I basically chalk it up to innaccurate memory.
Some of the examples are easily dismissed as such, others are actually pretty interesting.
Though not a conspiracy theory it’s in that wacky realm except it’s pretty harmless entertainment.
I have to admit to having similar experiences and the explanation of memories of closely related alternate timelines is kind of fun.
I know I’ve seen previews for movies due to come out that I swear I watched two years earlier.
Of course had some deja Vu
And remember exciting events or people in my life that nobody else involved remembers even in the slightest.
Anyone have any experiences that would fall into this ? Regardless if whether you actually think it does, just , things that some of the people who do would cite as evidence.
Feel free to posit your own theories, comment on the ridiculousness or plausibility of the theory, share an experience that others would relate to it, or whatever.
As far as I’m concerned it’s in the realm of useless speculation no matter what so …
Signals can get formed imperfectly in the neurons that are responsible for the memories, and overlap with other memories. It is very easy for people to conflate things that have some similarity to them just because of the chemistry/biology involved. When people are absolutely sure of a memory they had, it’s because that’s the memory they have, but there’s no prima facie reason why their memory should match reality; evolution has favored systems that enable memories to be recalled with great precision, but the systems used to store those memories are not perfect. Knowledge survives much easier when on a physical substrate as opposed to being encoded in an organic brain, which is why writing was a major accelerator of the development of civilization. The fact that much of our knowledge is now being stored in formats that are not physically accessible without very advanced technology is sometimes a bit of a concern to archivist-types.
That’s a very specific description of the details of memory making. It goes way beyond anything I’ve read about the state of our knowledge of how memories are formed, although I have to admit I haven’t read much. Do you have some good cites for that? Or is “imperfectly formed signals” just pop-sci nonsense?