Rashomon effect

Okay, have you ever played the game "telephone" with your friends? One person whispers something to the next person and then they whisper it to the next person, and so on. By the time the message gets to the last person, it's usually different from the original message, right?

Well, the Rashomon effect is kind of like that, but with a story instead of a message. It's when different people have different versions or perspectives of the same event.

For example, imagine there was a big party and something important happened that no one really saw clearly. Maybe someone says they saw one thing happen, another person says they saw something else, and someone else even has a completely different story.

Just like in the game of telephone, each person has a slightly different version of what happened. It doesn't mean they're lying, but they might have just seen things differently or remembered things differently.

And so the Rashomon effect is when we realize that the truth about an event can be different depending on who you ask. It reminds us that there's not always just one correct or simple answer to everything, and that sometimes we need to consider multiple points of view before we can really understand what happened.