What’s a movie you were convinced was just a weird dream until you found out years later it was actually real?
When I was a kid in the 90s, I had this memory of seeing a movie in which two toys roamed around different environments. It was darkly lit and felt lonely, almost creepy, like a live-action Toy Story directed by David Lynch.
I thought about it occasionally while growing up and eventually I just gave up on the idea that it was a real film and it was probably just a memorable dream that stuck with me.
Years later as a teen, I was in CVS and was browsing their DVD rack (CVS use to sell DVDs) and noticed two very familiar looking characters on the cover of a movie called Where the Toys Come From.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Toys_Come_From
Turns out, this was an extremely low budget Disney movie that aired on the Disney channel in 1983 and was basically forgotten about. It felt surreal and vindicating to see that it was real.
Do you have any "shadow memory" experiences like that?