The bizzare phenomenon/mental trickery of the Mandela effect

[ADFSDF1996]

The Mandela effect is a very unusual phenomenon that happens to many people. In which they remember things differently, logically it's known as false memory in the scientific community. Conspiracy theorists claim it's "proof" of parallel universes. The Mandela effect gets it's name from a conspiracy theory that Nelson Mandela died in 1991. I'm not going to discuss whether or not the Mandela effect has some unexplainable element to it, although I personally think it’s “false memory” I'm just going to give specific examples. The Mandela effect/false memory scenarios vary from person to person.

1.)Berenstain/Berenstein bears: My friend brought this up the other day, he asked me to spell out the name of this book. So I spelled it out "Berenstein", that's

when he told me it's actually "Berenstain". This actually shocked me, all along I've been misspelling the name of the book.

2.)Matrix interrogation: Mandela effect can also happen in movie scenes. For me, this is probably the first ever Mandela effect occurrence that I remember. I originally remember neo(main protagonist) wearing a black trench coat and black slacks in this scene, when the two agents expose his bare abdomen and hold him down and implant the bug, I remembered a robotic centipede going into his navel and I also don't remember his lips being fused shut.

In the real movie scene, Neo(protagonist) was wearing a white buttoned down long sleeve shirt and a pair of black corduroy pants, his lips were also magically fused shut and instead of a robotic centipede being implanted in him, it's actually a hybrid of a robotic shrimp and dragonfly.

3.)fruit/froot loops: I remembered it as fruit loops but then I payed closer attention and realized it's actually Froot Loops.

4.)007 Moonraker, Jaws meets Dolly: This movie scene is a "bad guy gone good" scene in which the towering henchman with metal teeth known as Jaws shows signs of a change of heart when he meets Dolly. Most people, myself included remember Dolly wearing braces but in the actual scene, she isn't wearing braces.

5.)looney tunes/toons: A bizzare occurrence in which some people remember it being spelled looney toons but in reality it's spelled as looney tunes.

6.) Hitler’s mustache and eye color: When I was little, I remember skimming through a history book that talked about Hitler. The Mandela effect is how I remember Hitler’s mustache, I remember Hitler having a thin mustache but recently I watched documentaries that talk about Hitler and his mustache is thicker.

The other Mandela effect that some people noticed is his eye color. Some people think Hitler had brown eyes but in reality he had blue eyes as can be seen in some colorized photos of him and it’s also been confirmed from people who met him face to face.

7.)Cheez it: Some people remember it as “Cheez its”.

8.)Goldfinger: I remember watching this movie on TV on various occasions when I was younger, I remember Roger Moore acting in it but then I saw that it was actually Sean Connery who acted in it. I think this is because I watched some of Roger Moore’s James Bond films before this.

9.)chick fil A or Chic fil A: I personally keep thinking it’s “chic fil A” but it’s actually Chick fil A

[Anonymous]

hey, that was a fun and weird read!

[lumos]

I don't think the Mandela effect is all that bizarre, at least not when it comes to logos, spelling and character design (some people have also, for instance, claimed that Pikachu used to have a black tip on its tail - which is bullshit and as a huge Pokémon fan I'm offended lol). It's just stuff we get so used to that we don't really pay attention to it, but when we really focus we might get that confused feeling of "I could've sworn it was this and not that".
When you think about it, like 99% of the time there's a reasonable explanation for it. "Sex and the city" is also a Mandela effect because people have argued if it's "in" or "and". But if you say it fast, sorta like Sex 'n' the City, the "n" could easily be interpreted as "in", thus creating the confusion if you're not paying enough attention.
I think it's kinda funny but in the long run it's annoying how people try to read too much into it with the whole parallel universe theory. We as humans are flawed, our memories are flawed, and thus it's not so weird at all that we might remember things wrong. It's also not weird that we remember things wrong collectively when it comes to things such as pop culture - movies, songs, series, names, logos etc. A lot of us have grown up with these things, so first off it's not so weird that our memories might be incorrect. Second, as kids we often focus more on pronunciation over spelling, which would explain why a lot of these logos don't make sense when you do a double take.
As for remembering things wrong when it comes to scenes or characters in movies, it just goes to show how humans are flawed and how we sometimes add things or forget things to our own memories. I remember reading or hearing somewhere that whenever you revisit a memory, it's not completely the same as the last time you did. Like every time you think of a memory, something has changed about it, even if it's the tiniest thing, because that's just how our mind works. So over time it's completely normal for your memories to gradually change in some way.

[ATuairiscean]

Believe or not this has been going on a long time - One of the famous quotes from Shakespeare "Hamlet" is remembered globally as "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him WELL, Horatio" , the actual line is "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio" - Another one is James Cagney catchphrase "Ya Dirty Rat", in no movie did James Cagney ever say "Ya Dirty Rat".

[CellOutSouledOut]

The Mandela effect is real, and ever since the scientists started testing with that damned CERN particle accelerator, it has caused folks from different universes/alternate realities to come into this one, and we are all individually jumping from one reality to the next all the time. Ponder this: your mother, father, and husband/wife might not be the same individuals from YOUR universe...

[Yuki_JPN]

oh,,, my

[ADFSDF1996]

Can you translate it please?

[Yuki_JPN]

"Heil Hitler to Bath"(literal translation)

[Yuki_JPN]

it's little strange japanese😅

[ADFSDF1996]

Thanks LOL😄.

[Agent]

#2 was definitely false memory (in your case). I remember that scene very clearly from many years ago. The way it is right now is how it's always been.

[zagor]

I'm not sure why Mandela's name is attached to it. I never heard or thought he was dead, and neither did anyone I know of, until he actually died a couple years ago. Must have been a limited rumor.

[Anonymous]

Good take