Like you get transported into an alternate universe where everything is almost same, but with tiny differences. The world looks normal to everyone and you’re the only one that have memories of the differences.
Do you think you would trust your memories or would you think you lost your mind?
Neither explicitly. I would seek more information. I would expect to be caught up in a The Leftovers type situation (2% of the world’s population inexplicably vanishes in an instant). That is to say, I would not expect to be the only one affected.
Either way, I would also seek evidence this person ever existed. If I’m truly the only one who remembers them, maybe the problem is with me. Logically speaking, I mean. There is a school of thought called “Last Thursdayism” that says that everything before last Thursday (or some abstract point in the near past) was invented by our brains. The break between short-term and long-term memory. The film Dark City plays upon this concept. (“Does anyone know how to get to Shell Beach?”)
Past a certain point, I’d be very careful who I speak to about something that seemingly I am the only person who believes differently from the rest of society.
Lost my mind
I already don’t trust my memories.
I would never stop until i figured out what happened.
Probably go crazy
The answer is: it doesn’t matter. It was real to us.
In modern America this is not a hypothetical situation.
I have the rule of never worrying about things I cannot change. So I would just move on with my life and trust that the person I was and will be is making the best decisions possible given the information and constraints of the time. YOLO
Assuming there’s nothing wrong with you, there must be something wrong with the universe
It would depend on the person for me. Like, I’ve got family I abstractly care about, but they’re not a very present part of my life, and they could probably vanish without me even noticing.
Then on the other end, completely removing all trace of my partner would be very noticible and distressing.
I need to watch the 4400 again
Reminds me of the The Lamp Story from ptooey Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oc7rc/comment/c3g4ot3/?context=3
Well ive had the dream where I had a wife (different person to who im with) kids, a job, full life kinda stuff for like the last 10 years and was really happy. Woke up and it all faded away. Made me sad but carried on with my day. So yeah i guess I’d probably just move on. Also just to clarify my life now is pretty good, so not like I lost anything really.
This is the movie Yesterday, where a failed musician gets knocked out and wakes up in a world where the Beatles never existed. A few other things too, but mainly the Beatles. Spoiler: he becomes a mega star.
I can’t imagine you could hallucinate a person in such detail and over such a long period of time that there would never be any indication they weren’t imaginary. I would trust my memories and question the circumstances of their disappearance.
You brain makes up the details in exactly the amount you need to. That is a core problem when your brain itself is the issue.
I would assume it was Superboy Prime again
