Here's another example of this: when Neil Armstrong stepped out on the Moon (taking that for granted), what he said was not, as it's popularly portrayed, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." But what he
really said was "That's one small step for
a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Like I said, this is not evidence that excludes other possibilities, like that people are just not remembering or interpreting what they hear correctly.
It is not just the memory that's fallible, but the whole way the brain processes what's coming into it. The two horizontal lines in this image are actually 100% straight and parallel to each other:
But because of the way your brain interprets what your eyes are seeing, those two horizontal lines look like they curve around the center point. This is an example of the fact that
the human brain does not always interpret sensory input in a realistic way. There are lots of different examples of the brain misrepresenting colors, positions of objects, or even somehow not being able to see things that are right in front of them until they are pointed out by others.
The same is true for at least two other senses besides sight: hearing and touch. The brain matches the sounds it hears to familiar patterns, especially in the case of language, and when you listen to someone talk you are not actually processing every single word.
I doubt you'll watch the whole 10 min video above, but anyway here's a shorter video with more interesting but less relevant examples of audio illusions:
I think it's probably not a coincidence that all three of these examples involve movie characters that are using altered voices and/or an unusual rhythm and inflection in their voice. The Queen in Snow White is speaking rhyming poetic lines in a dramatic manner, Tom Hanks has an artificial southern accent playing a mentally challenged man in Forest Gump, and Darth Vader has an obviously altered voice as well. In the Neil Armstrong example I mentioned above, his voice was also very clouded by static in the transmission, with unusual acoustics, and was not a natural human voice. Combine that with how the brain hears things, how it remembers (or rather paraphrases) speech that it heard previously, and it is not at all surprising that things sometimes don't go into or come out of the brain accurately.
You're not getting my point. What you posted is 100% just as much evidence for what
I'm saying it means, as it is for what
you're saying that it means. Your explanation for this stuff in no way rebuffs an alternate explanation like the one I'm making. In others you have not actually proven anything, because you have not excluded other possibilities.
So basically you are saying that I don't want to believe that realities are shifting and so I'm in denial of your evidence. I really suspect that you didn't real my full post because most of it was talking about how I do in fact play with the idea of there being parallel realities that are possible to experience. If I was in denial about the whole idea of all of this then I wouldn't have posted that stuff, would I?
I don't think debunking would even apply in this case because there is nothing to debunk. Trying to disprove the idea would be trying to prove a negative, which is generally not possible. That would be like trying to disprove that I won't die at the age of 97. No one has proven that I'll die at that age in the first place, any more than they've proven that I'll die next year or at any other age. The same is true with the explanation that you are arguing, about realities shifting being proven by these movies. It doesn't exclude other possibilities, like just bad recall. I know you say that 'can't be' what it is, but I don't see any actual reason why not.
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