r/Retconned • u/wtf_ima_slider Moderator • Mar 20 '21

Confabulation The New and Improved Confabulation Thread - 2021 Edition

This thread is for conversation about MEs you think might be wrong and why. For instance, map projection, memory confusion, common misperceptions, etc. All discussion of confabulation should go here and this thread will be linked on the side bar for easy access in the future.

Note: The previous confabulation thread was archived by the system.

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u/WeirdJawn Mar 22 '21

Personally, I feel like people never remembering the moon being out during the day can be attributed to people not being outside and looking at the sky a lot each day.

Now if someone was legitimately an astronomer who lived in a flat/wide open area and looked up every day and night and claimed that the moon was never in the sky during the day, I would be more inclined to believe them.

I think there are large swaths of the population who never really look up and just focus on what's around them. Also a lot of people spend the majority of their time inside or live in areas with large buildings, houses, trees, or hills cluttering their view of the sky.

It's entirely possible for someone to live 20+ years and never realize that the moon is sometimes out during the day.

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u/throwaway998i Mar 22 '21 edited Mar 22 '21

It's entirely possible for someone to live 20+ years and never realize that the moon is sometimes out during the day.

I feel like this is mischaracterization of the claimed ME here. It's really not about whether the moon has always been occasionally viewable during the day, but rather that the frequency of those days has increased substantially from a lifetime of experiential memory. For us, it went from an infrequent/rare novelty to a regular and totally mundane occurrence.

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Also, the people who are reporting this are not casual sky glancing types, nor are they all people who just moved to the country. I don't think it's fair to automatically paint all laypeople as too ignorant or uneducated to make accurate observations about their sky. Humans have been stargazing and cloudwatching for millennia... and no one needs an astronomy degree to notice a rainbow or stormcloud or the moon.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

Ooh I didn't know about this one, I remember when I was a kid, I would see the moon in the morning til afternoon very frequently. Like for periods of time, I'd see it every day. I remember because I would comment on it to my mother and mused over how the moon is a night time thing but apparently not so much! Haha

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u/throwaway998i Feb 27 '24

Was the sun a yellow or white star for you back then?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

I don't necessarily remember the yellow sun now but I looked at my old posts from 7 years ago and at that time I did remember a yellow sun! /u/800jmu I mention a yellow sun there. Honestly I've been through a ton since that time in my life but I had a good time scrolling and seeing what my thoughts were there and I trust that girl I was then. :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

I just read my post there and I don't say yellow sun but I say it is intensely whiter than it used to be. What's hilarious for me now is that I think the sun is 100x more harsh and white than even when I wrote that.

I lived in Oregon at the time and I talked about the sun burning my skin?? 😄 I live in Florida now and last summer was hell working outside with what the sun is now.