… of Counterfactual Thinking” Kai Epstude & Neal J. Roese said this about the this mental phenomena “Counterfactual thinking seems to be a common feature of people’s conscious mental landscape The capacity to entertain counterfactual possibilities emerges early in life (typically by age 2) and seems to be evident as soon as childre…
Some of the stories are horrific some we enjoy and some we choose to believe and want to be true we consciously and willingly ignore facts, empirical evidence and sometimes scientific prove chasing the hope that either our stories or the stories that we have been told come to real life.