[text] there's so many generic pop punk angst lyrics i could use for this tbh

[frostythehitman]

I'm taking a poll here, because I have no idea what to make of all these hallucinomemories.

Is anyone else remembering stuff from actual history? As in, straight out of the textbooks. I wasn't sure of it until I got my history final back, but there's a few questions on there that I didn't know the answer to and had to guess on, based on what I remembered. And I got them all right.

And if anyone else is remembering real history: are all of your hallucinomemories real? Because I'm pretty sure mine are a mix of real history and a bunch of crap they threw in just to mess with me.

Comments

[true_noir]

I am remembering history, yes, but it isn't a real history. I've been searching for Ulgia on every map of Europe I can find, and it simply doesn't exist.

I do not know that any of them are real, but some are closer to our world than others. Whatever would 'mess with us' better.

[frostythehitman]

"Ulgia"? How do you know it's supposed to be history if it never even existed?

[originallutece]

I think it would be a mistake to treat any of our hallucinomemories as false, no matter how outlandish. Simply because something appears impossible doesn't mean it's so.

Why, what precisely are you recalling?

[frostythehitman]

Yeah right. I'd believe that, if I weren't getting real memories and obviously fake ones too. I can't just treat them like they're both real.

If I wrote down "and also there were Nazi vampires in Belgium" on my test, my teacher would have me sent to the school counselor.

[prometheanflame]

It's not what most people would consider history, but I remember being in an airport that I can only describe as Very Eighties.

But other than that, there's not reason that I'm remember actual history, unless we all had superpowers in the past.

[frostythehitman]

The 80s were like almost 40 years ago. It counts as history. Anything interesting happen at your 80s airport?

[wordcarvings]

I'm not certain if they are real or not, but one that I had was of studying under one of the people who were part of making Mount Rushmore and considering him my Master, and another one involved the early days of the Seitosha, which was a prominent feminist collective in Japan that was in involved in the women's liberation movement and was founded 1911.

But on the other hand, there are others that make no sense in historical context.

[frostythehitman]

Being part of Mount Rushmore's construction and a Japanese feminist collection already doesn't make any sense. How much weirder could the rest of it possibly get?

[browbeater]

i'm not remembering any history-- if anything, i'm remembering stuff that seems like it's from the comics.

it also feels a little weird pointing this out... but for like the past month, i forgot that anything weird was happening at all. that in and of itself screams that something is wrong.

[frostythehitman]

Oh, I know all about remembering stuff from comics. Trust me.

What do you mean you forgot, though? You forgot your hallucinomemories and then remembered them again?

[sotenbori]

does using a pager count

[frostythehitman]

What the hell's a 'pager'?

[ James is 16 and I'm so sorry. ]

[vendettastool]

I wouldn't call it history even if it felt like I was living in a documentary.

[frostythehitman]

Why's that?

[commandertoolbelt]

maybe you just do textbook osmosis better than the rest of us

does mythology count as history?
because that's what i remembered

[frostythehitman]

Please, if it was textbook osmosis I'd be getting good grades across the board. Also, I'm pretty sure there isn't a single history textbook anywhere that talks about fighting Nazi vampires.

What kind of mythology?

[youraffection]

wait these things can help us in school?
shit
i havent learned anything thats actually useful
so no not really
what real history r u talking about?

[frostythehitman]

World War 2. My final had some extra credit questions about the eastern front. I'm pretty sure we never actually studied those in class, but I remember being there in person.

I didn't know I was remembering something that actually happened until I saw "Operation Uranus" on the test and realized that was the same name as the operation I remembered being on.

[burningblossoms]

[Hello underclassmen who I've been meaning to tag for months and failed at]

Not to my knowledge.

All of my hallucinomemories seem to be of a time within the last twenty years. Mostly in Japan, or a place with Japanese road signs.

[frostythehitman]

So, Japan then.

Is it a real place in Japan, or like a fictional Japan?

[belligerentwarrior]

lucky you. everything i've gotten's had no context. just chocobos and things out of some twisted creature feature. sure as hell didn't look real, but hurt real enough.

[frostythehitman]

Sounds about right. I've only got some of the context--and even when I do it still doesn't make sense. Some of what I remember actually matches the wiki articles and everything, and then some of it is straight out of a crappy B movie.

Are you saying you actually remember chocobos? Like, not from when they replaced all the horses?

[liberal_arts]

-...-

That does seem a little strange. I suppose I do have some, myself, but they raise more questions than I am currently willing to answer.

[frostythehitman]

You mean like any other memory or thing Retrospec's dumped on us?

More questions than we can answer is pretty standard by now.

[livingdeadgirl]

can't help you there
I'm an alien apparently

[frostythehitman]

What's that supposed to mean?

slides in here a million years late

[crushcard]

I seem to be remembering a parallel universe of current times, except that technology is about a thousand times more advance considering that there's fully immersive 3-D VR technology.

More immersive than VR goggles and Google Glass.

it's alright i'm backtagging a million years late too

[frostythehitman]

And let me guess: everyone's too absorbed in their VR worlds to connect with reality and one another?