The Mandela Effect

[BeTheGoddess]

Any Brits mis-remember Captain Pugwash?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Captain_Pugwash

[l0st]

If you've ever done genealogy, you know how hard it is to find people unless they're really famous.  What's going on is that you don't have the right databases to search and some of the information isn't public.

You could find them if you trawled through the IRS database and knew their social security number.  Some of them may have gone by different names in school (my husband uses his middle name, and everyone knows him by that.  But you can't find him by that name.  Likewise, I do not use my first name... so if you knew that (from my school days), I would have "disappeared."

Women are notoriously difficult to trace simply because we weren't considered "important."  So if you knew me in grade school, I have had two marriages (divorced, then remarried) and you could never have traced me.  You could find photos of me in school books, but unless you knew how to search and where to search, you couldn't find me.

I did track down my ex-husband, who left very little footprint on the landscape...but I had some very good databases and knew how to search.  Most couldn't have found him.

So... I'm thinking you just don't have the right databases.

Hmm maybe. These are people I've found before. No creep. Like I knew their profiles and stuff. They just seem to be *gone*. I dunno. Weird times we are in IMHO.

[UltraBudgie]

ever have an experience where reality appears to have been reskinned, as it were, like a website that changes the css? textures fonts reflections all seem a little different? i did a few decades ago. all the cars on the road looked subtly different, the way light worked especially with subtle specular reflections had changed, went into a store and everything on the shelf looked fake. peoples faces seemed to work weird. maybe it was a brain thing i dunno. just was thinking well mebbe that was a mandella effect cept with the style sheet instead of the content, ya know?

[Unknownparadox]

ever have an experience where reality appears to have been reskinned, as it were, like a website that changes the css? textures fonts reflections all seem a little different? i did a few decades ago. all the cars on the road looked subtly different, the way light worked especially with subtle specular reflections had changed, went into a store and everything on the shelf looked fake. peoples faces seemed to work weird. maybe it was a brain thing i dunno. just was thinking well mebbe that was a mandella effect cept with the style sheet instead of the content, ya know?

I work construction, last October I started a job  near a barge that has been permanently docked, and turned into a restaurant/bar boat refueling station. The first day on the job I left about 1pm after delving everything I needed and setting it up for the next day, the person helping me and I, decided we would stop and eat at the restaurant, as it was supposedly great food. There was maybe 10-12 people in the place, they had a really nice open deck area over looking the river. But it was a little to cool to sit outside, about 50 cloudy and breezy. We ordered a couple burgers ate and left.

About 3 weeks later we had completed the job and was hauling off the last of the equipment, it was on a Friday around 1:30 PM. We didn't take a lunch brake, having decided we would stop at the restaurant again on the way out. When we went inside, there was only few people behind the bar, no one said anything to us, so we sat down at the same table as last time. And waited for quite some time, before a lady came out and explained to us. They weren't open for lunch, they were there preparing for Friday night, and was only open on Friday and Saturday nights at the end of summer in September. Because they didn't have many customers during the day in fall and winter, thanks to the cooler weather.

I told the woman we had ate lunch there 3 weeks ago, and so did my help. She looked at us like we were crazy, and said no you ate some where else. I said no we came in here and ate 3 weeks ago, at that point I thought I was going to have to fight the woman. She come unglued and said we have never been open for lunch after summer ends, there just isn't enough money in it. So we got up and left, and was just a baffled by the incident as she was, probably more so. I know we went in there and ate, and so did my help, the food was pretty good, but it was way over priced. I had almost 50$ tied up in 2 burgers, 2 fries, 2 drinks, and a tip.

[Karl12]

Just read the C3P0 'silver leg' one - bonkers lol

[CrastneyJPR]

I have my own version of an ME - my parents are in their late 70s early 80s, we've recently had a few major events where friends/family got together.  We (my brother and I) were introduced to an elderly couple, who apparently she was in maternity the same time as my mom was when she had my brother, so she has a child the same age as my older brother.  My mom acted as if we both knew this couple, but honestly I'd never heard of them before.  My mom and this lady (who's name escapes me now), seemed to be friends who had kept in touch over 40+ years, but not only had I never seen them before I had no recollection of ever hearing about them in conversations (which you'd think would be normal right?).  I do remember that there was a woman in maternity the same time as my brother was born, and I know the name of her son, and we used to go to their house, and his dad smoked a pipe, and we'd do train impressions with it.  I know their surname, we would see them often when we lived reasonably close, I kept up to date with what they were doing, the couple split up and divorced, and we all lost touch.  But during all that time I don't ever recall knowing or hearing about another woman also in maternity at the same time, who apparently was just as close a friend as the people I do remember.
maybe it's selective memory of things that are important to me at the time I experience them...?  and these people just weren't on my radar?  but I find that hard to believe that I've never heard anything, or don't recall knowing about them till a few years ago, when suddenly they're at two or three family events, as if they're very close friends.
weird.

There was a thread on ATS about a bloke who remembered playing in a yard a few houses down from his house, the block was empty, so he and his best mate used to always play in the yard, and then the last time he went past there was a detached house on the plot that had obviously been there for way longer than he'd been alive, with people living there who'd lived there for ages, with no way that he could have played on the flat yard, if there was a house already built.  He said he was going to talk to his friend.  I don't recall the outcome of that.

Is it all a dream?  Are our dreams actually reality?  If we dream the same dream often enough, and remember it, at what point does it start to become a memory that we believe to have happened rather than remembering that it was 'only' a dream?

[UltraBudgie]

Hey if anyone watches Black Mirror, episode 2 of the new season that's out has a plot that involves "false memories" like the Mandela Effect. The episode is called "Bête Noire".

[UltraBudgie]

The New York Times has this video animation of The Thinker at the top of an op-ed about deleting the past:

Since the pose of The Thinker is a common point of disagreement it made me think of this thread. Has the statue always been how you remember it?

Also hey look you can embed MP4 videos just by pasting the link.

[Nerb]

Any Brits mis-remember Captain Pugwash?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Captain_Pugwash

Ooh Aarrr Me Hearty!

[UltraBudgie]

Apparently this is now Obama's official portrait in the White house, not that green thing with all the leaves:



https://www.nydailynews.com/2022/09/07/w...portraits/