The Mandela Effect

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What are the common traits among those who experience the ME? Why some and not others and what can we learn about the ME based on those who experience it?

It could just be something as simple as certain individuals having clearer memories of specific things to the point where some may have even been moderately obsessed with some particular thing prior to it changing.

On the other hand, recollection to fabrication of false memories is also possible e.g. I could have seen an ME video more than a decade ago by a user reproducing a Moonraker segment featuring Dolly and adding/editing in her "braces"(or some sort of twinkling effect to indicate them) the way they believe they remember it, and then some time later it becomes a memory of unknown origin and is inadvertently mistaken for the original. Although contrary to this and as previously stated it actually makes more sense that she had braces since that was a supposed catalyst in forming a common bond between the two at the outset of their relationship where Jaws also had a 'metal mouth'.

And just because the above seems to make for a better script doesn't necessarily mean that the original script writers thought of it or opted out for whatever reason.

I'm not so sure though that false or fabricated memories can invalidate the entire ME phenomenon, and some are pointing their fingers at CERN and the LHC which does seem like a bit of a stretch.

For me personally with some of these supposed ME's it does have a sort of feel to it that someone or some thing is deliberately messing with us by creating these changes that occasionally seem kind of silly in comparison with the originals.

Other ideas include alternate/parallel universes/timelines and a migrating to or merging of these.