The Mandela Effect... - ...or I remember it differently so the universe is wrong.

The worst part is that some of these people never actually saw it in the theaters in the first place and yet they're still acting like it's true.
Certainly comes from those only familiar with those TV/home video releases.

When I was googling the term I came across something I remember from my childhood, namely the Jackson 5 cartoon. Back in the early 70's Rankin-Bass made a cartoon based on the Jackson 5, years later when Michael Jackson came back with "Thriller" they started showing it on TV again and it's been in syndication off and on since then. You can catch most of the episodes on youtube now. But some woman said that this was proof of the Mandela Effect because she said that had this been on TV back in the 70's she would have known about it.
I don't recall The Jackson 5 cartoon being on in my area at all (if it was syndicated in the 80's), but I do remember the cable channel BET airing it at one point.

Problem is, she gives herself away immediately in saying that growing up they only had three or four channels. Now her theory would work had that show been on one of those channels but who's to say that it was? There was no internet back then, you had to buy TV guide or something assuming of course they made it for your area.
That's basically the problem with the way TV was back then, you either saw it or you didn't, and when you only had those three-four channels, you could miss something very easily if you had something else to watch, or not watching TV altogether (of course home video and cable TV gave us even more avenues to see it). Syndicated repeats was your only bet of seeing it again years down the road. I know plenty of people that would fit her description of thinking where did this come from. It just befuddles them.

But instead of thinking, "maybe I just never saw this" it's full blown, "this came from another reality stream and now those two streams have merged into this one".
Damn!

I had less than half of the Berenstain Bears books when I was a kid, but I don't remember this particular page! It's not because I didn't read this particular book.... it's because there's an alternate universe! Yeah! that's it!
or alternatively:
I remember the tree house being slightly different. Proof of an alternate universe!
Maybe in that universe, Bigpaw actually wears pants for once!
 
This is pretty common on /x/ what with all the rping faggots who now infest the board.

Chainmail book, anybody?
 
When I watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit at around age 5 or 6 (some time in the late 90s), during the ending scene with all of the various Toons gathering around Judge Doom's melted corpse, I had sworn I saw Sonic the Hedgehog among said crowd even though Sonic didn't even exist when that movie was made
It would be pretty cool to see a Roger Rabbit sequel set in the 80s with a Vidya Town populated by 8-bit character sprites
 
proof of the mandela effect: Marilyn Manson got the JFK car wrong in coma white
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When I watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit at around age 5 or 6 (some time in the late 90s), during the ending scene with all of the various Toons gathering around Judge Doom's melted corpse, I had sworn I saw Sonic the Hedgehog among said crowd even though Sonic didn't even exist when that movie was made
It would be pretty cool to see a Roger Rabbit sequel set in the 80s with a Vidya Town populated by 8-bit character sprites

There are a few people I've known who swear that when they saw Roger Rabbit in theaters, instead of a cartoon shoe, it was a cute cartoon squirrel that got dunked and dissolved. And these were people in different places who couldn't have made the squirrel thing up together. I've never heard anything about a squirrel, but that sounds about as goofy as the back to the future "to be continued" thing.
 
When I watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit at around age 5 or 6 (some time in the late 90s), during the ending scene with all of the various Toons gathering around Judge Doom's melted corpse, I had sworn I saw Sonic the Hedgehog among said crowd even though Sonic didn't even exist when that movie was made
It would be pretty cool to see a Roger Rabbit sequel set in the 80s with a Vidya Town populated by 8-bit character sprites

See, I only just realized that Sonic had his own highly successful game series. In my universe, he was a disposable enemy in an obscure game called Quik and Silva.
 
The name comes from a few years back when a "paranormal consultant" at DragonCon was in the green room with a bunch of other weirdos and some, not all mind you, distinctly remembered that Nelson Mandela had died in prison.

If someone in that room had said "No, that was Steve Biko", this bullshit would never have happened.
 
I think if the multiverse theory is true, and universes did collide, we'd see bigger discrepancies than a logo changing.

Possibly. If I was being generous, I would say that in order for a person to switch universes with their alternate self without either self realizing what happened, they would have to be in exactly the same place at exactly the same time in exactly the same position. In order to do that, both universes would have to be very similar, which would explain why they only talk about minor differences.

Of course, my theory is that only one universe exist at any given time, with any 'alternative' universes not existing at all. The alternative universes are simply possible universes that could exist based on the choices made in the universe that exists in this specific time frame.

I don't want to have this discussion. The Mandela Effect could possibly exist, but if it does than it is inconsequential.
 
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"Berenstain" is not nearly as common as "...stein", that's why so many people either misspell it as "Berenstein", or remember it as such.
It's pretty simple: if one doesn't really pay attention to how it's spelled, the mind fills in the gap by assuming it was "stein" because that's how it normally is. Then one pays attention and see it's different. It's a similar tale with other instances of the Mandela Effect: the mind fills in gaps with how it thinks it should be, which turn out to be wrong.

Now there's 2 options: the mundane boring thing I just described, or WOW ALTERNATE UNIVERSES AND SHIT.

