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I've both heard this in everyday conversations and seen it in text on the internet.

What I mean is that a person will legitimately use the phrase in a conversation, and then immediately another person will repeat the phrase as if mockingly or like its some sort of meme. Sometimes its repeated multiple times like an echo. Its very bizarre (especially without context), as if the NPCs are becoming more and more like robot's.

I assume this phrase must have been popularized by some Hollywood production recently.

I've both heard this in everyday conversations and seen it in text on the internet. What I mean is that a person will legitimately use the phrase in a conversation, and then immediately another person will repeat the phrase as if mockingly or like its some sort of meme. Sometimes its repeated multiple times like an echo. Its very bizarre (especially without context), as if the NPCs are becoming more and more like robot's. I assume this phrase must have been popularized by some Hollywood production recently.

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So just coincidence, but you recognize something your brain will spot it..There are zillions of bits of information flying thru your senses all the time, so your brain has to filter it out constantly otherwise you would be like a deer in headlights..but once you start thinking of something your brain will spot it out...if it's on the queue your brain will find it.

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I understand that concept. You better not be gaslighting me right now bro..

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

what do you mean..i heard of that phrase, but how so?

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"The term gaslighting derives from the 1938 play and 1944 film Gaslight, in which a husband manipulates his wife into thinking she has a mental illness by dimming their gas-fueled lights and telling her she is hallucinating."