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That 'deja vu' feeling everyone calls a glitch might just be bad memory
Last week, I was sure I left my keys on the kitchen counter in my apartment, but they were in my jacket pocket from the day before. People post stuff like that here all the time saying reality shifted. But three years ago, I started writing down little things I was sure about, and I was wrong a lot. Maybe our brains just fill in gaps with what feels familiar. Has anyone else tried keeping a simple log before calling it a glitch?
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taylor.phoenix4mo ago
My friend Sarah called me last summer ABSOLUTELY freaking out because she drove past a diner on her way to work that she "knew" had been a laundromat for years. She pulled over and went inside, asked the owner how long they'd been there. He said twenty three years. She started keeping a log that day, and here's the thing - she found three other notes in her own handwriting from different times where she was SURE something had changed, but it never had. One was a billboard she swore was blue but was actually green, another was a neighbor's dog she remembered as a lab but was a golden retriever. She told me the log actually made her feel worse, like her own brain was gaslighting her on the regular.
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rileyjones5mo ago
Forget the log, that's just tracking your own mistakes. I'm talking about the times you know something changed for real. Like a whole building on your street that you swear wasn't there last week, or a song lyric everyone remembers wrong. Your brain might mess up where your keys are, but it doesn't invent entire details out of thin air. Those big, solid memories that don't match up feel totally different from just being forgetful. Writing it down doesn't explain why sometimes the world itself seems to flip for a second.
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