You’re about to enter one of the weirder sides of my research.
As much as I detest the fact that just about everything I write about I feel the need (or the need is really there) to explain it, I am not going to go into much detail about the history involved in this particular category of this blog. I will give it a brief paragraph of explanation, the rest, follow the links and learn more about it elsewhere. My primary reason for doing it this way, I don’t want to fall into a rabbit hole that has absolutely no potential what-so-ever (at least that can be perceived by me) to ever be fully vetted. This is something you either accept or throw out as garbage. I simply accept it to be true, based on observation and my own memories.
The “Berenst#in Bears Problem” stems from a change in historical documentation of particular events. In my mind, I recall the cartoon as being titled “Berentein Bears”, in other people’s minds and in all “official” documentation, the title is “Berenstain Bears”. One could easily dismiss this as being a bad memory function for some of us, if there wasn’t other such occurrences during our lifetimes that stand out as memory anomalies. There are many theories on how this occurred and many other recollections that are sworn to be “true”, but are in fact, completely wrong, based on current historical documentation. Furthermore, once you read into this and get a better understanding, this document itself will become useless at some point in time because the document will change when the phenomenon occurs again in the future, which in turn, will change history and thus, anything that is documented in this universe will be changed accordingly, instantaneously, without anyone really knowing, and if the author of said document travels to the different universe, their recollection will be of the original document, but if that author doesn’t move to the different universe, their memories will be changed. Whew. Confusing as hell. It’s even harder to put it on paper.
Here’s a good starting point for more information: http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2015/01/21/the-berenstin-bears-problem-are-we-living-in-an-alternate-worldline/
Now, for my first example.
This is a memory that I recall as vividly as possible, considering the amount of time that has passed. This memory is as clear to me as any other memory from the same era (1970s).
When I was a kid, there’s various T.V. shows that stand out in my mind as being those that my father and I used to watch together. Very strong memories in deed. First, “CHiPs” comes to mind, as does “Sanford and Son” and “Chico and the Man”. I say this without researching to find out if any details that I recall are different than what’s been documented. That being the case, I will continue to not go to IMDB and do any research, so if you want to sit down and chat with me some day, at least for these three shows, we can do so and you can research as you pick my brain and then we can analyze what, if anything, is different in my mind from that which is documented or that you remember.
I bring the above mentioned shows to your attention because I want to use those as indicators for memory recollection of the time period. During this time period, there were several other shows I used to watch, such as “Adam 12”, “The Six Million Dollar Man”, “Emergency”, “Baa Baa Blacksheep” and the point of this particular example, “High Sierra”. If you do an IMDB search of “High Sierra”, in this particular universe, you *should* find that “High Sierra” was a Robert Conrad show in the mid 1990s. I’ll go check right now to make sure….. and sure enough, there’s a listing for it right here. The problem is, that’s 1995, not 1975’ish. I recall watching this show with my dad, in the “t.v. room” of our house (the house he built). I recall the t.v. as it sat in the corner of the room, the couches, the snacks we had, some parts of the show, etc. And I know, beyond any doubt, that I did not watch this show in the 1990s, which is a full 20 years from when I watched the show. I know that Robert Conrad starred in the 70s version, as he is listed as being the star of the 90s version. There’s no other mention of a “High Sierra” t.v. show previous to or in addition to the 1990s listed version, and if you check out Robert Conrad’s IMDB listing, there’s no other “High Sierra” listed there either.
EDIT: I want to explain this slightly. Yes, memories can be wrong, yes, especially with simple things or things we don’t think about on an every day basis, things can slip our minds… however, in this case, I grew up in the fire service and I learned rope-rescue, started with rappelling with friends as a 12 year old kid, and furthered my fascination with ropes from within the fire service as I turned 16 years old. My fascination with ropes, rock climbing, etc. stems from my recollection of this TV show. High Sierra was why I got into ropes and the chance to learn how to do the things I saw them do on T.V. and I remember time and time again recalling the show, especially during the classes I took in the fire service from 1986 forward and well before learning about his “berenst#in bears” theory.
Folks, I am not the only one experiencing these things. There are many other people out there experiencing the same type of memory recollection failures. I’ll post other examples later. But again, I don’t want to fall into a rabbit hole and not have a ladder, so I am going to treat this as a little escape from reality from time to time. Stuff like this doesn’t happen without a reason.
There is no spoon.
