Mandela effect examples

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My siblings and I had a conversation about this recently as it pertains to our dad coming out with random 'facts' details or stories (that never happened). I am sure he thinks we are all the crazy ones. It's never meaningful stuff but it's weird to have someone retell a story/recollection so wrong.

My ex husband used to do this and it was so aggravating. In every story he told he was somehow the hero (e.g., never loss the game, won for the team at the buzzer, always won the fight, always got the girl, etc.). This dated back to stories he would tell me from his childhood well before we met. I eventually caught on and would silently roll my eyes.

He had a massive ego, and I suspect that had an impact on his misremembering of events. From his perspective he was telling the truth.

[Anonymous]

This is not mandala affected most of these examples. It’s poor spelling/comprehension/memory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The "Mandela Effect" is pretty explainable. There have been interesting studies on this. Human memory is actually pretty poor. Often when you are "remembering" something, especially from further back, you are actually having a memory...of a memory--not the event itself! And it changes each time. Writing about an event can change your memory of it, as can photographs. Our memories are VERY fallible.

In the Mandela Effect examples, it's usually something in popular culture from childhood that has obviously just been misquoted over time. People are also very suggestible, so if something is misquoted or if they are prompted with an inaccurate memory, they may "remember" it slightly incorrectly.

I once went down a rabbit hole on the Mandela Effect reddit and overall, I found it kind of silly. (Still kind of fun, but also ridiculous that some people seemed to think there was some conspiracy or that their memory from 30+ years ago must be perfect.) Many of the false memories were from decades ago, from childhood, so course they're probably not remembering something correctly or they probably assumed something was spelled a certain way (like the "Berenstein" bears example or Loony "Toons") when they were children.

None of that explains that so many of us--so many--grew up spelling dilemna. And studied the Book of Psalms. I am not OP--and these were the very two first things that came to mind when I saw the post title.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The "Mandela Effect" is pretty explainable. There have been interesting studies on this. Human memory is actually pretty poor. Often when you are "remembering" something, especially from further back, you are actually having a memory...of a memory--not the event itself! And it changes each time. Writing about an event can change your memory of it, as can photographs. Our memories are VERY fallible.

In the Mandela Effect examples, it's usually something in popular culture from childhood that has obviously just been misquoted over time. People are also very suggestible, so if something is misquoted or if they are prompted with an inaccurate memory, they may "remember" it slightly incorrectly.

I once went down a rabbit hole on the Mandela Effect reddit and overall, I found it kind of silly. (Still kind of fun, but also ridiculous that some people seemed to think there was some conspiracy or that their memory from 30+ years ago must be perfect.) Many of the false memories were from decades ago, from childhood, so course they're probably not remembering something correctly or they probably assumed something was spelled a certain way (like the "Berenstein" bears example or Loony "Toons") when they were children.

None of that explains that so many of us--so many--grew up spelling dilemna. And studied the Book of Psalms. I am not OP--and these were the very two first things that came to mind when I saw the post title.

As already stated on this thread, it’s called the book of PSALMS because it’s more than one psalm. Do you know what a psalm is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The "Mandela Effect" is pretty explainable. There have been interesting studies on this. Human memory is actually pretty poor. Often when you are "remembering" something, especially from further back, you are actually having a memory...of a memory--not the event itself! And it changes each time. Writing about an event can change your memory of it, as can photographs. Our memories are VERY fallible.

In the Mandela Effect examples, it's usually something in popular culture from childhood that has obviously just been misquoted over time. People are also very suggestible, so if something is misquoted or if they are prompted with an inaccurate memory, they may "remember" it slightly incorrectly.

I once went down a rabbit hole on the Mandela Effect reddit and overall, I found it kind of silly. (Still kind of fun, but also ridiculous that some people seemed to think there was some conspiracy or that their memory from 30+ years ago must be perfect.) Many of the false memories were from decades ago, from childhood, so course they're probably not remembering something correctly or they probably assumed something was spelled a certain way (like the "Berenstein" bears example or Loony "Toons") when they were children.

None of that explains that so many of us--so many--grew up spelling dilemna. And studied the Book of Psalms. I am not OP--and these were the very two first things that came to mind when I saw the post title.

As already stated on this thread, it’s called the book of PSALMS because it’s more than one psalm. Do you know what a psalm is?

OP is just breathtakingly stupid. Don't blame any effect. Maybe Dunning-Kruger. Also, dilemna? REALLY? DILEMNA? How stupid. It doesn't look right.

[Anonymous]

For any '90s kids, this thread reminds me of the show "Sliders," where the boy genius and his friends would slide through portals to different planets, trying to find their original home.

Sometimes they would think they were home because the replica planet so closely matched their home, but eventually there would be one or two telltale signs proving they were not on the correct earth.

Maybe we are all simply unaware that we slid at some point, lol

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi288599833/?ref_=tt_vids_vi_1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For any '90s kids, this thread reminds me of the show "Sliders," where the boy genius and his friends would slide through portals to different planets, trying to find their original home.

Sometimes they would think they were home because the replica planet so closely matched their home, but eventually there would be one or two telltale signs proving they were not on the correct earth.

Maybe we are all simply unaware that we slid at some point, lol

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi288599833/?ref_=tt_vids_vi_1

That's the most interesting thing about the actual Mandela in the Mandela effect. People theorize that there's an alt timeline where he did die in prison. Terrifying!

[Anonymous]

???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For any '90s kids, this thread reminds me of the show "Sliders," where the boy genius and his friends would slide through portals to different planets, trying to find their original home.

Sometimes they would think they were home because the replica planet so closely matched their home, but eventually there would be one or two telltale signs proving they were not on the correct earth.

Maybe we are all simply unaware that we slid at some point, lol

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi288599833/?ref_=tt_vids_vi_1

Poor Jerry O’Connell slid into an alternate timeline where he does ads for Quick Hit Slots now 😔

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not mandala affected most of these examples. It’s poor spelling/comprehension/memory.

Technically, OP has never been wrong. OP has perfect recall. The only possible explanation is that they were abducted to a different universe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For any '90s kids, this thread reminds me of the show "Sliders," where the boy genius and his friends would slide through portals to different planets, trying to find their original home.

Sometimes they would think they were home because the replica planet so closely matched their home, but eventually there would be one or two telltale signs proving they were not on the correct earth.

Maybe we are all simply unaware that we slid at some point, lol

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi288599833/?ref_=tt_vids_vi_1

That's the most interesting thing about the actual Mandela in the Mandela effect. People theorize that there's an alt timeline where he did die in prison. Terrifying!

I think that’s just people confusing him with Steve Biko.

[Anonymous]

Who is the weird/rude person who keeps commenting harshly on a completely harmless post? Are you having a bad day? Do you need a hug? If you want to fight, why not visit the political forum.

[Anonymous]

It is still the Book of Psalms. But when you’re quoting a specific verse, you use the singular Psalm, e.g., Psalm 23:1. Psalm literally means “song”.

I do distinctly remember Berenstein Bears, not Berenstain. My mom even pronounced the last syllable “-steen”, which wouldn’t make sense if there was an A in there instead of an E.

[Anonymous]

I have no idea what any of you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is still the Book of Psalms. But when you’re quoting a specific verse, you use the singular Psalm, e.g., Psalm 23:1. Psalm literally means “song”.

I do distinctly remember Berenstein Bears, not Berenstain. My mom even pronounced the last syllable “-steen”, which wouldn’t make sense if there was an A in there instead of an E.

I always said it Beren-steen too, but it was always Berenstain. I think people just gloss over unusual spellings in that way.