Do you believe in the Mandela Effect?

[Megas 28,387]

I feel like a lot of the Manela Effect can just be taken as misconceptions that multiple people made that wound up catching on. A lot of these cases just sound like assumptions or misinterpretations of spellings, words and pictures because your brain just tells you something else. Sex And the City vs Sex in the City, Febreze vs Febreeze, Bearenstein vs Bearenstain, and the like are pretty easy to mix up. People say Jiffy was the name of the peanut butter and not Jif, but they could be getting it confused with Skippy.

Only real notable instance of the Mandela Effect is with titular Mandela, because that's just something too big of an event to be misinterpreted. Seems pretty wild that people swear that he died in prison when all records and personal accounts point say he was released and lived for another 20+ years

Edited February 9, 2022 by Megas

[Sovereign Leader Rarity 12,026]

13 hours ago, Kaitlynne said:

 

Prove there are no parallel universes/ realities 

I can't, much like how you can't prove that there are. This comment was made years ago, and I'm a lot more open-minded these days. There could be parallel universes out there, a part of me hopes that they do exist, and I can have a No Way Home Situation on my hands at some point in my life. But, I'm a skeptic at heart, and evidence for this theory isn't very compelling in my opinion. I am open to changing my tune on this matter though.

[Evil Pink One 13,556]

usually when you tell someone something. it tends to happen. like karma, deeds, patience and scientific analysis, and Mandela effects and what not

[Prospekt 11,039]

Still do, though I have no idea about the mechanism behind it. Could be converging timelines, alternate universes... I think quantum mechanics will one day shed more light on them, and that could be the key to understanding this

[Tacodidra 61,948]

No, I definitely don't believe in the thing about timelines changing and such. But I think a lot of people misremembering the same things is still a fascinating phenomenon. They just tend to be fairly unremarkable stuff that's either really easy to confuse (similarly pronounced words or intentional misspellings), practically impossible to remember (singular scenes or even lines in movies) or the kind of things you wouldn't really pay attention to (if you watch a cartoon, you're more likely to look at a cartoon character's face than their tail if they have one).

One thing I can say is that the spelling-related ones aren't ones that have affected me. Like the Looney Tunes example in the first post – I was obsessed with Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner before I could even speak English, so I didn't even connect the word "tunes" in the name to any meaning, I just knew that was the title. And when I started learning English, I would always memorize both the spelling and pronunciation of each word separately.