My sister and I have both experienced some weird stuff but this is really hard to find a explanation for. I have a playstation 1 system at my house and with it I have a demo cd that has several demo games on it. One of the games on it is a x-men fighting game and on the demo version of it you can't be as many characters as you can in the full version. So later on I went to buy the full version of the game.
I remember looking at the little booklet thing that comes with the game and seeing the character Rouge. Btw the demo I have is the 2nd of these x-men fighting games and Rouge is one of the characters that isn't avalible in the demo but is in the full version. Later on though I realized that I accidently got the 1st one not the 2nd one. Rouge isn't on the 1st one only the 2nd one. I remember seeing her in the booklet before and so does my sister and I've looked and she isn't in there anymore. Does anyone have any kind of explanation for this?

Same individual booklet you looked at the first time, or a different one? They do reprint and redesign.

It just sounds like a simple case of bad memory in both your cases. You saying, "Hey, wasn't Rogue on here before?" could easily conjure a picture in your sister's head of her being there, and vice versa. Human memory sucks ass.

It's "Rogue", by the way.

I remember when I first bought the game looking at the booklet that came with it. Each character had their own page that told about their history, powers, height, weight, etc. and I remember seeing her picture and reading stuff about her. I remember reading this in the car before I got home and she was in there. Later on when I actually played the game she wasn't on there and neither were any of the other characters that are on the 2nd x-men game and not the 1st. Thats when I realized I must have gotten the first version by mistake. I didn't and still don't know why I remember seeing her in there though.
I've only had one other experience where I remember something that didn't happen but I think that must have been a dream or something because it's something that wouldn't happen in real life. I usually have a really good memory, I mean I can even remember something that happened to me either on or near my first birthday.
If anyone has the 2nd version of this game and you still have the booklet that comes with it could you post a pic of the page with her on it?

Assuming nobody finds the vindicating page:

It is common to have vivid memories that are simply false.

The "usual" way for this to be discovered is when two people who shared, or "ought to" have shared, some experience compare notes, and disagree, each claiming vivid recollection of something incompatible with the other's claim of a vivid recollection.

Obviously, they can't both be right. At least one person must have a vivid false recollection.

Once the principle is accepted, it is inevitable (I think) that two people might agree about a shared experience, and be wrong anyway. These cases would be rare, since there are more ways for two false recollections to disagree than agree, but also because people are less likely to check corroborating memories than conflicting ones (which is not always even possible).

So, this is good. You have documented an instance of something rare.

People are always a little discomfited when they find out that a vivid long-term memory item is false. The very bedrock of our sense of self which is challenged. But hopefully it is some consolation that this happens to everyone, and that when it happened to you, at least it happened in an especially interesting way.


Oh well. Good news: it still only counts as one false memory . Bad news: even if somebody finds the page, it's still a false memory.

I just checked and the name of the game I have is X-men mutant academy(I'm not sure how to spell academy either). I don't know what the name of the second one is but it tells on the demo so I'll post it on here later.

It could just be me remembering something wrong, and my sister could have been too but it just seems really weird that it was so vivid. I don't think that me telling her what I remember would make her suddenly think that too.

I once had a dream when I was very young that I was walking down the street with my mum and it was a raised road, kinda like a bridge and below there were racing cars F1 type on roads down below.

For many many years I believed that this was a real event, until I asked my mum if she remembered, which of course she didnt, and only then when I recall the height of the bridge we were on and the appearance of th F1 cars it is obvious it was a dream.

The mind is a very complex thing, and very prone to suggestion. Sometimes when people tell a lie they can retell it so many times that they become convinced that it is truth.

I would suggest you're mind has literally put 2 & 2 together with the bookletts, Rogue is a very prominent and memorable character with anyone familiar with the comic/cartoon and easy to imagine.

u probly just half remembered rogue from somewhere and then ur mind put her and the demo together as they were in the same contecs as xmem

It would be really helpful if someone could find the page because it would prove whether or not this is a false memory. Until then I'll just tell what I can remember from the page. Her picture was black and white, she looked like the old version of rogue (she had bigger hair and she might have had a headband), her picture was in the upper right corner of the page. In the stuff about her I think it said something about her being able to fly and having enhanced strength (She doesn't in the movies or in the newer cartoon version but she did eventually in the comics and an older cartoon). I know I could just be getting the flying and strength thing from the old cartoon or comics, but if the picture of her in there is in the same spot as I remember and she looks the same it would be pretty weird.

More or less this is a false memory thing going on... I wouldn't freak out about it..

How can you remember something that never happened?

I think that's it's called a *false* memory.. but im just guessing.

Something else seems a bit ....false

What do you mean? If you mean that I'm just making all this up then you're wrong. I hate people who make up weird stories and try to make people believe that they're telling the truth, and I don't understand what kind of amusement they find in doing that. It might have never happened, but the memory (whether it's false or not) is something that to me really seems like it happened.

Nah it was an inside joke with her and I....not doubting your story, maybe the way it was worded per se, but we all have our stories of similar incidents.

No one saying you're making it up... and the thing with false memories is that they are very real. I'm not saying that's what going on for sure.. but just to let you know.