The Mandela Effect - Quick definition: when a large group of people all share the same details of a fundamental misremembering of a basic fact, many times a major news or historical event (e.g. the faulty memory of many people of Nelson Mandela dying in prison sometime in the 80's) and the theories run the gamut from the psychological (e.g. confabulation) which is the consensus to quantum physics and even the paranormal. I paused doing an exclusive post on this because of the obvious tinfoil hat implications but can reality be altered? Honestly that's up to God but as of now it's still all theory and speculation and megaboards on reddit and sites devoted exclusively to debunking every Mandela Effect that commenters post and everyone has an opinion. So the founder of D-Wave Quantum Computers, Geordie Rose in a noted lecture mentioned in passing harnessing the power of parallel universes and we got Stephen Hawking talking about stuff and so the layman or laywoman comes along and adds his or her two cents. Things seem to change over time imo. In the old campy horror movie
Frogs (1972) I remember as a kid the old lady chasing a butterfly in the woods dies in quicksand, in the dvd she gets bit by a rattlesnake and dies. Actually you can see a bit of the quicksand scene in the trailer and it also comes up in a Google image search. Growing up I and a few others always thought of the colon as the lower part of the large intestine, the part that connects to the rectum so imagine my horror and dismay when my doctor explained about the rest of the plumbing involved in the colonoscopic experience. For years since I can remember Haddaway sings "what is love? lady don't hurt me" because he's aching about an unrequited love but quite alot of people always heard it as "baby" and so there's a thread about that. OK not earth-shattering and we have an important election coming up but I think different philosophies drive the various forum members passionately devoted to the topic. The official skeptics see their role I guess as to shoot down any and all new M.E.'s readers post about. I think the attitude on the part of the rationalists is our reality may be horrible but it's our reality and we're used to it. The paranormalists for lack of a better word post about anything and everything to make it ripe for an
Onion parody: Thread - First Star Wars movie came out in 1947 and starred Humphrey Bogart. The shrink class while enlightening also can't explain how a mass of people actually once upon a time mass hallucinated or visually confabulated actual news coverage of Mandela dying in prison in the '80s and the whole funeral and aftermath. C'mon I know memory is fallible, complex and tricky and all that but this is kind of unsettling, unnerving and creepy to many people. Any Mandela Effects of your own?