Hi Dick-diamonds,
I have many theories and ideas about what the ME is. One thing which I KNOW is that it is statistically improbable to impossible that so many people would independently 'misremember' or 'conflate memories without outside influence or social/cultural art/film/popular culture etc being involved. I have researched the so-called 'recovered memory syndrome' and I find this work (Dr Elizabeth Loftus) to be highly suspect and to have methodological biases.
Whilst, I do agree with Dr Loftus that some memories can become more dramatic or emotionally charged over time, due to other combined experiences with people/family/or emotional themes which develop as part of one's personality, I DO NOT believe that entire, vivid memories can be 'implanted' into every individual. There are definitely some individuals who are more open to clever suggestion, hypnosis, or various other NLP or occult style trickery, BUT this is only a percentage of the populace. MK Ultra and victim profiling comes to my mind...so I would not entirely rule out that a certain percentage of the 'normie' population is under some form of more advanced mind control: using a combination of chemical substances in our water, food, vaccines, skin care products, cookware, clothing etc, AND possibly psychotronic or frequency based weapons, subliminal messages in tv, media, indoctrination posing as education etc
I was pretty keen on the idea that CERN, SLAC, KEK etc were somehow involved in tearing the 'fabric of the space-time continuum' thus causing some type of 'butterfly effect' ripple through our universe...BUT know I think that 'they' wish that they knew enough to cause the ME...but they don't have that much knowledge or power...they are just universal 'tyre kickers' who like kids with some big fireworks like to stick them somewhere and blow shit up and see what happens!!
I am more interested in Vedic and Talmudic concepts of multi-verses and layers of overlapping dimensions now...but I certainly do not claim to have any definitive answers. Another idea which I have considered, is that this is some sort of 'soul school' where our souls are given signs of things not being quite right or deja vu, so that we can progress...or cease to exist, if we are not worthy. I am also very interested in John Lamb Lash's Gaia's Correction thesis...as the more that one pays attention to our universe and in particular, to our beautiful Mother Earth, Gaia...the more she appears to speak to us as individuals, in our own language of mythological archetypes or symbols