# Mandela Effect Examples **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 11, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954 "2019-03-11T16:41:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/21 "2019-03-12T18:44:30Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I’m positive my memory is correct. It happened just this morning as I described in the OP, I put my phone down on the dining room table and when I went to get it it turned out to be in my pocket! I wouldn’t forget details like that. Is there a name for the memories of something you do over and over the same way crowding out the memory of doing it slightly differently but more recently? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked out of work into the (fairly large) parking lot to the section I almost always park my car, looked around for it and had a not insignificant moment of panic (with the thought that my car must have been stolen!) before realizing I had parked it somewhere else on the lot that day. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/22 "2019-03-12T18:48:47Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Is there a name for the memories of something you do over and over the same way crowding out the memory of doing it slightly differently but more recently? > > I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked out of work into the (fairly large) parking lot to the section I almost always park my car, looked around for it and had a not insignificant moment of panic (with the thought that my car must have been stolen!) before realizing I had parked it somewhere else on the lot that day. Or…did you simply rationalize the result of your car passing through parallel universes by convincing yourself you parked in a different spot? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/23 "2019-03-12T18:50:31Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Kidding aside, I can think of dozens just off the top of my head. > > No one said, “Play it again, Sam” in _Casablanca_. > Darth Vader never said, “Luke, I am your father.” > Mae West never said, “Come up and see me some time.” > > …and those are just a few. > > My favorite is a source of consternation in my house. Mrs. Homie swears up & down that Cameron originally said, “My mom’s in Decatur” in _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_, but that it was changed to “She’s in Decatur” (which is what he actually said) because reasons. And surely you can tell those couldn’t be simple incorrect memories. Aliens messing with your brain is the only possible cause. Hey wait! That guy with the tinfoil face, it was on the lower half of his face, his brain isn’t protected at all! ---
**Author:** ![Garak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Garak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garak)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/24 "2019-03-12T18:53:19Z")
what I don’t get about the “Mandela effect” is if Nelson Mandela had died in prison in the 80s would he ever have been famous or his death notable worldwide? Were Americans aware of him in the 80s? ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/25 "2019-03-12T19:13:12Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > And surely you can tell those couldn’t be simple incorrect memories. Aliens messing with your brain is the only possible cause. > > Hey wait! That guy with the tinfoil face, it was on the lower half of his face, his brain isn’t protected at all! To hear Mrs. Homie tell it, it’s not aliens. It’s that there are multiple parallel universes existing alongside one another (which I’m not saying is true or not true, because I don’t understand physics), and we jump between them without knowing it. In the universe we’re (currently) in, Cameron said, “She’s in Decatur.” But in the universe she and I were in in the 80’s (we’ve jumped, you see), Cameron said, “My mom’s in Decatur.” ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/26 "2019-03-12T19:16:37Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > To hear Mrs. Homie tell it, it’s not aliens. It’s that there are multiple parallel universes existing alongside one another (which I’m not saying is true or not true, because I don’t understand physics), and we jump between them without knowing it. In the universe we’re (currently) in, Cameron said, “She’s in Decatur.” But in the universe she and I were in in the 80’s (we’ve jumped, you see), Cameron said, “My mom’s in Decatur.” Have you ever looked at an analog clock with a second hand and see what appears to be the second hand moving backwards one tick? THAT’S when you jump universes (or so I think). ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/27 "2019-03-12T19:39:19Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Have you ever looked at an analog clock with a second hand and see what appears to be the second hand moving backwards one tick? THAT’S when you jump universes (or so I think). Seems legit. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/28 "2019-03-12T19:42:36Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Or…did you simply rationalize the result of your car passing through parallel universes by convincing yourself you parked in a different spot? See, by Occam’s Razor, this is the much more plausible explanation. Yet foolish people constantly make the incredible leap of logic that “I parked somewhere else today.” Whenever you see something that you can’t easily explain, the go-to culprit is parallel universes. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/29 "2019-03-12T20:17:22Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Have you ever looked at an analog clock with a second hand and see what appears to be the second hand moving backwards one tick? THAT’S when you jump universes (or so I think). One night a coworker and I were in the office late (around midnight). They were doing some maintenance on the network that night, and we had to do some testing when it was completed. At some point I looked up at the wall clock and noticed it was about an hour and a half behind. Just as I mentioned to my coworker “Boy that clock sure is off”, all of a sudden the hands started moving around until it got to the correct time! Freaked us both right the fuck out. And it wasn’t a clock that was wired into anything, just your standard off-the-shelf Staples wall clock. I figured it had to be some kind of rift in the space-time continuum. Sure would explain a lot. