Have you heard of the Mandela effect? (1081 views, 30 replies)
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* The Mandela effect is the pseudoscientific belief that some differences between one's memories and the real world are caused by changes to past events in the timeline. Many Mandela effect believers believe it is caused by accidental travel between alternate universes, although some others propose that history has been deliberately altered after the fact by malicious extradimensional beings within the same timeline or by experiments at CERN.
It was named after Nelson Mandela, whom some people erroneously believed to have died in prison in the 1980s. (Instead see Steve Biko, who did die in prison and even had a moviemade about him starring Denzel Washington.) Another common false memory is thinking the title of the children's book series The Berenstain Bears is spelled as The Berenstein Bears.[1][2]
The Mandela effect has not been explored by mainstream, peer-reviewed publications, and the claim that some false memories are caused by parallel dimensions going berserk is, shall we say, difficult to falsify.
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God
@ it looks like a "state of ongoing action" was continually done IN THE PAST..
But it is"she always said-"more than one time in the past."-
-that is a type of ""continued activity in the past",requires special form in several languages.
(but your answer is"it means she said it in past, not now."She is not doing it now.
@clarachan1355 What I wrote is merely from the script and my interpretation (sans any silly Mandela Effect theory) is that mama said it in the past, but it still holds true in the present.
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guru
God
@bondojoe "lie down with"is correct.You don't LAY DOWN YOURSELF to the couch,you lie down.You can LAY DOWN YOUR GUN.--that's the difference.--
God
In Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, when the show started. did Mr Rogers sing...It's a beautiful day in the neigborhood"...or did he say .."It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood"?
God
@bondojoe That concept that other universes interfere here, is not proved in any tests,analysis, or any type of real witness,no photos or noise recording, ect.--They are not scientifically proving it!
master
@fortunate1 Haha neither do the people who believe in the theory. They used to be called "special", now everyone wants to be like them.
Lol
guru
@CollideDuhScope It's not just that people remember different words...it's that they remember the EXEACT SAME different words. I always thought it was " "luke I am your father" too.
@bondojoe People have a tendency to drop words when talking about scenes, or words get dropped when passed from one source to a secondary source. For example, in the movie you'd hear Darth Vader say "No, I am your father". Then when you repeat the quote to someone else you might reference Darth Vader talking to Luke "I am your father". Eventually the quote might end up as Darth Vader saying "Luke, I am your father" and not "No, I am your father". If that gets passed around enough, it wouldn't be hard for everyone to mistakenly believe the actual quote is "Luke, I am your father" instead of "No, I am your father." A lot of quotes people use are misquotes of what was actually said, and they all use the same errors because the quote gets repeated so often.
guru
The Berenstein Bears one would be more of a false correction than a false memory. The human mind is designed to find familiar patterns and will see unusual spellings as a mistake and recall it in it's supposedly correct form. Memory is not perfect, it's filtered through our own biases and learned patterns. Believing that it is caused by altered time/space streams is showing a lack of understanding of, well, reality.
skilled
I could and apparently a lot of others, remember the the series Project UFO was actually called Project Blue Book. So thought the new series was the second to use the name.
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God
Does anyone here eat Raisin Bran..or remember the box? Do you remember the sun on the box wearing sunglasses? If so...what color?
skilled
Sounds like the premise for Season 2 of the Umbrella Academy lol.
Seriously very interesting though. Alternate History has always been fascinating to me so the idea of things being altered in our own History with only some people noticing it, while direct from a Star Trek episode, really holds intriguing premise.
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Have you experienced it? Do you believe it? Here's an example...What does Forrest Gump say, in the movie, Forrest Gump? "Life is like a box of chocolates....You never know what you're gonna get." OR...""Life was like a box of chocolates....You never know what you're gonna get." . OK...which is it?