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What a timely article, as I JUST watched Brainstorm for the first time tonight. The story is exactly this.

• fourmyle 7y ago
  Probably not a coincidence
  • overcast 7y ago
    Well, considering it's been in my Netflix DVD queue for years, and it just happened to be next in line. Pretty big coincidence!
• taneq 7y ago
  It's called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...), and now that you know that, you're gonna be seeing examples of it everywhere.
• bookofjoe 7y ago
  Movies like "Brainstorm": "The Final Cut" "Strange Days" "Total Recall" "Altered States" "Lawnmower Man" "Ex Machina" "The Thirteenth Floor" "The Truman Show" "Inception" "Selfless" "Flatliners"
  • dpau 7y ago
    also wim wenders' "Until The End of the World"