nisantis said:
The first example that comes to my mind is an episode of a show called Haven.
The show takes place in an isolated town where everyone secretly has a supernatural ability based on a traumatic event in their past. In this particular episode, a woman with a Christmas related trauma manifests her ability, causing everyone in town to develop obsessive and dangerous levels of holiday spirit while believing that Christmas was just a few days away. It was early August at the time.
Main character Audrey, who's power is immunity to everyone else's powers, was the only one not affected, but any attempt she makes to point out what's happening or get people to focus on the task at hand is brushed of with the excuse that she's just being a Scrooge.
Thanks a lot! That was def interesting! I love when stuff like that spreads and people think it's normal. Actually there is an anime who is entirely that: princess tutu. In this anime unusual things happen like anthros animal speaking and all but people are mind alter to think it's normal. in fact it's at the scale of the town and any stranger who penetrates the town is either turned into a an anthro or something else or stays normal but in both cases they'll be mind alter to think it's normal
Just remembered another example from the SCP Foundation.
"SCP-6421 is a cognitohazardous political ad found on posters and billboards all over Chile. Anyone who sees it becomes completely convinced that Spider-Man is the country's current president.
Those affected still recognize the authority of the actual president, and still realize that Spider-Man is both a foreign national and a fictional character, but don't consider any of that to be relevant."
that's why I love SCPs sometimes ^^