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Originally Posted by bart5050
This is a well known phenomenon in the media world
So there are cases where ancedotal evidence is considered proof. I don't think anyone would argue that music can influence mood.
However from reinforcing vague fears and changes in mood it is a speculative leap unfounded by proof that this causes a later in life abduction memory.
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Again I will tell you that this is a well-known phenomenon to people who work inside the media. Film directors have been using subconscious implanting methods on their audiences for many decades. I used the technique when I made documentary films. This is why the Nazis made documentaries in the 1930s showing scenes of rats and certain kinds of people. They made the audiences associate the people with rats. After a few years of this, every time people in Germany saw that type of person, they thought of rats.
Out of an audience of 1,000 people, I could make a dozen or so of them fear and loathe Shirley Temple, if I made a documentary about her and included a lot of scenes of rats. Adults can generally remember where they first saw such images, but kids under about 10 years old often can’t remember. Kids aged 2 through about 7 or 8 are likely not to remember. If I showed a bunch of kids a documentary about Shirley Temple, and included a lot of scenes of rats, many of them would go through their adulthood disliking Shirley Temple and not wanting to see Shirley Temple films, although they might not know why or remember why.
My point was that an “abduction memory” is only one of the many kinds of “repressed false memories” that a person can experience in life. Other people might think they were beaten as a child, when all that really happened was that, as a child, they saw a movie about some kid being beaten.
Back in the 1950s, “reincarnation” stories were very popular in the US, because of the book “The Search for Bridey Murphy”. Hundreds of people in the US reported to the media that they “knew” they had been “reincarnated” because they could “remember” some details about their “past life.”
But it turns out that some psychologists and psychiatrists who interviewed such “reincarnated” people, were able to learn that their false memories were based on some movie they saw as a kid. They didn’t really live in Ireland in the 18th Century, but as a young child they saw a movie about people living in Ireland in the 18th Century. They weren’t really in love with “a ghost named Cathy” in a “previous life”, they just saw the movie “Wuthering Heights” when they were 4 years old. Etc., etc.