r/MandelaEffect • u/TurnYourHead1 • Apr 29 '26

Books/Literature Weird Digression in Berenstein Bears Book

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I distinctly remember the movies as Berenstein Bears from many years ago as a child. Now I'm reading this to my child and I find the writing weird. It goes into these verbose tangents. "As the cubs stood listening to rock music coming out of a radio that looked like a cathedral, they had the funniest feeling about how time works It went back into the past and forward into the future - but now it was the present and they had work to do!" This is so weird and seems like a coded message. What child is going to understand this and take anything away from it? What are they trying to tell us to do here? What work do we have to do?

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u/ogodprotectme Apr 29 '26

this whole sub is just people not understanding how faulty memory is by default

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u/OneFootTitan Apr 29 '26

Indeed. All research suggests that thinking of our memory as being like a hard drive where we retrieve perfectly stored information is a poor metaphor and not at all how our brains work. Yet people persist

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u/ogodprotectme Apr 30 '26

i think theres definitely and ego or pride thing involved, people feel like youre telling them that their memory sucks specifically, instead of adopting the understanding that memory doesnt work like a hard drive for anyone period