It starts off simple enough, a guy goes back to a restaurant he’s been going to for years. Same place, same memory, nothing unusual. Except when he gets there, nobody recognizes him. The owner doesn’t know him, the staff are different, and it’s like his entire history with the place just… didn’t happen.
From there it moves into this bigger idea that reality might not be as stable as we think. Not in a “sci-fi movie” way, but more like: what if memory isn’t reliable, what if timelines aren’t as fixed as we assume, and what if people sometimes notice small “errors” that don’t line up with how things are supposed to be?
It also brings in Philip K. Dick and John C. Lilly was both real people who seriously questioned perception and consciousness. Lilly especially went deep into isolation tank experiments and heavy psychedelic use, and came out with ideas that basically suggest reality might be influenced by something we don’t understand.
Now obviously, the normal explanation is: false memory, coincidence, psychological bias, pattern-seeking brain, etc. And that’s probably the correct answer most of the time. But I think what makes this video stick is that it doesn’t try too hard to prove anything. It just sits in that uncomfortable space where you start asking yourself how sure you actually are about your own memory of things.
Anyway, I’m curious how other people see this. Is it just the brain doing what it always does and filling in gaps or are some of these glitch stories more interesting than we give them credit for?
by FemaleAminator
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Merging and crossing timelines is not rare. Mandela effects are a byproduct of that.
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I’ve believed for years now that time is not linear, and is not in fact a “thing.” Time is a construct, more accurately described as “duration” or sometimes “distance.”
We need to think far more clearly about concepts like sequence and causation; while we’re at it we might consider the notion of linguistic precision as well.
OP: one reason, I think, why the video is so unsettling is the truly creepy way in which the visual of the narrator is processed. That kind of filter would make wholesome puppy videos disturbing.