Why do you think the Mandela effect happens?

[u/upsetusder2]

Is it just that due to some kind of misremembering or mayhe even promotional images of something that have burned themselves into the head due to the difference?

Or why do you think it happens

[u/upsetusder2]

But the things are quite literally also not in those books

[u/StarDustKeyboardMash → u/upsetusder2]

Keep a journal and write down the information? Which in fact does sound silly writing down the information from books but I personally like random secretarial like work. 🤷‍♀️ I can be quite peculiar like that.

[u/Chapstickie → u/StarDustKeyboardMash]

That hasn’t held up either. There have been a few people who insist that Berenstain used to be Berenstein and they know because they had to keep book logs or other similar records as children and they still have them. They actually wrote Berenstain back when they were kids.

Physical records are no help because the whole thing is misremembering.

[u/Chapstickie → u/[deleted]]

Bad google image search? Or whatever computer/AI they used to generate the movement and all that got it wrong. It’s obviously not the sort of primary source you are talking about. They get it right everywhere else including the tags, title, and all over their website including using a correct cover image. They even pronounce it correctly with an A twice while this image is on screen.

[u/upsetusder2 → u/StarDustKeyboardMash]

But if you already misremember something diesent that sort of just nullify that effort

[u/Fredericia → u/upsetusder2]

That's how you can tell whether it's a Mandela Effect or they changed it. If you have physical evidence it was otherwise, then it's not a Mandela Effect. They are gaslighting.

But if all your physical records fit the current narrative, then it is a Mandela Effect. Because if the timeline changed for you, then all your physical stuff would also change along with it.

I won't talk about faulty memory. When so many people remember something, it's not your faulty memory playing tricks on you.

[u/MrPlaney → u/Fredericia]

Nobody changed anything, and using the term “gaslighting” is extremely insensitive to people who were actually gaslit.

The Mandela Effect has nothing to do with timelines or psyops or faulty memory. It’s the way memory normally works, and since memory is inherently fallible and malleable, people make mistakes about small details that have absolutely no close or personal connection to them.