in charlie and the chocolate factory (2005) (the best version imo b/c i saw it as a kid and the magic only works around then) a lady said that chocolate is an aphrodisiac and i’ve completely internalized that as true.
i hope it is, it sort of makes sense. people buy chocolates on valentines day
This question is kind of unanswerable. People don’t really hold misconceptions that they know to be misconceptions.
It’s possible, especially when it comes to things like luck or illusion. Most people know that magic isn’t real, but some still tend to fall back on magic as an explanation for a really good illusion.
There is a fine line between holding two beliefs that are in direct contradiction and understanding that something you want to be true is something that you also understand is a misconception, is my point.
Who think of illusions they cant explain as actual magic? That would be pretty sad.
There is a term for things like that: “mental gymnastics”
People can naturally hold conflicting ideas or sometimes feel the need to believe things they know aren’t true. It’s extremely important for people to become more self-aware in that regard as it is something that can be exploited by religions, politicians, cults or scam artists.
Everyone is vulnerable to it, to different degrees. Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, most of us have tried to convince ourselves of something that wasn’t true, regardless of any facts we have seen. It’s just human nature.
I used to believe that those defibrillators used by doctors were to restart a heart
That myth is still pushed by many TV shows to this day, unfortunately. I believe that most public emergency defibrillators work automatically, so that is nice.
Yup, defibrillators are for arythmia, and work by stopping the heart for a moment to let the heart restart itself and get back into rhythm.
BF players: yeah, they are good for gunshots, knife stabs, if blown up by mines, run over by a jeep or pulverized by a sabot round. And agains lethal falls.
I used to think orange juice and milk etc should be kept in a jug in the fridge for some reason.
I didn’t know it was because they couldn’t show packaging on TV.
You don’t keep your milk in a fridge?
I think this person transfers their milk and orange juice into jugs in the fridge.
Orange juice was probably in jugs because it’s being made from concentrate in a can. Milk at least in Canada in certain provinces is sold in bags which go into a jug.
It’s not exactly a misconception that I’ve ever really held, but I absolutely hate the lazy writing trope in TV/film where hitting someone over the head and knocking them out is used so commonly and casually and there are never any repercussions.
In reality, if you get hit on the head hard enough that you lose consciousness for any length of time, you’re almost certainly going to suffer very serious brain damage. If you wake up at all - yes, it’s quite possible you’d die from this - then you’re going to have a major concussion, a huge headache, and probably a fracture in your skull and your brain will be swelling up inside your skull. It’s a VERY serious injury, and yet it’s just played off as this casual thing on TV and I think it’s incredibly dangerous how casually it’s depicted.
My granddad died because he slipped on some ice on the way to work one day, and bumped his head. It happened before I was born, but knowing this always reminded me how serious head injuries can be
Heh, yeah I’ve been playing one of the Batman games (Arkham Origins) and the hero “knocks out” every single enemy with either a chokehold or a blow to the head. I sigh and think “Yep, Batman doesn’t kill 🙄” whenever he walks away from a pile of 18 unconscious henchmen all with grievous and urgent injuries.
That quicksand is everywhere. And if you find a pyramid with crystals in it, leave them be.
Or that quicksand is actually, well, quick.
Thanks, Princess Bride. 👍
KInda stupid question, innit? If I still have it, I don’t think it’s a misconception. You’d have to tell me.
But then, anyone can make a mistake. Doesn’t make you a bad person. I make mistakes every day. I shouldn’t have said stupid, I should said… whatever they call it now. Meathead?
It is an aphrodisiac, but not a very strong one. Various types of nuts can be more benefitial to the libido than chocolate is… or a combo of them, yeah, that can also work I guess.
Almost all dinosaur-centric film/TV of the 90s-2000s imply (or state outright) that the dinosaurs are now extinct. As a result, this remains a deeply held and ubiquitously perpetuated misconception. Paleontologists have suspected since the 70s, and known for sure since at least the 2000s, that the avian theropod dinosaurs survived and became modern-day birds. Therefore, birds are dinosaurs. Wikipedia is pretty clear on this.
Well, in terms of species (could create fertile offspring), modern day birds are not dinosaurs.
However, we animals which are the same species as they were millions of years ago.
Anyone who has seen a shoebill stork knows that dinosaurs didn’t die.
If I could just list out my misconceptions I’d be a god
That I still have? If I still have any, it’s because I don’t know any different to be able to say I have any. 🤷🏻♂️
I’m sure there’s a few; I just can’t say for certain what they are.
Chocolate is not an aphrodisiac (aphrodisiac= something that makes you horny), but chocolate can satisfy sexual frustration like when a woman is lonely so she eats chocolate and it calms her angst and she feels satisfied even though she’s still alone/lonely, chocolate has a chemical medicinal effect of calming & satisfying.
