Is this a Mandela effect?

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In case you don't know what the Mandela effect is:-
(The Mandela effect is a false memory, a psychological phenomenon where a person recalls something that did not happen or that something happened differently from the way it actually happened).

Forgive me if Mandela effect is the wrong term for what I experience but I seem to experience this a lot on WP. I've been a member of WP for a long time now and sometimes I go back and read some really old posts and replies to my posts from years back. But 9 times out of 10, a certain sentence I can remember in some of the replies are worded exactly differently when I re-read them to what I remember them as, and it's not a case of the poster going back and editing the post to change the wording of the particular sentence that stood out the most to me.

For example, say if I remember a sentence in a reply to one of my posts as "...finding a job related to your special interest is worthwhile", when I re-read the same post months or years later I gaurentee it will be worded completely differently, like ..."it will be worthwhile to find a job relating to what your special interest is", and I'm like, "I'm sure I didn't read it in those words last time?"

It's really weird. Has anyone else had this, or is it just me?

Obviously ...you're loosing your marbles.

Just kidding.

That example is rather trivial. The person responding to you wrote a klutzy sentence (I believe that its a split infitive, but I could be wrong), and in a passive wimpy voice. Like saying "that is something up with I will not put".

You read it and thought "got it... it's sumpin he will not put up with!". Then after a couple months you remember the gist of what he said as being the actual way he said it. Which is a better and more direct and powerful way saying the same darn thing anyway. So that's not surprising. Of course you would streamline the words in your memory.

A true "Mandella Effect" thing would be quoting the Bible as saying "the lion shall lie down with the lamb". And then actually cracking a Bible and finding that the phrase is actually "the wolf will lie down with the lamb....".

The two phrase actually convey pretty much the same idea, but the imagery is quite different. The dangerous carnivore will abstain from devouring its customary prey and just hang out. But though both are big predators a wolf and lion are two very different animals. So the fact that everyone THINKS its a lion, and its really a wolf, is much weirder than your example.

Its the Cern Collider. Its messing up the whole time space continuum!

In my case... Too many times; that includes my own writings and sayings. Many times more in ways I'm not aware of.

I just don't question it nor just let it be. In some cases, relied on it to some extent which is as silly as it sounds.


Or blame my myopic point of views so I stay near and see smaller and clear details and just that!
Or did step out and see a big and blurry picture cause I got myopic mind's eye, therefore to see a clear view I step into the sea of details!
So I find asking myself where the heck were my glasses at!?

Only to find out I don't need glasses, then suddenly I got a metamorphic blindness or stiff bones from glancing another or stepping back from the picture, which is annoying.
And when I can metamorphically move away and glance around, AND able to see afar without any glasses... It's majestic, or scary. Whatever.



Or not! Cause I blame my crappy short term memory and my far crappier verbal abilities from who knows where.
And getting mixed up with stimulants and everyday stress. Who knows?


Oh, and it just so happened that I don't have the scientific terms for any of these. Blame my writing and language flaws. Or not.
Whatever, this post is confusing.

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I think human memory is more unreliable than say the way a computers memory is.

^ Yes, exactly that. It's also perfectly normal for our memory to fool us into thinking that it's more reliable and accurate than it really is - something that's been well studied by psychologists. It probably even helps us to stay mentally healthy that it works that way, just as being able to forget can be as important as being able to remember - it helps us to have a stable sense of identity not to be made aware of every little contradiction to our current way of thinking that we could otherwise dredge up from our past.

So nothing to worry about - just a little sign of a human mind working exactly as it should.

It probably means you "grew up." You worded your thoughts better because you gained knowledge.

I doubt very much that any moderator would alter a person's post---unless there were many complaints about it. The moderators don't have time to do that to many posts.

I feel like you've just acquired more knowledge, and learned how to word things better.

Oh. All right. Sorry about that.

My point, really, is that you have gotten better with time---much more than the potential that anybody altered your posts.

I just wanted to "cover all bases," so to speak.

Thank you Trogluddite! English slang is fascinating.

A half-way example of the "Mandela effect" is the "Heigh-Ho" song from Disney's Snow White. People think it was "off to work we go," but it was recorded as "home from work we go" at the end of the dwarves' day in the mine--and so it appeared on the Columbia soundtrack album in 1937. But "off to work" has lingered stronger in pop culture than "home from."

I like the Simpson's parody of it!

^ Seriously, don't get me started! I've wasted years of my life having giggle fits over eggcorns, mondegreens, and crash blossoms. I also had relatives and step-relatives from five different UK regions, and have spent most of my adult life in another, so it's not unusual that I even confuse British people with the strange old idioms that I've collected over the years. For a collection hobby, it is remarkably inexpensive!

"Beam me up, Scotty" is another famous one - it was apparently never said in that exact form in any of the three original Star Trek series, but that's how almost everyone remembers it and parodies it.