False memories -- the uncontroversial kind

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This weekend my sister said how much she likes the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and then thanked me for getting her into them before they were big, about 12 years ago.

There are so many things wrong with this i don't know where to start. But MAINLY it is that i have NEVER shown ANY interest in that band EVER. She was quite certain about this though, and I am left imagining that she is confusing me with her other brother... that she doesn't have.

Bah. It was quite baffling to have something like that attributed to you when you are more than certain it couldn't be the case. Happened to anyone else?

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

(obv not the specifics about the RHCP, I mean has something LIKE this happened to you)

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

you mean like with primus, maybe?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

This happens ALL THE TIME round mine, as M has a) a crap memory, and b) a default state of thinking I'm wrong.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

i have a real memory about primus! i overheard the boy i loved in high school say 'primus' once, so i went out and bought a primus album. he would probably deny ever having influenced me to buy it, so think about that alan!

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

i vividly recall mum s once saying "when i wz a hoped that adult life would be lying on a bed all day reading vogue and drinking creme de menthe"

she vehemently denies ever saying any such thing: "mark s, i *hate* creme de menthe!!"

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

The legendary one in our family which I may have mentioned here before is the child cruelty incident when my parents went to a dinner party and left me and my brother in the back of the car (a v drafty beetle) with a blanket. They claim that as they couldn't find a babysitter they took us to their friends' house, put us to sleep in a bedroom and carried us down to the car afterwards and that is what we have remembered. Me and my brother are convinced they just left us there. (though this does seem highly unlikely and out of character.)

― Emma, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Alan is surpressing his latent rockist tendencies

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, I'm convinced that I went to the revolving restaurant in the post office tower with my sister and my gran when I was very young. Everyone in my family diputes this and says I must have dreamt it, yet it as real to me as the human size bunny I saw waving at me from the top of the stairs (see thread entitled: childhood weirdness). However, I am ready to admit that I didn't really dream the Empire Strikes Back in 3D before it came out at the cinema.

But, I've not read the thread properly, I'm always having people say "but you really liked band X!" and I'm always strongly denying it.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yesterday I was talking about the Wilco documentary with my girlfriend and how I was excited that it was coming out so we could finally see it, and she said, "Oh, we've already seen it." She kept describing things she remembered from it, like scenes in a recording studio, arguments with the label, etc. which is madness because we haven't seen it! At first she was saying we had watched it at home, and I was like "Ah ha! But it just came out on dvd today! How could we have seen it at home?" so then she just said we had seen it in the theater. It was crazy. Finally she admitted she was probably just confused.

On a more serious note, one time when I was about 13, my sister and I were on a road trip with our mom, and she told us that she had been married briefly when she was young before she married our dad. My sister was excited and asked lots of questions but I just felt vaguely ill and laid down in the back seat. We never talked about it again, and to this day, I'm not sure if it really happened. It's not a big deal to me, but sometimes I wonder about it. I could ask her, but I'd rather not.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

my brother has been trying to convince me i once watched Universal Soldier with him for over 8 years. as if. i have still never seen it.

and i just KNOW i haven't seen it. but he won't accept it. GAAAAAH. he is adamant that this happened. *shrug*

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

My sister still insists that she remembers the weekend when we were still in high school when my parents were away that she made a cake and then dropped it off the overpass onto the highway. THIS NEVER HAPPENED. We just watched videos that weekend and a couple of friends stopped by. But nobody did anything as luny as what she is claiming. Why would anyone do this anyway, wtf? I blame mentalism.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

The reason I haven't been to any FAPs is because of that one where Mark S was DJing and played "Sy Borg" 12 times in a row

― dave q, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

(unless I'm just confusing that party with something else altogether!)

― dave q, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have been *accused* of recommending the Pink album to two different people. I’ve never heard the damn thing (obviously) and doubt that I would recommend it EVEN IF I HAD.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have read The Great Gatsby three times because before starting times 2 and 3, I'd forgotten I'd read that lightweight bit of nonsense already. Then I always proceed to conflate the film with The Way We Were, which is actually a really good film.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

My mother insists that when I was little her and I would do duets to Captain and Tenille songs. I deny this.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I would too.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Muskrat Love.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

My mother insists that there were free-running monkeys playing in the trees in a park in Halifax, Niova Scotia when she was kid.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

It was probably my uncle in a monkey suit.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

I always used to relay a memory of eating roast beef and watching "Doctor Who" at the same time to my two sisters and they always accused me of lying. Is this such a unbelievable memory?

― Mandee, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have an odd memory of going to one of my dad's friend's house and seeing in the back garden a really big cage with an actual monkey in, swinging about. I want to believe I saw an actual monkey in someone's back garden, but I am not totally sure if I really did.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

i saw a UFO once, playing football in the back yard with my best friend, we ran inside to tell my dad and get the camera but we came back out and it was too late, they both deny that anything of the sort ever happened

it was pink and whirring

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

it was pink and whirring

sure that wasn't the hello kitty vibrator?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

and then you found out that Barry Williams was secretly hiding in your attic bedroom with a kazoo and a flashlight.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

I used to fight at my bedroom door with a disembodied hand shortly after I'd gone to bed. It happened in my old house, then followed me to my new one (when I was young). It happened, though, it's a REAL memory, I swear.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's something very wrong with my particular brain, as it seems to store dream-memories, real-memories, and where-the-hell-did-that-come-from?-memories all in the same file; such that I really honestly have some trouble knowing for sure which of my memories ever actually happened.

These memorieeees can't WAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIITTT!!!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mark is Ash from Evil Dead. Awesome.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

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