The Mandela Effect Possible Explanation

[LittleSally]

The Mandela effect: "Is where a bunch of people remember something clearly that actually never really happened in this alternate reality that we are now in."

Since everyone is going crazy over this...I thought I'd weigh in. Yeah, people seem to think they've seen all of these things in one way and then years later they're shocked when what they've 'known' forever doesn't hold up to what they actually remember.

Some think it is a parallel universe issue: we've somehow entered into another parallel universe at one point and now what we used to know is no longer a fact but something we miss-remember, i.e., at one point in time what we remember now used to be true...but no longer is due to something that happened in the world that changed the course of our timeline.

But - the more reasonable explanation (although no one disputes the existence of many different universes that could indeed be parallel) is probably that these people miss-remember what actually happened or they never knew the actual facts in the first place or that these things actually did change - for no big reason...they just did - consciously by their makers, but they don't want to say so, because they hope no one notices the difference, but that it'll somehow help their sales...and that's that.

[Zorax]

Parallel Universe? I guess that's one possibility, but science still has to find a way to prove the existence of parallel universes. Personally, I think you have a good point, I know there are other ways to explain such disturbances in memory, but I was always prone to believe in the Multiverse theory, it's logical... somehow. Interesting Take, very intriguing. 👽

[MaiNameIsSunshine]

I think it's just the misinformation effect on a large scale. I know many people who remember things being spelled as they are now.

[genuinlysensitive]

Parallel Universes are a possibility. However it is more likely, especially given the examples you gave that they are just misspellings and mispronunciations. The most puzzling one of the supposed "mandela effect" at least for me was the "Berenstain/Bernstien" Bears pronunciation. Until you find out that there was a popular cartoon of the Berenstain (As it is on the book) Bears where they (for whatever reason) decided to pronounce it "Bernstien Bears". It caught on many people recommended the books to their friends as "Bernstien Bears" and read it to their children as "Bernstien Bears".

[oddwaffle]

Umm... Not really true.

We remember stuff, we just don't remember them clearly enough for us to be sure. We will hop on to the next most plausible case and stick to them even if we are not sure.

This is because how we function. We don't remember the whole thing. We remember fragments and we 'fill in the gap' with logic and imagination. We, then, are convinced or at least try to convince people with this fragments and imagination. This is also why witness testimony get a lot of scrutiny.

There was a study done about how people read. People only read a couple characters in the front and at the end of a word while ignoring any mistakes or typos in the middle.

[mike5150]

Funny enough about a week ago a friend of mine asked me if I remembered the name of that Sinbad movie from the 90's where he played a genie. Oddly enough the picture of him dressed as a Genie came to my mind as if I remembered it myself, or at least seen the picture on a poster before. I tried looking it up on my phone only to realize he never was in any sort of movie. The thing I have noticed about memories, is that the longer we go from the actual event, the more holes in are actual memory there are. Are mind can visually fill those holes with what we believe to be the truth, but that's not always the case.

[levantine99]

the most sound scientific explanation about it is the distortion of a similar memory or even making a collage of several, unrelated with each other memories.

[Mynameisnottolong]

Looney tunes makes no sense at all considering tunes implies to music. What about the kids book with the bear family in it? Is it berstien bears or bernstain bears?

[HorrorFan]

Well, it was 100% BerenSTEIN Bears when I was growing up, not fucking BerenSTAIN Bears.

So yeah, 100% parallel universe theory.

[JustinTheGreat]

For a lot of them, I think there is always an explanation.
Like the LooneyTunes, it makes sense for people to get confused and think its Toons. Because they are carTOONS.

[abundantlyrich]

This is definitely not what people want to read here. Its all about sex here.

[jacquesvol]

Big question: do Trump's 'alternative' facts refer to a parallel world he lives in or are they lies?

[CirqueDeLaCriox]

I swear i read the Berenstein Bears, not the Berestain Bears but then i look at it and wonder if i just looked at it wrong.

[Valkyrie1]

The Mandela Effect is fake.

[LittleSally]

So you haven't read what I wrote... Nice to know.

[Valkyrie1]

I read most of it just sounds like your entertaining the possible until the very last paragraph.

[YourFutureEx]

I didn't quite get it but it seems so interesting.

[ISaythereaint]

Yes it is true.