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 I too am always struck by the discrepancy between different individuals' accounts of the same events, no matter how many 48 Hour Mysteries, Law & Orders, and movies that I watch. And how many of us have trouble identifying our first memories as children? I still struggle to decide if I can actually remember my grandmother putting me into my parents' car and giving me a present for every hour of the car trip when we moved from VA to NJ, or if that is just a false memory from the stories my parents told me and the photographs I have seen. 

And the fact that we can convince ourselves of the validity of something AND that others can convince us is both amazing and terrifying. It all ties into Inception- that was part of the brilliance of the movie. It was in a way completely plausible, and left you sitting in the theater as the lights came on, questioning reality.