Submitted by Fenris Myrrdin on
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I believe the Mandela Effect theory is real, but that most of what people think is that, is not. Because the theory assumes that our awareness, attention, memory and knowledge are perfect. Yet we know there are such things as misconceptions, and it would be foolish to blame reality for all our misconceptions.
So it’s a question of how certain you are of your memory, and how qualified you are regarding that certainty.
For example, someone who sort of glanced at a map as a kid and remembered something being in the general vicinity of another place but didn’t pay much attention — that’s different from a map maker who carefully drew lines and borders and remembers calculating the distance between two points and arriving at a number that, upon checking now, completely doesn’t hold.
Or, if one glances at a news article about some really old actor being in the hospital gravely ill, and three years later finds out they’re still alive, well do they remember correctly the article or did they assume at the time that old + ill = near death and that evolved into “dying” and hence “died” and now they’re puzzled why the guy is still alive. The situation is different if they remember the funeral and casket footage of the actor dying years ago.
But, I do believe there are legitimate timeline glitch effects. I’m just saying that we also have crappy memories and even remember our imaginations as real events sometimes. Like sometimes people can’t remember correctly if something happened to them personally or whether they saw it in a movie, experienced it in a dream, read about it in a book, or were vividly visualizing an anecdote someone was telling them.
So once you can eliminate all those other possibilities, then you likely have a real Mandela Effect experience. The real cases would be due to quantum physics, which indicates that reality is more of a suggestion than an objective independent thing, malleable to consciousness; the past being selectable from the present, with timelines merging and interweaving in ways that reveal their differences sometimes.
But in real life that manifests more on a personal level via synchronicities, objects going missing or showing up in places in unexplainable ways, deja vu’s, talking with someone in public and later they say they never met you that day and have an alibi that proves it, and Fortean phenomena.
Something big like entire continents moving or flipping up side down on a map, I think chances are high that’s more a case of misremembering than reality changing. So we just have to separate mental misconceptions from genuine reality glitches, and that requires an honest evaluation of our fallibility.
Tom Montalk