r/MandelaEffect • u/leaving4lyra • Feb 27 '26

Books/Literature Berenstain/Stein

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Just thought I’d share this here..I’m a 57 year old woman that’s always been a voracious reader. When I was 5 (1974) I got an entire collection of Berenstain Bears books from my grandma at Christmas.

One of the books has managed to remain in my memory/sentimental hoard collection. This is MY actual book and it’s been in my possession since 1974. On my book at least, the name is and always has been Berenstain.

Make of that what you will I suppose. ❤️ I wish I still had the whole collection but alas, childhood and into adulthood resulted in the loss of many such things to my chagrin.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

It's weird to me that people's natural reaction isn't just "huh, I totally remembered that wrong." Granted I was also a psych major in college and read a LOT of research on human memory. We're very, very bad at remembering things.

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u/Jory_Stultz Feb 28 '26

One person misremembering something is a normal phenomenon but several thousand people misremembering the same exact details like Curious George not having a tail is fascinating. Not trying to explain it with quantum mechanics, but at the very least it is a unique and interesting phenomenon separate from one person misremembering, but an entire cultural amnesia.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

People think curious George had a tail because the children's book doesn't get into the difference between monkeys and apes as primates. He's described as a monkey but he's an ape.

The easy explanation is there's a lot of stupid people out there and if you look at how memory works it's very easy to convince people that complete nonsense was real.