I can see why one might choose the latter.

Yeah I saw that episode of AVGN too.

This is pretty common on /x/
There was a thread on /x/ a while back when people were claiming to have jumped from other universes they died in.
 
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I was trying to explain the Mandela effect to some people once, although I use the term to describe the strange tricks your brain can play on you then follow it up with an explanation of sperg from other dimensions and we all have a laugh. Anyway, I used my own example - the word dilemma, which all my life I was sure was spelled dilemna, and I knew it was spelled dilemna because I would enunciate the 'emna' in my head whenever I spelled it, because it sounded funny to me. Then about 10 years ago I learned it was actually dilemma, which looked and still looks idiotic to me, but that's just an example of how crazy your brain can be and if you don't think your brain could do that to you then you've never met a schizophrenic. And once I was finished explaining all of this, one of the girls I was talking to insisted that it was spelled dilemna, and that I was an idiot and how could I be so dumb. Explain that scientists!
 
At some point, we got this idea that the brain was this perfect, infallible, totally reliable recording device. We believed that human memory was the gold standard for truth, when nothing could be further from the truth. Memory is affected by tens of thousands of factors, ranging from the person's age, emotional state, basic intelligence, interest in the subject matter, health, etc. Your brain doesn't record your experiences, it records your perception of your experiences. Your perception is often very different from reality. It's why eyewitness accounts aren't always considered reliable during trials.

As for the Bearenstain thing... those books are aimed at children who are just learning how to read. It's not surprising those same children might mess up a longer word, especially one they wouldn't see very often.
 
The Mandela Effect cracks me up because it is literally the polar opposite to Occam's Razor. By ignoring the obvious conclusion of "Maybe I am not that smart or my memory is flawed" you go out and find other idiots who misunderstood the same thing and create some string theory bullshit. It's the goddamed internet in a nutshell, what would have just been a lone moron in the wild has become a tsunami of jackassery
 
What really bugs me about the Berenstaein Bears is that they don't resemble any real-world species of bear.

sry autistic offtopic.
Nah, them Baerstean bears clearly look like grizzlies or generic brown bears.

But holy shit, how :autism: must you even be to think spelling it Berenstain qualifies as "OOO! It must be some mystical otuerwordly force/parallel diemnsion!"? I think I was one of the few who actually knew that -stain was the correct spelling.
 
This is the most ridiculously boring fantasy I've ever heard of.

Oh, I was somehow transported to an alternate universe where...everything is exactly the same except in this world, there is no fantasy-comedy movie starring Sinbad as a Genie. In this dimension, it's Shaq, but in MY FORMER DIMENSION, it was Sinbad.

You fuckers don't have perfect memories. deal with it.

Even if this Mandella effect were real, I would feel fucking ripped off. If I'm going to be transported to another dimension, I want to be able to fly. have adventures with pirates, and defeat alien invaders, all while saving metal-bikini clad bombshells
 
This is the most ridiculously boring fantasy I've ever heard of.

Oh, I was somehow transported to an alternate universe where...everything is exactly the same except in this world, there is no fantasy-comedy movie starring Sinbad as a Genie. In this dimension, it's Shaq, but in MY FORMER DIMENSION, it was Sinbad.

You fuckers don't have perfect memories. deal with it.

The Sinbad thipng I can almost understand because there was a kids movie from the 90's where he played a pocket sized alien with tech who was chasing another alien of sorts so they're simply mixing two things up so I get it.

The thing that really gets me is that our memories are not perfect. Somebody once said it was amazing we can remember anything at all because we're imprinting memories on meat when you really get down to it. But it's not just that. Your memories are made up of different elements that are stored in different areas of your brain. It's like a puzzle with all the pieces scattered around and you get a pointer to the next piece so when you put them all together you see it's a memory of a sailboat. But if one of those pointers are degraded or missing you sometimes wind up with just a fragment. You'll remember a smell, or how something felt but without context it's just ... a feeling.

It's also been shown that we don't actually remember events so much as we remember remembering events. Each time you remember something it gets rewritten as it were but what you're doing or seeing or experiencing at that point can affect your memory so much so that this new information gets imprinted along with the old and becomes a part of it. But no, it's easier to think that we're somehow special and our memories are sacrosanct and engraved in the very granite of our minds to be unchanging for the rest of time.

If that was the case, psychiatrists couldn't be accused of planting false memories in people.

Even if this Mandella effect were real, I would feel fucking ripped off. If I'm going to be transported to another dimension, I want to be able to fly. have adventures with pirates, and defeat alien invaders, all while saving metal-bikini clad bombshells
Yeah. It's always the most mundane activities or things that have changed. Like Froot Loops were called "Fruit Loops" in your dimension yet every single other thing is exactly the same. That's a pretty weak reality they lived in.
 
On the plus side, I could use this to win arguments with my wife.

"No, honey, you didn't ask me to pick up milk and I forgot. See, I was transported here, from an alternate dimension. The dimension I come from involves YOU FORGETTING to ask ME to get milk. So you see, there was no way I could have known. Now, I think someone owes me an apology".

It's FLAWLESS!
 
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