"It's so hard to believe that people actually believed those things and spoke that way."

Versus the "Don't speak of anything that's too uncomfortable for you" way of living. But anyways, that's probably the "divorced from the reality you actually experienced in your most recent incarnation" part of your consciousness speaking.

"Shooting Snakes" by S. Cokal on JSTOR

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40638382