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What are your experiences with the Mandela Effect?

See title. For those who don’t know, the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large group of people remember something differently than how it occurred. It’s named after Nelson Mandela because a significant number of people remembered him dying in prison in the 1980s, even though he actually passed away in 2013.

I’m curious to hear about your personal experiences with this phenomenon. Have you ever remembered an event, fact, or detail that turned out to be different from reality? What was it and how did you react when you found out your memory didn’t align with the facts? Does it happen often?

nycki ,

I had some Berenstain Bears books as a kid and I remember noting at the time “huh, weird name but okay”. So like, I don’t get why people think it was “Berenstein”? It looks wrong, but it’s always looked wrong.

Bitrot ,
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We knew the title and didn’t look that closely.

TheDarkestShark ,

Here’s one I just experienced, was watching Star Wars: A New Hope and my brother asked me if I remember C-3PO every having a silver leg. I told him no, hes always been all gold. Next scene we watched his right leg from the knee down was all silver. Like wtf never have I noticed that before, I said meh maybe it was a Lucas later edit. Revenge of the Sith comes on the TV next and C-3PO’s leg is so vibrantly silver that I could not even comprehend not noticing that contrast in past viewings.

Bitrot ,
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I only ever really noticed it in the desert scene after the escape pod, when he’s arguing with R2. It looks silver there, the rest of the time it looks gold. I think I probably assumed it was some video quality thing, either on my TV or that a lot of movies from that time period have weird quirky video. Like Logan’s Run was the year before Star Wars and if something gold sometimes looked silver, I wouldn’t really even notice, that’s just how a movie from the 70s looks.

pelletbucket ,

it’s because we were watching it on 21" televisions from VHS

General_Shenanigans ,

I could’ve sworn Jim Beam whiskey was Jim Bean. A friend of mine had a poster of a whiskey bottle on his wall that I stared at every time I was there. He was a minor at the time and didn’t drink, so I always wondered why he had it up. Years later I saw a Jim Beam bottle and had a Mandela moment. The Berenstein Bears and Mandela dying in jail were things I believed, too, but I think the whiskey one is one I haven’t heard from anybody else, yet.

vladmech ,

I had to go look it up to double check you weren’t trying to pull a fast one; I was 100% sure it was Bean.

Resol ,
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I genuinely remembered there were 5 main characters in the Little Einsteins cast, even though there were only 4.

I guess I was imagining random weirdness.

aluminium ,

For me its the the Yellow sign on the Standoff Map in Call of Duty Black Ops 2.

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