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 This has been happening a lot lately and it sort of freaks me out, it ususally occurs when I am almost asleep but sometimes just when i am walking down the road. I remember something that happened to me, but only seconds later I realise "wait this never happened to me, this just happened in a movie" Recently i remembered a scene from Also I just recently was looking through some old notebooks of grade four and i DID gat fairly good grades, for some reason i had told myself i was a terrible student in grade four and now i don't know why i thought i was bad , matrixish 
Has anyone had experiance with this? or something like this? posted by Kupov |
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| in-my-opinion.orgMiscAnything that doesn't fit in any other categoryFake memories. |
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There's a phenomenon in psychology called "False Memory Syndrome," in which people who are undergoing particularly agressive forms of therapy will claim to "remember" childhood incidents that are later shown to have never happened. It's a problem with therapy and Freud's theory of the subconscious which has yet to be adequately adressed by the law. The British Royal College of Psychiatrists has taken a hard line against this phenomenon: Psychiatrists are advised to avoid engaging in any "memory recovery techniques" which are based upon the expectation of past sexual abuse of which the patient has no memory. Such...techniques may include drug-mediated interviews ["truth serum"], hypnosis, regression therapies, guided imagery, "body memories," literal dream interpretation, and journaling. There is no evidence that the use of consciousness-altering techniques, such as drug-mediated interviews or hypnosis, can reveal or accurately elaborate factual information about any past experiences, including sexual abuse. posted by holy_of_holies |
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 just to piggyback on holy's post... this is one aspect that i just studied for my psychology and law course. the chapter was on eyewitness testimony but dealt obviously with memory and then talked about false memories too and they mentionned some of the things holy showed us in his post but they called it "suggestibility techniques" where police interrogators, lawyers, psychologists or psychiatrists would (intentionnally or unintentionnally) ask certain questions in certain ways, or guide the conversation in a sort of direction that would lead the patient/suspect to falsely remember an event happening -- maybe early childhood sexual abuse for example and the person would in turn internalize these questions and create an event in their lives that happened to them even if it didn't. But this happens mostly to vulnerable people, people with a history of past abuse (drug/alcohol). they say this happens because these people are just searching for an answer of why they are feeling the way they are, like if they're depressed they might create this false memory to help explain their depression or drug abuse for example. and then they would truly beleive it happened to them even when it didn't. its really interesting...oh and i have to tell you guys about the Reid Technique of police interrogation too but i'll do that in another post when i have time... posted by gkiss |
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 Kupov: Has anyone had experiance with this? or something like this? I have that with dreams. Sometimes. I remember this conversation I had with one of my teammates. They thought the dream was real and went on thinking it was real for years and years (it was just a regular dream, no unicorns or 3 headed monsters). 
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