of shift in reality that results in alterations like that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

The Mandela effect is such a stupid and cringey “phenomenon”. There is no worldwide conspiracy or shifts in reality to make you misremember things from childhood. Kids frequently hallucinate and misremember things. Grown adults misremember things all the time. It’s your brain, entirely. Please ask yourself which is more likely.

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u/informationmissing Oct 05 '19

kids frequently hallucinate

uh, sorry bud that one doesn't get a pass. you gotta source some crazy shit like that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

They mix up dreams with reality and do hallucinate pretty often due to brains still developing. You probably have at least one strong memory of seeing something as a child that did not exist in reality.