• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

The Effect

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Status
Not open for further replies.
Sort by date Sort by votes

JohnEmmett

Well-Known Member
Jan 21, 2017
5,189
484
Salt Lake City
Visit site
✟147,079.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Buddhist
Marital Status
Celibate
the details of the world map are significant


I once remembered all United States and capitals, merely for an upcoming test


this Effect inspired me to survey the world map, I noticed changes


the most significant being New Zealand
 
Upvote 0

FrumiousBandersnatch

Well-Known Member
Mar 20, 2009
15,405
8,143
✟348,882.00
Faith
Atheist
JohnEmmett said:
"I know that I know nothing"


You don't know if memory is flawed.
Click to expand...
We know that memory, in general, is unreliable. There's plenty of well-controlled experimental data to support this. People unwittingly embellish, exaggerate, and merge memories; they can even be made to create personal memories that never happened. Every time you recall a memory it is reconstructed from fragments, and the way you reconstruct it can change it. Even so-called 'flashbulb' or 'snapshot' memories, vivid images of some experience, can change with recall.

That's not to say that all memories are completely unreliable, they normally contain the general gist or personal meaning of some event, but the details are not reliable - unless they are particularly memorable for some reason.

Here are some links you may find useful:

List of Memory Biases
How Much of Your Memory is True?
Memory Distortion & Invention
False Autobiographical Memories
Seven Sins of Memory
The Memory Doctor
How accurate are Memories of 9/11?
Memory is Unreliable - and it could be worse
 
Last edited:
Reactions: Freodin
Upvote 0

keith99

sola dosis facit venenum
Jan 16, 2008
23,110
6,800
72
✟376,840.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single

Even more important a shift on the North/South axis would resukt in a major change in the climate of New Zealand. If North of Oz then no glaciers on South Island, Mount Cook being snow capped would be a rarity. All the coal burning heaters in homes and businesses would not have existed.

Oh and the tourist flights going over the South Pole would generally have been from Oz, not New Zealand.

Do any Kiwis have such memories on New Zealand? I doubt it.
 
Reactions: Kylie
Upvote 0

JohnEmmett

Well-Known Member
Jan 21, 2017
5,189
484
Salt Lake City
Visit site
✟147,079.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Buddhist
Marital Status
Celibate
keith99 said:
Do any Kiwis have such memories on New Zealand? I doubt it.
Click to expand...

This timeline is the same as it ever was.

I shifted here from elsewhere.

I remember the previous location, that's all.
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0

keith99

sola dosis facit venenum
Jan 16, 2008
23,110
6,800
72
✟376,840.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single
JohnEmmett said:
This timeline is the same as it ever was.

I shifted here from elsewhere.

I remember the previous location, that's all.
Click to expand...

So were you ever in New Zealand? Do you have memories of how it was? Or do you just remember some map?

I was there. I have real meomries of what it was like. Also real memories of what Austrailia and Fiji are like. Were you in a world where Kiwis would travel to Australia if they wanted to go skiing instead of the other way round? Or do you just have an isolated memory of a map?
 
Upvote 0

JohnEmmett

Well-Known Member
Jan 21, 2017
5,189
484
Salt Lake City
Visit site
✟147,079.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Buddhist
Marital Status
Celibate
keith99 said:
do you just remember some map?

do you just have an isolated memory of a map?
Click to expand...

A photographic memory. Of Google Earth.

New Zealand… NE of Australia.

A week later… SE of Australia.
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Historicists Do Not Agree with Each Other
Replies
1
Views
447
Traditional Adventists-Discussion Zone
BobRyan
"Lord of Upper Egypt" – Set & the God of Joseph
Replies
8
Views
977
Christian History
Andrewn
  • Locked
Alternative Explanations for 'The Mandela Effect'
Replies
827
Views
26K
Non-Mainstream and Controversial Science
Hammster
L
The Gnostic New World Order
Replies
8
Views
2K
Christian Philosophy & Ethics
lifepsyop
L
Seeing Star Trek Deep Space 9 in dreams and visions long before it even aired
Replies
18
Views
1K
Science Fiction & Fantasy
timewerx
Menu
Log in
Register