Mandela Effect

[Manfred Belheim]

What the hell are these Berenstein Bears?

 

[BenitoChavez]

Berenstain Bears. They're children books about cartoon bears who learn valuable life lessons and such

As for this "Mandela Effect" is just people remembering what they want to remember rather than what actually happened. No need to invoke robotic overlords enslaving us to use as batteries.

 

[warpus]

How does everyone here remember the spelling of Fruit Loops?

Froot Loops or Fruit Loops?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

 

[Joecoolyo]

^Hobbs has it

 

[warpus]

See, I have a "clear" memory of it always being Fruit loops, until I discovered the mandela effect and saw that people were claiming that it is now spelled Froot Loops. So I checked and sure enough, I found exactly what you posted, hobbsyoyo.

So I started googling to figure out when they changed the name, but it seems like it's always been Froot. Which is weird, because I only ever remember Fruit.

But yeah, that's the human brain for you, I guess

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Maybe it's marketed differently in Canada?

 

[warpus]

Nah, according to the internet the name "Fruit Loops" was never used anywhere. It was a bit creepy for a while, but I'm over it. Putting it down to a "weird" brain, but it still seems a bit odd when I look at that logo you posted.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

This just seems to be mainly about spelling things incorrectly. I'm sure there must be millions of people out there from an parallel world where "tongue" was always spelt "tounge".

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I always thought the song 'Sliver' by Nirvana was actually spelled 'Silver' until I looked at the box for the upteenth time. Then I read somewhere that Kurt Cobain intentionally called it Sliver to trick people into thinking it was Silver as some sort of weird social experiment.

 

[Hygro]

Fruit Luips.

 

[Silurian]

It does make you realise how miscarriages of justice can take place. Everybody’s memory can be distorted.

 

[Borachio]

There're two different things at play here, I think.

One is people's mistaken memory of events, or of things people say. Like "Play it again, Sam."

The other is that the universe is a really weird place, and things don't necessarily happen in a strict causal sequence. Even though we assume that they do.

 

[warpus]

I think our brains are a much weirder place than the universe, and that's why all of this stuff is happening. But I mean, our brains are a part of the universe, so that doesn't even make sense, I suppose.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I had to look up Mandela Effect. I sort of wish I hadn't. At first, it looked like it might be some kind of fun sci-fi game, like spotting all the "Easter Eggs" in an episode of Fringe. But the more I read, the more it just looks like somebody came up with a fancy name for their poor memory.

 

[warpus]

The silliest part of the Mandela effect thing is that some people "seem to remember" New Zealand being much larger or something, islands being in different places, etc. Hmm maybe it's not New Zealand. Maybe it was Japan. Either way, that part is silly.

But some of it actually sounds.. almost intriguing. I mean, even if a couple people remember Mandela dying a while ago, why would so many people think that? Was there a fake news report out? Was it somebody with a similar name who died who they are confusing him with?

I mean, it's probably nothing, but it's a bit interesting anyway.

 

[EgonSpengler]

People's memories are so poor, it's almost shocking. I think we're not too far from having "eye witness" testimony become inadmissible as evidence in courts of law, because it's so unreliable. Within minutes of the planes hitting the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11, people were saying they heard news reports of planes hitting the White House, Camp David, and the Golden Gate Bridge.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Well I think the Mandela effect also is about how a misrememnerance is spread and becomes widely accepted while obviously being not true

like the starwars quote I mentioned earlier

 

[LucyDuke]

See, I have a "clear" memory of it always being Fruit loops, until I discovered the mandela effect and saw that people were claiming that it is now spelled Froot Loops. So I checked and sure enough, I found exactly what you posted, hobbsyoyo.

So I started googling to figure out when they changed the name, but it seems like it's always been Froot. Which is weird, because I only ever remember Fruit.

But yeah, that's the human brain for you, I guess

Autocorrect bro. In your brain.

 

[warpus]

Yeah, probably. I watched a documentary 2 days ago about how exactly a memory is recalled, when we think back to something. Well, apparently the entire memory gets retrieved, then re-wired from scratch... so... things can change each time you think back to something.

What I find odd is that so many people seem to fixate on certain specific examples of this, such as Mandela or Froot Loops. I get that the brain isn't perfect and that we often misremember stuff, but why is the Mandela thing so common? Or the other ones? It seems a bit odd. Not that I think there's anything supernatural or matrix-like going on.