How The Mandela Effect Has Been Brainwashing Everyone

Memory! By many accounts, memory is what makes us, us. Our sense of self, according to many philosophers and scientists, is informed by what we remember, and don’t remember.

But what does it mean if everyone around us misremembers the exact same thing?

Sources:

[Origins of the Mandela Effect]

[Memory Sins]

[Possible Explanations]

[Other Sources]

[karan.kk.h]

Imagine being remembered as someone half the world thought dIED when you’re in fact still alive

[Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

Who's this Mandela guy, and why is he always trying to effect stuff

[EpicWinNoob]

"How about this one, what color is Chartreuse, green or pink one?"
I've never heard or seen this word in my entire life.

[DonBlueberry]

I actually dont believe in most of the mandelas. But the berenstain bears one really gets me. Those books single handedly taught me how to read. And I remember being actively confused about how their names were pronounced. I definitely remember it being Berenstein bears due to it being such an impactful change in my life.

[zarthy]

Brew: Which color is Chartreuse?

Me: I have no idea. I have never heard of this. Please use words normal people understand.

[raptorexo]

"Mirror Mirror on the Wall" is actually correct. It's the original German Tale.
Magic Mirror on the Wall is the Disney Version.

[collinsellers]

I've never met anyone who didnt know there were 50 states in usa
Edit: I've never met an American that didn't know there 50 states. The rest of you, I understand. I dont know how many states or provinces there are in any other country.

[becac]

You know what scares me about the Mandela effect is I can remember my mother telling me when I was in elementary school when I asked who Nelson Mandela was that he died in prison in the 80's. When I asked her about when she told me this recently, she said "I never said that!, You are making that up, I've never heard that one before" I have no idea how this happened

[ryanhegseth]

Wrong memories don’t surprise me... it’s when millions of us have the same wrong memories.

[inversefireman]

Brew: "Iv'e always worn this hat."

The Profile Picture:

[abbyvibes]

When Chill censored his oWn swear word-

*we must protecc the chill bean*

[HappilyAnonymousGirl]

Growing up, me and my brother shared a room for most of our childhood, and for many years there was an owl portrait made of fabric on one of the walls.

It’s like a wooly blanket inside a picture frame.

Anyway, the owl was very colorful and the background was black and I would stare at it a lot, because I loved it.

As time went on, the room got painted and the owl portrait wound up in a storage shed in our backyard. Where it stayed for several years, until recently…

Throughout the years, I thought about this thing and always wanted to see it again, but the shed was so full of stuff it was impossible to get to it.

Apparently, most of the stuff inside was trash from when my parents were struggling to pay the trash bill when we were kids…

Just a month ago, my brother told me he had a dream that the shed was empty and clean, and it inspired him to take the time to clean it out.

Before everything was put onto a trailer, it was all put in trash bags and placed outside the shed. Or put into a pile if it was too big for a trash bag.

On one of the cleaning days, I went up to my brother and asked him if he’d found that owl portrait that I mentioned earlier. He told me he did and brought me to where it was.

He pulled some stuff off of it and I finally got to see it again after so many years, but when I saw it I wasn’t as excited as I thought I would be..

When I saw it, I was immediately thrown off by the colors…

I remembered the owl being very colorful. It had every color of the rainbow in it, mainly being blue and yellow, with a black background.

However.. what I saw was an owl with only 3 colors and a white background….

The most jarring thing to see was the white background… which still doesn’t make sense to me.

I have it in my room now so it doesn’t get lost again, and every time I look at it I have such a weird feeling.

Like it’s still missing…

I can’t get over the colors of it, and especially the background being white…

I feel almost like I remembered this thing specifically over the years for a reason, but I have no clue. I just always remembered the colors and always imagined that when I’d see it again, I’d get to see the rainbow owl on a black background.

Every time I see it I feel disappointed, and also a bit sad… Sad that I’ll never get to see the one I grew up staring at and admiring, even though it used to fall on me when I was asleep sometimes LOL

What’s the worst is that sometimes when I look at it, I still expect to see the different colors, and it’s almost like I can see them for a split second before they’re gone..

[rowinfun]

When I was a kid I use to chose those books to do reports on. I always got marked on my spelling of the name because I spelled it Berenstien. My teacher got frustrated because all I had to do was copy it from the book, but she noticed that it was the ie-ei problem. She started working with me on that and she never once said it was Berenstain. With her help I learned how to use the ei-ie the right way. Now I find out that it was more wrong than that!

[notyourbusiness]

2:30 to be fair, the German and original version says “mirror mirror, on the wall”, so that one isn’t entirely false

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Our sense of self is virtually what we remember and don’t remember.


The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon that may seem like a small issue, but it may actually escalate into bigger issues if our minds fill in the memory gap negatively.

[AnnisAdventures]

With the “Luke, I am your father” thing, I only ever watched the actual movie once. I just remember hearing everyone else say that’s what it was and I had no reason to believe it was false. So I didn’t specifically remember it, but I assumed it to be true.

[dannigro]

Remember when you remember something. You aren’t remembering the original memory you’re just remembering the last time you remembered it.

[weebthatlifts]

How can people forget we have 50 states
It’s 50
Half of 100
An even number
One of the easiest numbers to remember

[akabusboy]

I actually remember as a child that the librarian corrected me when I said stain and they told me it was pronounced stein

[LukeF]

The “Luke I am your father” one ruined my childhood bc people would always say it to me growing up and I’d always correct them and argue with them. I literally have seen the movie and that scene a good 200+ times and I have endured so much pain sharing the truth my whole life