Bizarre Memories That Just Had To Be Shared
The mind is an odd thing. Our brains have a habit of either misremembering things, or simply inventing completely false memories out of thin air. Sometimes, though, our brains aren’t playing tricks on us – our weird memories really did happen.
Here are some bizarre things that people remember, which may or may not have really happened.
Last Visit From a Friend
They say kids have wild imaginations, but… When I was about 6 years old I was jumping on the trampoline on a nice warm day. My best friend (7) came walking over and hopped on.
I asked him how he got there and he said he walked (which was weird because his parents would never let him walk along the 2 mile stretch of highway between our homes). We laughed, played, he reminded me we were best friends and I jokingly said ‘DUH’.
I went inside to get us some otter pops and when I came back out he was gone. I went inside and started looking for him and that’s when my sister came over to me, crying. My friend who I was JUST playing with had apparently been hit HOURS earlier by a drunk driver and was pronounced dead on the scene.
His dad was in critical condition. I could not possibly have been jumping/talking with him that day, but I remember that entire day so vividly.
A Child’s Paradise
My brother managed to get his head stuck in the scrollwork of an iron/wood banister at a hotel, and in the ensuing panic I wandered off to this wonderful place where there was a table full of cookies and candy.
As I’m eating the cookies and the candy and whatever I can find – some really angry adult yells at me, picks me up and carries me out of this amazing room filled with sweets.
I was about 3 or 4 years old. I think I crashed a wedding or a bar mitzvah’s dessert table while my brother was bI was about three or four years old.
Now that I’m older, I think I know exactly what that magical place was—I think I crashed a wedding or a bar mitzvah’s dessert table while my brother was being extracted from the banister. It was amazing, but my parents claim it never happened.
Hair-Raising
When I was about 10 I was at my aunty and uncles house in Sydney for Christmas and my cousin who’s a hairdresser PERFECTLY straighten my crazily curly long hair, which takes over an hour.
One of my presents that morning was new pyjamas and I put them on and went to walk out into the garden to show my mum my new pyjamas and tripped and fell into their pool, soaking my new PJ’s and ruining my perfectly straight hair (to my cousins dismay).
I literally have such a vivid memory of it happening but I brought it up to my mum once and she doesn’t remember it, so I have always questioned myself.
Graveyard Visitors
4 year old me sleeping next to a big picture window and two long windows on either side able to be open. Fell asleep and woke up to what seemed to be two men just looking at me through the darkness.
The windows backed out onto our back deck and I remember the people knocking on the window and motioning. I was completely frozen in fear and just closed my eyes and fell back asleep.
Not sure if it was a dream or real. I should also mention my childhood home backed onto a graveyard for the town so weird things seemed to happen often.