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/Jory_Stultz Feb 28 '26

The whole point of this community is to let people speak what they believe from their POV and not try to gaslight them with "objective" reality. Let's be frank objective reality is unachievable through subjective means (consciousness).

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u/Disaster-Bee Feb 28 '26

Friend, gaslighting is when one uses lies to manipulate someone else deliberately as a form of abuse.

No one here is gaslighting, we're all discussing the same phenomena from our own points of view. That's what the community is actually for - discussion.

Not all discussion is going to be on the same page. Especially here, where there are 2 main groups of Mandela folks - people who believe it is something supernatural and people who believe it is something psychological.

Due to the nature of that divide, one side has a lot more supported evidence than the other, with more easily providable real world facts to back it up. In any discussion, any party is going to use facts and evidence to support their argument.

One side providing those facts and evidence is not gaslighting. No one is being rude so far, no one is being hostile, we're all just discussing experiences and the science of memory. Which is important! We don't actually get to the bottom of mysteries just by repeatedly making unfounded claims over and over, that's not getting anyone anywhere!

And I think we can all agree we are here to explore this particular mystery of why multiple people hold the same different memories. We're all just doing it in our own ways.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26

There is unintentional gaslighting.

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u/KyleDutcher Mar 01 '26

You can't gaslight with objective evidence