The Mandela Effect

[Maxmars]

The Mandela Effect : fact or fiction?


The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where various groups of individuals seemingly recall past events, symbols, words, and titles et cetera as documented or transpiring differently than how they are actually recorded in the present day. The title comes from the 'supposed' false memory of many believing that Nelson Mandela died in prison during the 1980s where in fact this is actually contrary to how this information is actually documented in the present day. Nelson Mandela never died in prison, or so 'they' say.

Examples of this phenomenon resonate differently with different individuals, and oddly enough the titled phenomenon is actually an example of one that does not resonate with me as much as some of the others.

And here are a few examples of this phenomenon that actually do resonate with me:

1. Interview With - THE - Vampire. I saw this movie more than once, and I recall the title as being Interview With - A - Vampire.

2. Moonraker. Dolly NEVER had braces in any of the scenes, but I seem to recall a scene with her smiling at Jaws with her 'braces' twinkling in the light.

3. The word dilemma. Many, including myself seem to recall this as being spelled dilemna, and I have no idea why many would have recollection of such an oddly spelled word.

4. Mr. Rogers' theme: it's a wonderful day in THIS neighborhood. I grew up with this and I recall it as it's a wonderful day in THE neighborhood.

These are just a few and the examples are many, and it's kind of reminiscent of other phenomena such as ghosts, UFO sightings, or any other widely documented paranormal phenomena where there may in fact exist truth but often times mixed together with a plethora of lies, mistaken identity, or any other inadvertent or intentional false reports or claims, but it's like they say, it only takes one truth to prove any phenomenon.

It can also be worthy to note that with this Mandela Effect that many of the changes seem to not make nearly as much sense as the recollected original and in some instances maybe even to the point of borderline laughable.

I'll start by addressing your list...

1. I too feel an organic recollection of "Interview with "a" vampire.  The internet however, refutes this EVERYWHERE.  Makes me wonder... 

2. It was a specific recollection of mine... even to commenting at the time that I felt it 'silly' to have been directed that way... I wonder if all that is fabricated memory?

3. I never saw "dilemma" spelled differently, that I can recall.  I would have thought it a typo.

4. It was always firmly ensconced in my mind as "... beautiful day in THE neighborhood.  That memory is entrenched... and almost impossible to imagine as "wrong."

I understand the term "Mandela Effect" was coined due to the associated example of many people identifying with thinking one thing was so, and later discovering it was never so, specifically as in so many recalling multiple instances of his reported death.  

But the commonality I find most compelling is that these are about "reported" and "discussed reporting."   Information that flows between people is the commonality where I think we might find an answer about how this happens....  If you think about it, if it happened with something you personally witness, it could be called hallucinating... or being gaslighted (pardon the paranoid angle.)