Reminds of the Mandela effect sort of. I know they were the Berenstein Bears and Kit-Kat bars had the dash and it was Looney Tunes and Oscar Meyer hotdogs!!! Have you seen that movie Yesterday? That was good too! So I am an Orthodox Christian and they are big on Memory Eternal and I do understand somewhat but I have never wanted to be remembered for anything. No one knows the real me but God every single person I know has an idea of who they think I am but it is not the complete me so they can keep their thoughts I think and I’ll be happy if my Creator remembers me! 😊
Nice column! All this talk of memory, images, and crimes got me thinking of a splendid book called Picking Cotton, which details the story of a woman that helped, through eye-witness testimony, get am innocent man convicted. He was eventually exonerated because of DNA evidence. She befriended him and spends a lot of her time warning others about the issues with eye witness testimony, memory sucks.
Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the column. My apologies for the delay in replying: I decided to take the long weekend off and have only just got back to Substack. I'm not familiar with the book, so many thanks for alerting me to it. Eyewitness behaviour used to be my area, once upon a time. It's always good to get up to date with it.
A clever title for a book! I probably should read it - I wonder how much it will feel like work... I'd be very happy to have a chat about eyewitnesses some time. I might need to refresh my own memory of the area first! First, I have something on Jeffrey Dahmer to polish a bit...
Reminds of the Mandela effect sort of. I know they were the Berenstein Bears and Kit-Kat bars had the dash and it was Looney Tunes and Oscar Meyer hotdogs!!! Have you seen that movie Yesterday? That was good too! So I am an Orthodox Christian and they are big on Memory Eternal and I do understand somewhat but I have never wanted to be remembered for anything. No one knows the real me but God every single person I know has an idea of who they think I am but it is not the complete me so they can keep their thoughts I think and I’ll be happy if my Creator remembers me! 😊
Nice column! All this talk of memory, images, and crimes got me thinking of a splendid book called Picking Cotton, which details the story of a woman that helped, through eye-witness testimony, get am innocent man convicted. He was eventually exonerated because of DNA evidence. She befriended him and spends a lot of her time warning others about the issues with eye witness testimony, memory sucks.
Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the column. My apologies for the delay in replying: I decided to take the long weekend off and have only just got back to Substack. I'm not familiar with the book, so many thanks for alerting me to it. Eyewitness behaviour used to be my area, once upon a time. It's always good to get up to date with it.
Upon seeing this reply, my memory reminded me that there was an article about the book, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/04/how-eyewitnesses-can-send-innocents-to-jail.html
It is vital to take time off.
That is really interesting re eye witness. Would enjoy having a chat about it sometime.
A clever title for a book! I probably should read it - I wonder how much it will feel like work... I'd be very happy to have a chat about eyewitnesses some time. I might need to refresh my own memory of the area first! First, I have something on Jeffrey Dahmer to polish a bit...