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/30 "2019-03-12T20:18:50Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I figured it had to be some kind of rift in the space-time continuum. Sure would explain a lot. Shazam! How could anyone still be skeptical when we know things like this happen? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/31 "2019-03-12T20:43:21Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I figured it had to be some kind of rift in the space-time continuum. Sure would explain a lot. Even caught on [video](https://youtu.be/k2HEveT7xeI?t=48s) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/32 "2019-03-12T20:43:50Z")
When I first heard the term I understood the concept but I couldn’t understand not knowing that Nelson Mandela survived prison and became the leader of his country. It wasn’t exactly a secret. > [@kunilou](#): > > I suffer from reverse Mandela Effect. I didn’t see things that everyone else did. > > I did not see man walk on the Moon for the first time. I was two. Maybe I was near a TV? I do remember seeing a moon mission on TV but it was probably the last one. > [@kunilou](#): > > I did not see the Challenger blow up on live TV. I definitely did not see that live. I was at the gym in college. The radio was on. The DJ came on and said what happened. > [@kunilou](#): > > I did not see the second plane hit the WTC. I’m not saying these things didn’t actually happen. I’m just saying I didn’t see them live when everyone else in the world says they did. That I definitely did see. I immediately got up and started packing my Army gear. I knew I would be busy. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/33 "2019-03-13T00:09:10Z")
I thought the producers of Captain Marvel had made a mistake by including I’m Just A Girl I’m a movie that was set in 1995. I remember the song as having been released in 1999 or 2000, but it turns out that it was in fact released in 1995. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/34 "2019-03-13T00:11:01Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I always liked the explanation for Mandela Effect used in the short story \*The Forest of Time. \*That the reason so many details keep being different than we remember is because we are all constantly drifting between slightly different alternate universes; it’s not our memories that are wrong, it’s that we aren’t in the same universe we are remembering anymore. > > You didn’t misplace your car keys; _you_ are the one who has been misplaced. You didn’t misremember the eye color of your old friend, you are just speaking to a very similar but not identical person. You didn’t misremember what your wife told you to buy at the store; that was a different woman with the same name and face. > > In fact you never _actually_ meet anyone or visit anyplace twice, just an endless string of similar but not identical people & places. Something rather similar goes on in John Barnes’ novel “Finity” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/35 "2019-03-13T01:19:07Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > See, by Occam’s Razor, this is the much more plausible explanation. Yet foolish people constantly make the incredible leap of logic that “I parked somewhere else today.” > > Whenever you see something that you can’t easily explain, the go-to culprit is parallel universes. This makes sense. There’s an infinite number of parallel universes, so anytime someone asks, “What caused this,” the answer is almost always going to be “parallel universe.” That’s just basic statistics. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/36 "2019-03-13T05:22:07Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked out of work into the (fairly large) parking lot to the section I almost always park my car, looked around for it and had a not insignificant moment of panic (with the thought that my car must have been stolen!) before realizing I had parked it somewhere else on the lot that day. See, you need to make this parallel universe thing work for you. I park my car in the universe where there are always spots in front of the building. And it’s always free; I don’t think they’ve invented parking meters there. Now, the trick is walking out at the end of the day without thinking about parallel universes… if I can do that, bingo! There’s my car, right in front! ---
**Author:** ![nate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nate/32/13085_2.png) [@nate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nate)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/37 "2019-03-14T16:36:20Z")
I distinctly remember watching a sequel to the Weird Al movie UHF called ‘UHF 2’, but no one else remembers this and it’s nowhere on the internet. So yeah, that proves parallel universes exist. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/38 "2019-03-14T18:04:33Z")
I remember that a balm was a dangerous animal that could bite you. But everybody thanks it’s just an ointment. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/39 "2019-03-14T18:10:15Z")
These things happen to me too. It’s good to hear that this weird stuff happens to you guys too. I should start a thread about this someday. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954/40 "2019-03-14T18:11:38Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > These things happen to me too. It’s good to hear that this weird stuff happens to you guys too. I should start a thread about this someday. What are you talking about? I’ve been responding to that thread you started for days! Edited to add: Wait, now I can’t find that thread 😕😕😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandela-effect-examples/830954.md?page=3)