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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.
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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.[/quote]

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?  [/quote]

OP is just breathtakingly stupid. Don't blame any effect. Maybe Dunning-Kruger. Also, dilemna? REALLY? DILEMNA? How stupid. It doesn't look right. 
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NP here. I too always spelled dilemma, dilemna. At some point in my life, I was taught that. I don't know anything about the Mandela affect, but as an adult, when spellcheck started fixing the word for me, I was blown away. My elementary, middle, and high school teachers definitely all spelled it dilemna. Maybe it's a regional thing? Any of you "dilemna" spellers from PA?  BTW, there are loads of words that "don't look right," with silent letters. I mean, off the top of my head, one that I can think of, hhmm, PSALM. [/quote]

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