Thread:Garr9988/@comment-5782071-20170715215246/@comment-1674153-20170916050432

I do love the concept of the best worst kept secret. It plays a lot into sociological functions and I'm a sucker for that sort of thing.

And on a similar note, I've seen many a fantasy/sci-fi creative work hand wave away the risk of normal people experiencing the fantastic with the idea that people just want to believe that everything has a rational explanation, and will blind themselves to the seemingly impossible because it's just so much easier that way. So maybe they aren't forgetting their experience so much as subconsciously avoiding the memory of it or any strict analysis, because then they would be left with a gaping plot hole in their own life.