Fun fact: The term “gaslighting” comes from the 1938 play "Gas Light", where a man dims the lamps then denies it to make his wife doubt her sanity.
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Thank you so much for ending my incomprehension of the term 👍
aug 26, 2025, 11:21 am • 1 0 • view
The movie is pretty good too
aug 26, 2025, 12:04 pm • 0 0 • view
You must have read a false source, it derives from the German ‘gaslitung’ meaning ‘to mislead or confuse’.
aug 26, 2025, 7:35 am • 1 0 • view
No, the OP is correct. The accepted etymology for gaslighting comes from the play Gaslight. And it doesn't exactly mean to mislead or confuse. It means to psychologically manipulate someone.
aug 26, 2025, 9:21 am • 10 0 • view
They must have changed the definition after you checked, they do that sometimes
aug 26, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Ingrid Bergman and I forget who else. Charles Boyer?
aug 26, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
You must be imagining things. There's no such play.
aug 26, 2025, 9:56 am • 14 0 • view
It is a fabulous movie with Ingrid Bergman & Charles Boyer.
aug 26, 2025, 10:48 am • 5 0 • view
low quality info. unfollowing.
aug 26, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Angel Street
aug 26, 2025, 12:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Which is a lesson to think critically! If anyone did this to me, I'd change the lightbulb and if that didn't work, call the power company. Same works with other issues. Don't believe something is true until its verified by 2+ sources. BTW my husband is a great guy.
aug 26, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
If I remember the movie correctly the wife turned the tables on the bum.
aug 26, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank goodness this play didn’t take place in the early 1970s. We might have had a psychological torture method known as ‘lava lamping”.
aug 26, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Great movie.
aug 26, 2025, 6:23 am • 20 1 • view
Close.
aug 26, 2025, 11:00 am • 0 0 • view
The 1944 movie "Gaslight" is based on a play named "Angel Street." The term gaslighting refers to what the bad guy was doing to his wife in the movie, trying to make her think she's going crazy. It's easy to look these things up. No need to speculate. This is from Wikipedia:
aug 26, 2025, 10:11 am • 3 0 • view
Well with all these conflicting responses I'm wondering if I'm being Gaslit - wherever it originated! 😆
aug 26, 2025, 11:40 am • 2 0 • view
Star Trek TNG, Chain of Command Picard is captured and the torture is to get him to believe there are five lights when there are really only four. Picard, of course, beats it, and the last line is "THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS" Lets remember there are four lights.
aug 27, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view