Alcotholic
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For real?
I can't tell if this is sarcasm.
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Madness Reigns; or, how our mutual misremembering drove my girlfriend and I insane
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I can't tell if this is sarcasm.
Finale Fireworker
Member
It's just for fun... You didn't have to read it. This is a thread about being accustomed to easily accessible information, the fallibility of memory, and how consequential something meaningless can seem when you're emotionally invested in the outcome. I'm sorry you didn't care for the exaggerated anecdote. I thought it would be fun for people to read. If you weren't enjoying it, you could have stopped.
There's no need to respond like this.
Didn't read op, so is this a joke take on the mandela effect?
Or a serious missremebering of the walking dead scene with humour thrown in, OP it's deffo from Walking Dead
Also what colour is the A-Team Van? Has that changed? Good luck finding out, cos it was All Black & Red before.
Or a serious missremebering of the walking dead scene with humour thrown in, OP it's deffo from Walking Dead
Also what colour is the A-Team Van? Has that changed? Good luck finding out, cos it was All Black & Red before.
Alcotholic
Banned
Yeah, even I can appreciate the artistry and thoughtfulness of the story even though I may have not enjoyed the story itself.
You need to relax. It was a fun little story.
FelixTheSexranger
Member
SO MUCH TEXT.
Summary please, somebody?
Summary please, somebody?
Finale Fireworker
Member
I mean, the whole point of the thread is the story.
But, if you insist, my girlfriend and I both remembered a scene from a movie called Grave Encounters that didn't happen. We expended a lot of energy to try to clear up our confusion. It is funny and embarrassing in retrospect. The OP is a dramatization of the event in a way that illustrates how seriously people can take even the most boring problems.
OP, I just wanted to tell you...I've been coming to this website fairly regularly for about four years now, and this is without a doubt the wittiest, most well-written account I've ever seen posted on this forum. I was genuinely laughing out loud at several points in your story, and absolutely adored every second of this. There was an almost staggering amount of wit and creativity in this, and the fact you managed to wring so much out of such a knowingly mundane, pedestrian subject was a real wonder.
Amazing job.
Amazing job.
JoJoShabadoo
Member
Plot twist
No joke, when I saw the title I assumed the thread would be about the Berenstain Bears
Draconestra
Member
So like, can anyone help OP solve this? I'm curious now.
FelixTheSexranger
Member
Thank you.
I went through and read whole OP. And I am glad I did that
, good stuff. Now I must see Grave Encounters.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I need to add a bit of my own, still ongoing experience. I remember, about 15-20 years ago watching a scene from a cheezy horror movie on TV, in which a villain (it was a woman) falls into the roller press of some kind, and yells profanities towards a detective that she was running away from. I clearly remember her telling him something like "Turn away you sissy, you don't have stomach to look at this" as she starts coughing blood, while being pulled into the press. In another story from (most likely) that same movie, a man goes to a smoke-quitting center that does weird psychological things to him and others who are there for the same reason. For example - they show them a video of people furiously smoking in an airplane cabin, and then cut to a shot of an airplane crashing into a mountain range.
Despite these being such iconic scenes to me, no one ever seems to have seen them (I've asked here and on other forums multiple times), and what's worse, there are several other similar scenes from other movies (like Quitters Inc. from Cat's Eye), which are not the same thing - that over the years I've started to question if I've ever actually seen what I've described above. There is one friend from around that time who I'm not really in contact with, who I think has seen this same movie together with me. I'm almost scared to ask him about it.
Despite these being such iconic scenes to me, no one ever seems to have seen them (I've asked here and on other forums multiple times), and what's worse, there are several other similar scenes from other movies (like Quitters Inc. from Cat's Eye), which are not the same thing - that over the years I've started to question if I've ever actually seen what I've described above. There is one friend from around that time who I'm not really in contact with, who I think has seen this same movie together with me. I'm almost scared to ask him about it.
Finale Fireworker
Member
Thank you both very much. I don't usually single out posts like these because it feels self-indulgent, but there were some really barbed posts on the last page and stuff like this softens their puncture.
Please stop trying to trick me into watching that movie. Can't you see I've been through enough? Have you no sympathy? I am vulnerable here, pigeon. I have a weak heart.
I do not write professionally. It's just something I really enjoy doing. I put 110% into my threads because I want people to enjoy reading them, even if they don't agree or can't relate. It doesn't always work, but I always try.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Well that would add a true supernatural twist, as OP hasn't actually seen it, it seems!
I've checked out GE2, scene where they enter into the same building still has the same "Death Awaits" painted on the door.
QuantumZebra
Member
QuantumZebra
Member
This was probably written as a joke but we could very well be a simulation.
shawnbuddy
Member
The smoking one is an episode of Tales From the Darkside, "Bigalow's Last Smoke."
hoverboarder
Member
Great post. Would read again. A post hasn't really sat with me since this one. I was starting to have trouble finding it, and almost found myself in your predicament.
Also, too lazy to go through every reply, but have you verified what they joke about in the movie if it's not "DON'T DEAD OPEN INSIDE"? Just because it's not on Netflix doesn't mean you can't buy the DVD/Blu of a movie you enjoy this much. And if you plan on checking this out, even down the line, please update the thread as it will now be in my subscriptions.
