The Mandela effect is basically when you remember something a certain way but it turns out to be different.
Normally you'd think you have remembered it wrong.
But what if thousands or even millions of people remembered it the same way yet it is actually different?
So it's basically a group of people remembering false information which they think was fact.

The origin of the name "mandela effect": http://mandelaeffect.com/about/

If you google around a bit you can find more examples of this mandela effect with some of the most well known ones being:
-"Luke, I am your father." while it was actually "No, I am your father.".
-C3PO was fully gold. Then it had a silver bottom part on its leg, then it suddenly had a golden foot on that silver leg.

You can find more on the reddit page here: https://m.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/


There's a lot of different theories about these things and ofcourse not everyone believes that the mandela effect is real which is fine.
I just wonder what you guys think about this since it's been getting bigger on the internet lately with more occurences being found each day.  

So you think something is one way when it really was another? That's nothing special. I thought I had eggs for breakfast yesterday but after a little thought, I realized I actually had muffins.  

Its the Berenstein Bears not the Berenstain Bears.

Anyone who thinks its the Berenstain Bears is a lizard-human alien hybrid that is trying to take over the world by screwing with our childhood memories.  

Posted by 5hift

Its the Berenstein Bears not the Berenstain Bears.

Anyone who thinks its the Berenstain Bears is a lizard-human alien hybrid that is trying to take over the world by screwing with our childhood memories.

Who the **** thinks it was the Berenstain Bears??  

Posted by Mangsi

Who the **** thinks it was the Berenstain Bears??

Screw 9/11, this is a REAL conspiracy.
Everyone knows Bush did it. Don't kid yourself.  

It's illegal to deny the Holocaust happened in Germany  

Posted by PigParty

So you think something is one way when it really was another? That's nothing special. I thought I had eggs for breakfast yesterday but after a little thought, I realized I actually had muffins.

It's more than just not realizing what you ate, it's well known things being different or altered while remembering it clearly.

Kit-Kat -> KitKat
Looney Toons -> Looney Tunes
"On the first day of christmas my true love gave to me" -> "On the first day of christmas my true love sent to me"

People are finding more of these things quite rapidly, some things have even been changed but then changed back like "Tidy Cats" was changed to "Tidy Cat" and then back to "Tidy Cats".
It's just weird that so many people remember these "false memories" the exact same way.

Some people think there's multiple realities which all have small things different from eachother and when one of these mandela effects happens we switch to or merge with a different timeline.
Others think that reality as we know it might be a computer simulation where we co-create existence. Some wealthy people even offer money for scientist to get them out of this "matrix".

I'm personally not sure what the explanation to this or even our existence could be but I feel like our lives being a simulation of some sort could be possible since even in this world we are getting close to such technology.
Think about virtual reality, photorealistic graphics, or even the google deepmind project where they created an AI that could learn itself how to play games.


There's definitely more to life than people want us to believe and who knows, we might be getting close to discovering things  

What about Oscar Mayer lol. When I was a kid I used to always think it was Oscar Meyer.


Some people on a forum even suggested someone is going back into the past and changing **** to wake people the fk up. I mean seriously you're right dude. The thought of us being in a virtual simulation comes to my mind every day, and only when we die is when we realize the truth that our life was just a huge fantasy. I'd sure get a kick out of that.  

Worth a watch.
We are getting this far with technology so all of this is definitely possible if you think about it.
Who knows, we might even be one of the simulations of one of the quantum computers so the programmers of our reality can test things out.  

Posted by 5hift

Its the Berenstein Bears not the Berenstain Bears.

Anyone who thinks its the Berenstain Bears is a lizard-human alien hybrid that is trying to take over the world by screwing with our childhood memories.

yeah I thaught I was the only one who said berenstein bears

Posted by Eugeen

Worth a watch.
We are getting this far with technology so all of this is definitely possible if you think about it.
Who knows, we might even be one of the simulations of one of the quantum computers so the programmers of our reality can test things out.

I won't evenscan my finger on phones.
What will likely happen is that many jn our generation will do our best to stay away from the system,were gonna be telling our children not to implant chips in their brains and become part of the singularity.
Liberals of 2060 will see us as regresives and will critisize our actions,robots will gain equal rights and we will be viewed upon as delusional close minded bigots.
and there is nothing that we can do to stop it
Progress is coming they say but what are we progressing into?

We'll all be sort of like the Borg from star trek.  

Posted by Heeble

http://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19719

I wrote a comment referring to Rufus' word, but turns out that it was a picture of a world map.  

It makes sense that this would happen... Not sure how people believe in alternate realities because of this "mandela effect." It's like when someone misunderstands a song lyric and thinks its something other than what it really is. You'll sing with your friends and they'll hear you say it wrong but they don't know the actual lyric either, so they think your version is right and they pass it along too. It's like people saying "I could care less" when they really mean "I couldn't care less." One person says "I could care less" and no one thinks about it too hard, so they pass it on when they say it. People repeat what they see others say/do. It's about lack of knowledge on a topic. People spell "too" as "to" but that's because they're stupid, not because they live in an alternate reality.  

Some of these things are too iconic to just be mistaken sayings or memories  

Posted by Eugeen

Some of these things are too iconic to just be mistaken sayings or memories

Such as? I mean most can be explained in some way. I saw one post on Reddit a while back saying how a guy showed his girlfriend (who had never seen the show before as she lived in the EU) the Berenstain Bears logo and asked her to remember how it was spelled, when you spelled it back to him she spelled it as "Berenstein".

If we were plunged into an alternate reality do you not think more things would change than a hyphen in a logo or two letters in a TV shows name?  

Posted by Eugeen

Some of these things are too iconic to just be mistaken sayings or memories

I think the spelling of one of the most used words in the English language is more signifcant than looney tunes that can be understandably misunderstood as looney toons considering it is a cartoon. I have never once seen any Star Wars movies but I always thought it was "Luke, I am your father" because I heard other people say that. People imitate other people. All it takes in this day of social media is for 1 person to say "Luke" and then everyone will eventually start saying it too.