Alternative Explanations for 'The Mandela Effect'

[JohnEmmett]

Possible explanations:

skeptics will accept any of those alternatives without hesitation

 

[Freodin]

skeptics will accept any of those alternatives without hesitation

Skeptics will accept a mystical relation between a book and a person, resulting in a book teleporting back when given away, without hesitation?

Something tells me you haven't even read the whole post.

Again, different possibilities, this time relating to Hanlon's Razor: you are either unwilling or incapable of having a serious conversation. I don't know what I would think is worse.

But I'm done here. There is no talking with you. Bye.

 

[JohnEmmett]

But I'm done here. There is no talking with you. Bye.

Good

 

[JohnEmmett]

I think I'm in a different dimension

I drive this same road to work every day …

 

[Freodin]

There was a long series of books that I owned. I like to re-read books once and again, and I started this series over. At one point, I noticed that I was missing one book.
I knew that I owned it. I knew that I had read it before. I was still aware of the general flow of the story. But I couldn't find it. It wasn't with the rest of the series.
So I went through all my books... and I have a lot of books. I went through all the bookshelfs in all the rooms of my house. I went through all the places where books might be stored. It was nowhere to be found.
I hadn't been giving it away or lent it to anyone or even thrown it away. It just wasn't there.

So I bought it again. Online, as an e-book version. I have no e-reader, so I had to read it on my desktop computer. A bit awkward... but for a good story, you'll take a bit of discomfort. It was a good story.

When I had just finished the last chapter, I looked down, right next to my desk. There was my printed exemplar to that story.

Fun fact for those who might be interested: the story is "embellished".

It's true, up to the final paragraph.
I did miss the book. I did look through all my books. I bought it again as an e-book. I did read it on my desktop computer, not having an e-reader.

But then... I just happened to find the printed exemplar innocently sitting on a bookshelf somewhere in the house. I had missed it in my search. Because it was the only book in the series that I owed as a hardcover edition instead of a paperback. I hadn't looked closesly enough. I had been going into my search with the wrong expectation, with a "false memory" of what the book should look like.

That's the one point. These things happen.

There's more.
Which is "stranger"... that I wasn't meticulous enough in a search, and looked for the wrong object, and that I just ran across it randomly at some later point... or that the object I had been so frantically looking for turned up exactly at the moment it was no longer needed, in a place that should have been obvious just seconds earlier?

That's the second point. All sorts of things happen. That is not dependent on how "strange" they appear to us. It's just a way of how we humans interprete reality. We like it to tell "stories". We are Pan narrans.

 

[JohnEmmett]

It's just a way of how we humans interpret reality.

You only understand the mundane

 

[keith99]

...
Which is "stranger"... that I wasn't meticulous enough in a search, and looked for the wrong object, and that I just ran across it randomly at some later point... or that the object I had been so frantically looking for turned up exactly at the moment it was no longer needed, in a place that should have been obvious just seconds earlier?

That's the second point. All sorts of things happen. That is not dependent on how "strange" they appear to us. It's just a way of how we humans interprete reality. We like it to tell "stories". We are Pan narrans.

N ot exactly about being stranger, but some people will only accept answers that say they were not wrong or mistaken. For them teh right answer is the one that says they did not mess up.

In my experience those most apt to make mistakes are also teh most apt to be that way, while those least prone to error are most willing to admit it when they are wrong.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Saying it is false memory is gaslighting … Saying memory sucks is gaslighting …

 

[keith99]

Let me give 3 very famous lines from films that flat out are not there.

Starwars: Luke, I am your father
Dirty: Do you feel lucky, punk.
Casablanca: Play it again, Sam.

If you bother to look up or better still already know the closest line from the respective films you just might figure out what they have in common and by that figure out the explaination to a pretty large subset of things often called The Mandela Effect.

 

[JohnEmmett]

you just might figure out what they have in common …

This effect is mostly spelling changes


And not only famous…


I have personal examples of 4 changes

 

[keith99]

This effect is mostly spelling changes


And not only famous…


I have personal examples of 4 changes

Wrong. Unless you think No is a mispelling of Luke or I is a misspelling of You.

And there actually is nothing even all that close to Play it again, Sam in Casablanka.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Wrong. Unless you think No is a misspelling of Luke or I is a misspelling of You.

close enough

 

[JohnEmmett]

People around the world are seeing the Moon during the day

 

[JohnEmmett]

“The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself.”

― James Baldwin

 

[Bungle_Bear]

People around the world are seeing the Moon during the day

And? I can't wait for you to tell us that in one of your previous realities the moon was actually lime green and only ever came out between midnight and 3am.

 

[ozso]

People around the world are seeing the Moon during the day

That's a funny one. I can't think of a time in my life when I haven't seen the moon during the daytime, from time to time. The only time it's ever been a special event to me, is when the sun is setting as the moon is rising or vice versa, and the moon is really big looking and glowing. I think maybe that particular effect only happens when it's a full moon or close to it.

 

[ozso]

One thing I've learned is that memories are not entirely reliable. Especially childhood memories.

Fairly recently my adult niece related a vivid memory of when her grandmother's dog, who had been placed in her father's care, had been put to sleep when she was little. And I having been there with her dad when an animal control person picked up the dog, know that she was across town at her mom's house (divorced parents) when this took place. Obviously she was told what happened by her dad, and memory wise she put herself there as it occurred.

 

[pgp_protector]

One thing I've learned is that memories are not entirely reliable. Especially childhood memories.

Fairly recently my adult niece related a vivid memory of when her grandmother's dog, who had been placed in her father's care, had been put to sleep when she was little. And I having been there with her dad when an animal control person picked up the dog, know that she was across town at her mom's house (divorced parents) when this took place. Obviously she was told what happened by her dad, and memory wise she put herself there as it occurred.

Yep, I agree 100%.
My Wife currently is living with Dementia from Alzheimer's, and every day I live with the effects of unreliable memory, delusions, and all the fun that comes with this ailment.

 

[JohnEmmett]

every day I live with the effects of unreliable memory … Alzheimer's

That’s not unreliable memory, it’s an illness

 

[JohnEmmett]

And? I can't wait for you to tell us that in one of your previous realities the moon was actually lime green …

It wasn’t out during the day