Also, too lazy to go through every reply, but have you verified what they joke about in the movie if it's not "DON'T DEAD OPEN INSIDE"? Just because it's not on Netflix doesn't mean you can't buy the DVD/Blu of a movie you enjoy this much. And if you plan on checking this out, even down the line, please update the thread as it will now be in my subscriptions.
shawnbuddy
Member
It was worse before the internet. There's this psychedelic nightmare from my childhood called the Polkaroo, a freaked out kangaroo thing that probably filled more than a few superhero Underoos in the 80s. That it appeared to people when they were alone and it was accompanied by a strange song was all I remembered. Now I can go on Wikipedia and read about how he's a recurring character from a boring Canadian kids show called The Polka Dot Door that was reaired on PBS. But for about 20 years it was just a niggling doubt about my sanity.
LowlySmokeGuy
Banned
jfc I check that thread out and see Amirox posting about a dream where he watched a boy jerk off for the first time. Dude had red flags everywhere.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Just the other day I've actually run into this in a who knows what attempt to find what I was looking for. A wikipedia has an entry for it, and reading it, it sounded exceptionally similar, but still not like a same thing - they made no mention of the frightening videos being played for example. I've watched it now, and it doesn't really seem like a same thing - I didn't see the airplane crashing into the mountain :\
It's really weird because what I've seen, seems like a total ripoff of Biggalow's Last Smoke, but it's not the same thing. In Bigallows Last Smoke, they even have a weird radio show where they talk about evils of smoking - exact same beat from the airplane scene I remember from whatever I saw. See it's things like this that made me question if I remember any of it right.
I will now look through the other episodes of Tales from the Darkside to see the rolling press episode was one of them.
I always wondered why they wrote it as
Don't Dead
Open Inside
Instead of
Don't Open
Dead Inside
Much easier to read, don't you think?
To the OP, are you sure you talked to someone? Are they even your friends? Your story kinda reminds me of Fringe, for some reason. Can you name some historical events that you remember that other people don't? Movies, TV shows, etc?
Don't Dead
Open Inside
Instead of
Don't Open
Dead Inside
Much easier to read, don't you think?
To the OP, are you sure you talked to someone? Are they even your friends? Your story kinda reminds me of Fringe, for some reason. Can you name some historical events that you remember that other people don't? Movies, TV shows, etc?
Chuckie
Member
Sometimes I hate this fucking forum.
Nice story OP. Very well written. Unfortunately people these days can only digest things the size of a fucking tweet.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Thread of 2017.
Seriously OP, it was well written despite the fact that it was about something so minor, you should consider writing a book.
Seriously OP, it was well written despite the fact that it was about something so minor, you should consider writing a book.
Hah, been there with my GF, and worse.
The most recent one being where my GF wanted to rewatch a movie she claims we saw together, but I had absolutely NO memory of what so ever. She swears up and down I saw it with her and I honest to god did not remember a single bit of it in the slightest.
She chalked it up to my problematic long term memory (which she's learned to deal with over the years as it gets worse and worse), but I swear, we really did not see it together. I guess we could have, since she makes me watch a lot of bad horror movies with her (bad horror is her favorite thing) and this was one of them, but not a second of it was familiar.
The most recent one being where my GF wanted to rewatch a movie she claims we saw together, but I had absolutely NO memory of what so ever. She swears up and down I saw it with her and I honest to god did not remember a single bit of it in the slightest.
She chalked it up to my problematic long term memory (which she's learned to deal with over the years as it gets worse and worse), but I swear, we really did not see it together. I guess we could have, since she makes me watch a lot of bad horror movies with her (bad horror is her favorite thing) and this was one of them, but not a second of it was familiar.
Orbis Tabula
Member
Man.
This was a good read. Felt like a goddamn mystery novel. Kudos on that, I was excited to find out what the hell was going on, and the Usual Suspects moment at the end really delivered.
Anyway, welcome to our alternate universe, OP and girlfriend.
This was a good read. Felt like a goddamn mystery novel. Kudos on that, I was excited to find out what the hell was going on, and the Usual Suspects moment at the end really delivered.
Anyway, welcome to our alternate universe, OP and girlfriend.
It was worse before the internet. There's this psychedelic nightmare from my childhood called the Polkaroo, a freaked out kangaroo thing that probably filled more than a few superhero Underoos in the 80s. That it appeared to people when they were alone and it was accompanied by a strange song was all I remembered. Now I can go on Wikipedia and read about how he's a recurring character from a boring Canadian kids show called The Polka Dot Door that was reaired on PBS. But for about 20 years it was just a niggling doubt about my sanity.
I think I saw this show like three times back in the '80s on PBS and I don't remember any of the characters, but I can sing you the goddamn theme song from start to finish. Earworm for the ages.
TheRedSnifit
Member
This is the greatest story I've read on GAF.
I forgive you for liking Bioshock.
I forgive you for liking Bioshock.
Haunted
Member
I had a clever retort ready to go but you were banned already
tonysidaway
Member
The best part about this story is the weird reactions in the thread.
I've got memories that I know are derived from dreams. I don't know they're false until I deduce this from a failure to be consistent with reality or (not so cool) I blurt out the memory in public. I once greeted an acquaintance by saying how pleasant it had been to meet his daughter in our previous meeting. He was childless and clearly a bachelor, and very freaked out.
I've got memories that I know are derived from dreams. I don't know they're false until I deduce this from a failure to be consistent with reality or (not so cool) I blurt out the memory in public. I once greeted an acquaintance by saying how pleasant it had been to meet his daughter in our previous meeting. He was childless and clearly a bachelor, and very freaked out.