Mandela Effect: false memories, gaslighting, scifi IRL?

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Welcome to the Twilight Zone folks, has anyone heard of the Mandela Effect? Watching videos on Youtube about it, and before then for some things, I seem to relate too much to this. For me, I remember the terminator saying "I'll be Bach" as a mispronunciation of "back" rather than saying "baaack" basically. I remember the Berenstein Bears and a few other things, like "Search your feelings, Luke, I am your father" rather than "no", and "what if I told you everything you knew was a lie, that the world outside is not what it seems" and so forth. While misremembering things is certainly possible, what if it's not really misremembering? How many others remember a slightly different world with the things that people like Adam on Adam Ruins Everything point out to say, "you were wrong if you remembered it this way!"?

Is this an effect of memories? Is it just gaslighting like War of the Worlds? Is it somehow something more bizarre? Am I just in a coma since like May of 2013? :p

How many others remember the world like I do? Welcome to the Mandela Effect Club.

About a year ago a WP member named "BanDodger" started a bunch of threads about modern Flat Earthism, and threads about the Mandella Effect. So you're kinda late to the Mandella effect party.

The Mandela Effect is funny when people don't take it seriously.



Unfortunately, there are some idiots who take it seriously.

It sucks when you can't even start a proper conversation. Oh wow, someone said something similar in the past, yay. Argh people.

You gotta expect ridicule when you talk about something that is...ridicule-ous! Lol!

But I will bend over backwards to be even handed, and give two contrasting examples about the topic.

On one hand - a couple of weeks ago I was talking to a friend on the phone. Apparently she doesn't spend as much time on U-tube, and the net as I do- so she didn't yet know about the Mandela Effect. So I ask her "what was the name of that TV show starring Kim Cantrell, and Sarah Jessica Parker, etc ?" She said "Sex IN the City". I corrected her that it was "Sex AND the City", but added that that "in" is what I thought it was too, and that's what EVERYONE thinks it is". She admitted that "That IS kinda weird".

But on the other hand folks "remember that New Zealand used to be north of Australia". That's total BS. I remember reading about both countries since I was a gradeschool kid in the Sixties, and remember looking at globes and maps since then. They were always where they are now. And if the two landmasses had jumped around like that then one or the other or both would have had completely different climate and vegetation zones then they have now (you can get away with claiming continents jump around east and west, but not north and south).

Mandela effect my ass! That's folks being geographically illiterate.

I generally remember the same as this guy.

That's the nature of memories-----they tend to change over time.

They are not usually "absolutely correct"---and are less "correct" as time proceeds.

But they are usually "correct" in essence.

I guess a parent/guardian/whatever could "gaslight" a person either deliberately or unknowingly. It's not hard to do for memories of when you were 3-4 years of age.

This is both disturbing yet funny.

I don't know what's causing this, but something is wrong. For me it seems as though I've been living in Idiocracy Land since about sometime shortly after May 15th 2013 to June 17th 2013, (though it's been more like Hell since March 28th 2015 when Jackie physically left me, but it was around May or June of 2013 when everything started appearing wrong to me.) Somedays this all seems like some bizarre dream, but it's too real to be a dream, and so I guess I'm just living a nightmare. Jackie, I still love you.

Twenty Thirteen?

The usual scapegoat that Mandela Effect believers cite as the supposed cause of the effect is the Cern Collider.

Once they started banging those atoms around in the tunnels of that big thing under the Alps it supposedly started to mess up our very timeline!

So when did the Cern Collider in Switzerland go online?

Was it mid 2013?

I remember the Barenstain/Berenstein bears thing from childhood but I think I can also spot the causal mechanics as well. I either ether read or had read to me Barenstain bears, at an age where like a lot of people I took things in uncritically and (of course) had no sense that I'd need to remember the correct spelling of Barenstain for later. Later I learned that the last-name suffix that went along with that was nearly always 'stein' so, it's quite likely that my mental spellchecker went on autocorrect based on probabilities.

Things like this to me are interesting because in a way they follow the same sort of rules that mentalists and illusionists exploit just that, well, they're the sorts of magic tricks that accrue over decades and in our own minds.