Mulder: When someone has a memory of something that’s not shared by the majority or the factual record.
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"That's testimony to the strength to which we believe our own memories, that we would invent outlandish theories, just to maintain the illusion that our memories are accurate," Chabris said. It's human nature to create memories on the fly or to have false memories."Įven the wild theories that attempt to explain the movie's disappearance fit with the idea of false memories. "None of this is any criticism of people who have false memories, this is the way the mind works. "People are surprised to find out about false memories because they think that their memories are more objective than they actually are," Chabris said. One person who claims to remember Shazaam told the New Statesman that perhaps the explanation for the film's "disappearance" could be connected to the fact that we are living in a computer simulation.īut according to Chabris, a false memory that started with just one person and then spread is a much more likely explanation. "I am one of several people who specifically never saw Kazaam because it looked ridiculous to rip off Shazaam just a few years after it had been released," one anonymous Shazaam-believer told the New Statesman.ĭespite all evidence to the contrary, people still insist they remember Shazaam, even going so far as to suggest that it exists in a parallel universe or that our timeline has been changed retroactively and only some people realize the truth, reported the New Statesman. "A false memory is, you could think of it as an extreme example of the general phenomenon of memory distortion."Įven though the cover art on the Kazaam poster - a genie and a kid on a purple background - is eerily similar to what some Shazaam-truthers claim to remember from the Sinbad film, true believers maintain they were two separate movies that coincidentally came out around the same time. It's well known that this can happen."īut believers like Upton insist the Sinbad movie was real - and that they are not getting confused by Kazaam. "There are many experiments where researchers have deliberately created false memories. People who "have some kind of memory in there" are more likely to "combine the information," Chabris said. That Shaq movie could have planted a seed, pieces of a memory that "reconstructed" themselves into a false memory of Shazaam when people heard about a supposed-Sinbad genie movie. "Did people invent this Sinbad thing out of whole cloth? Of course they didn't, there's something very similar that did exist," Chabris said. This seems to have all the hallmarks of a simple memory distortion that results in the construction of a false memory."Ĭhabris thinks that many of the people who insist that they saw Shazaam may be confusing it with Kazaam , a 1996 film that starred Shaquille O'Neal as a genie who helps a child locate his father. "This S hazaam thing is a fairly simple example, or at least starts, with a fairly simple example of exactly that. "All memories, when we retrieve them, are constructed out of stuff that's been stored and is in our minds somehow," Chabris said. the natural state of memory is to continually change over time." "A false memory is, you could think of it as an extreme example of the general phenomenon of memory distortion," Christopher Chabris, co-author of The Invisible Gorilla and a professor of psychology who has researched false memories, said in a phone interview on Wednesday. And the hordes of people who say they've seen it could just be experiencing a collective false memory. The only problem is, much to the frustration of everyone who claims to remember it, there's no evidence that Shazaam was ever made. and they try and wish for their dad to fall in love again after their mother's passing, and Sinbad can't. "I remember two children accidentally summoning a genie. "I remember the name of the film as Shazaam," Upton said.
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