The False Memory Effect – How Fake Memories Change Us
This is a fictional short story. However, the study referenced in the middle is based on a real study known as the “Lost In The Mall” experiment, which found that in the right conditions, we can assimilate or create entirely fake memories.
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@MelloGee33
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
What brought me to this particular video today was, I was having a conversation with a woman earlier about a recent fantasy/sci-fi weekend convention she was at. She said the actress Pam Grier was there and she met her. I was like, what are you talking about? Pam Grier passed away like 2-3 years ago. I remember it in the news. She's like…..uhhhh, no. She's still alive and well. I'm sitting there like a deer in the headlights having this Mandela moment. I could've sworn I seen and heard about her recent passing on TV and on the Internet. The memory is so insanely strong and vivid, that it's freaking me out. At first, I thought maybe I had mixed Pam Grier up with another older black American actress who had passed away within the last 2-3 years, but my brain keeps going back to her. I have zero explanation for this. Bizarre.
@henrikhyrup3995
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
I've had this happen recently, in fact only 2 days ago. I heard Maroon 5's song 'This Love' on the radio and when it ended the speaker called it "a song that defines the 00's" and I was like "no….?" I looked it up and it's from an album released in 2002…
….but I know – I vividly remember it being played back in the 90s. I lived at a boarding school from 1995-1997. A guy there set up a small radio station and one of the songs he played often was "This love". I'm absolutely positive of that, you cannot convince me otherwise!
@wisdomindABC
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
How do you write ✍️ so good scripts consistently… fantastic job guys
@Marlin123
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Here is somethibg I learned about myself: While struggling and being tortured by my OCD, the memory of me doing an action to reassure myself was being erased and questioned to give me more anxiety for me to do it again, making me question since then every memory I have.
Which means I my memories get questioned whenever they are something very iconic to remember, in which case I doubt it so much that I drop it as fact and go check again.
This is really bad when I need to remember numbers or names and it impairs my ability for short term memory.
@HenryCasillas
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
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@Lina0k0
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Nem todas as memórias falsas nos levam ao bom lugar. Durante minha infância passei por muitos traumas, mas um em específico se tornou uma memória falsa/modificada por longos anos da minha vida, o que me expôs a mais perigo, mas um dia durante 2020 essa memória revelou a sua nua e crua verdade, foi uma das piores coisas da minha vida e isso acabou comigo completamente, me levando ao mais puro desespero, mas pelo menos quando eu descobrir o que realmente aconteceu pude finalmente fugir daquela situação (uns 10 anos depois) e com certeza me poupar de mais sofrimento e me proteger
@MohamedYazid-bz2zd
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
I think this case of false memory and how it influences life events is very extreme.
@emoji_page
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
I would imagine false memories could do damage to our mental health especially as we age. When distinguishing between true and false memories might become more difficult to do as things become hazier and hazier potentially. So it makes better sense, especially in the long run, to be completely honest with ourselves. We shouldn't lie to others either.
@joenichols4580
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Delude your way into growth 🙏
@Marianna-js3ji
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
This idea that everyone can have False Memories is extremely harmful.
@sr2291
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
So what does this prove? I know for a FACT that I did not get lost in a mall as a child because there were no malls back then.
@serowhero-q1n
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Kind of unrelated but has anyone else had a dream when they were younger about one of their parents turning into grey ghosts and you couldnt go too close to them or else they would go forever? I did, and apparently my sister did as well. Im wondering if its one of those things that are common in younger children
@glatojr
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
bing soy
@Alamobe
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
I am pretty sure this has been done to me, especially when someone told me it happened and I was there. I just assume I forgot about it. If it is a pleasant memory, I keep it.
@meditatemoor
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
We
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Have
AI
@CMA-ATUL
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
I have some of such false memories of childhood. I realized they are false only when i started thinking about them from a scientific POV. They cant be true yet my brain convinced me that they are very true.
@axu6951
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Someone needs to delude me into thinking I have skills and talent I don't
@Campfire30
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
This scares me.
@sumanbarman8892
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Idk why but it's stiry
@aVerveQuest
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
This stuff happens quite a bit I'd bet. I know its happened to me
As a writer i often write short humorous bio pieces and bc of this recording o caught myself once. I also have memory of a MAJOR event that im now 50/50 on whether it happened even though ots a once in a life happening. Very odd/surreal when you're aware that ypu possibly created an incorrect memory
@historylover3018
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
It's like when Thomas Edison's mother lied to him and said the school dismissed him for his "intellegence".
@EchoFire711
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
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