memories

An employee of mine (who I will call "Vinton") is a truther and lurks on this forum. "Vinton" sent me an e-mail giving an explanation why William Rodriguez's has changed his story so many times. I have tried to get "Vinton" to post his claim on this forum but he refuses therefore I am posting...

Possibly not the right forum for this topic, but couldn't find anything closer. My daughter and her boyfriend just returned home to Australia after nearly two years in London. He had a Pit Bull Terrier he obviously had not seen for this time. I imagined a painful reunion where he would have to...

Alright, I have to first say that I no longer believe in this theory I made when I was rather young, but it still bothers me. I thought the skeptics here could have a little fun ripping this to shreds, honestly I've never gone too deep into studying it... never found the need to really. For me...

hi all, sorry if this had been done, but i thought it would be fun to hear people's formative memories...sort of "when did you become skeptical?" for me, the first thing that sticks in my head is very innocuous, but i guess it often starts that way. it was a commercial for an otc drug- i think...

If you follow the Forum Community threads, you'll find my more emotional posts there. I will cross link these as I get them all together. I will also post a thread in the Science forum, as I get time. So, anyway, my wife's grandmother died this weekend. She was in the last stages of...

Interesting summary of a new book out that studied memory processes in relation to weird beliefs, in particular those who are convinced they've been abducted by aliens: Link to article

In this thread Winter expresses some memories from the age of 2-3. I am just blown away. My earliest memories are from 5th grade, which means I was about 10 years old. And these are vague and I seriously doubt have much to do with reality (whatever THAT means). Do people have memories from...

Maybe it's the margarita talkin.

A long time ago I took a basic Psych course. There I learned that some believe that certain traumatic experiences become forgotten or repressed, and may reemerge later in life, when the person is capable of dealing with them. Later I read that that notion has been largely discredited, that...