In this mental operation, a person incorporates a memory from a motion picture, television show, rumor, or whatever other source and uses that recollection as the basis for a personal memory.  This process may be involved in cases where a UFO "abductee," for example, relates "memories" of the abduction similar to events seen dramatized earlier in a work of entertainment.  Parallels have been noted between the release or broadcast of certain UFO-related dramas and subsequent reports of "abductions" and other incidents resembling events in those dramas.  There is reason to think this process may have been active in the United States in the late 19th century, because of similarities between reports of "airship" sightings and the story of French science fiction author Jules Verne's previously published novel _Robur the Conqueror_, about an inventor and his fantastic airship.

- DJ Spooky - _Degree Zero_ MP3 off of _Riddim Warfare_ CD on Outpost/Asphodel (1998)

Borges finally decided he lived inside a Borges story. Phil Dick definitely spent his last decade inside a Phil Dick story. I think I have gotten stuck now, perhaps forever, in a Robert Anton Wilson story.

As Wilde once noted, Nature imitates Art as much as Art imitates Nature. We never SEE a foggy city the same way after we have encountered a Whistler painting of a foggy city; sea water never looks the same after we've read Lovecraft's stories of Cthulhu, the Deep Ones, the Shoggoths and the other loathsome creatures who dwell at the ocean's floor; friendly strangers never look quite as honest after you've passed through a Thomas Harris novel about serial killers and how they inspire trust and confidence and persuade otherwise sensible people to come with them to lonely places.

- Robert Anton Wilson - "Living In One's Own Fiction" in _Cosmic Trigger III_
 
 

• Memes
• trance track _Cryptomnesia_ MP3 (160k)(mixed by Ferry Corsten) by Kamaya Painters
• film _The Purple Rose Of Cairo_ directed by Woody Allen
• faces: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels

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