I can’t remember where I put my keys. Is that the Mandela Effect again.
No, the Mandela Effect is when you’re certain your door key is brass-colored and it’s been brass colored ever since you got it years ago; but when you pull it out of your pocket and look at it, it’s silver-colored.
That sounds like dementia to me.
Well strictly I suppose it has to something that more than one person is certain of to qualify as the Mandela Effect rather than dementia.
To be honest, I never understood the “Mandela” part of the Mandela effect. Like, people actually thought he had died in prison? Doesn’t everyone remember the very prominent news about him becoming president of South Africa?
There’s a little more too it…and you KNOW its brass colored because for years you and your best friend you havent spoken to in years would sing Brass Monkey because of the set of keys.
I’d buy this as an effect if I didn’t just simply see it as “a bunch of idiots cannot tell the difference between Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela and are really really stubborn that they’re not racists, idiots or both”.
Three things about the Mandela Effect:
1. Why are so many of these minor visual details about something, or spelling? Where are the people who remember different major historical events or completely different countries?
2. How does the changeover between realities work? Do people physically enter the new reality, and if so, when? If it’s a retroactive change, why doesn’t it affect everybody? Did Mandela in the new reality have memories of his own death in prison?
In my reality you had three things not two.
Here’s one I’ve encountered
Kevin Costner was the German sniper in Saving Private Ryan. Now he’s not.
Ann Jillian died of breast cancer. That’s why she fell off the face of the earth. now she didn’t. She did get breast cancer but she didnt die.
Because it’s usually parodies being misremembered, and people can’t spell. Especially people with “mental focus problems” (ie: schizophreniacs)
You stop taking your anti-schizophrenia medication.
I could swear that there used to be Mandela effects related to major historical events. Some of my friends remember this too. But now I can’t find any examples. It’s really weird.
I mean… it is named after a major historical event that people misremembered.
A new one to me is from Moonraker. Jaws’ new girlfriend in the movie DOES NOT have braces… a lot of people remember the reveal of her having braces as being a big cute moment in the movie. I even did…but after having watched the scene again, I think people are experiencing a kind of “fill in the blank.” The scene would be so much better if she DID have braces. So peoples’ internal screenwriters corrected the actual movie’s mistake.
I THOUGHT I added “(Mandela aside)”, but this is obviously the universe in which I decided not to, despite anticipating that someone would remind us that the phenomenon is admittedly named in reference to Nelson Mandela. And, well, here we are.
The irony…some people remember your post as saying “Mandala aside.”
And I’ve always thought Mandala Effect actually worked just as well as a descriptor.
I’ve always thought it was the Mandala Effect, about how we go back to check the patterns they are always different than what we remembered.
I don’t believe in the Mandela effect, and I have a case of it, which when having asked around, got solved.
During the film Man bites dog, I remember a bit where they’re throwing a corpse off a bridge. On a rewatch of that film, the scene wasn’t there,
I asked around, and someone pointed out that the first episode of The Sopranos has such a scene.
The explanation was simple, I’d watched both movies/shows around the same time and the similar horrible scenes had merged across into a single memory.
It was my mistake of my memory. Possibly merged in a dream, when my mind was garbage collecting. No reality altering explanation. Memory is hazy. But, hell, let’s have a weird reality altering theory, based on The Matrix starring Samuel L. Jackson.
So THAT’S why I remember Samuel L. Jackson playing Cowboy Carl on Pee Wee’s Playhouse!
None exist…in this universe.
I my universe it was Mandela effect. The mandala effect is when you spin a black and white Hindu symbol fast and it turns to color.
You almost got it right.
In CUBE, the stars are Nicole “Ezri Dax” de Boer (Deep Space Nine), and David Hewlett, Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantis
The guy from Forever Night was in the sequel, Hypercube
BTW…
Does anybody remember in Star Trek:The Voyage Home…when Kirk and the gang were breaking Chekov out of the hospital, and some doctor tries to call security, Kirk applies the “Famous Spock Nerve Pinch” and knocks him out…and stares at his hand like he couldn’t believe it actually worked.
I found not a single video of that scene ANYWHERE…I’m SURE I’ve seen it in the movies.