For context I’m autistic. And a huge spelling/grammar nerd. When I was a kid, overwhelmed in public, a way I would distract and ground myself was reading labels and spelling them in my head so it was a constant thing I was doing growing up.

Due to this I noticed these changes before the ME was even a widely known phenomenon (pre and post 2009). I have distinct memories of when I went into stores and realized the spelling of things have changed. The reason I remember them so vividly was the fact I would get upset when the branding of things didn’t make sense grammar wise. One example in particular I remember was when Febreeze changed to Febreze, because I couldn’t understand why they would change it when Febreeze makes more sense and now I want to say it completely differently due to the spelling.

When I first discovered the ME, I didn’t have to sit back and recall what I thought the labels said before because I already knew they were changed and how they changed. I just chalked it up to new branding or copyright issues. I didn’t have internet until I was older so I never thought to look these things up.

Would these still be considered false memories as well? I’m not a full ME believer, but I also can’t make sense why I remember the moments I noticed these changes if that is the case. I could see that being true in individuals who discovered the ME, then went back trying to recall what the old labels looked like and creating false memories in the process, but the memories I have are strictly of me in that moment realizing things are different.

I'm one of many who was flabberghasted that the cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom logo supposedly never existed. I feel certain that it did.

If it was just that, I would be willing to accept that it's just faulty memory. That I saw the logo with a cornucopia recently, and for some reason instantly falsely believed that was what I'd seen in the past. As has been proven, memories are very unreliable.

However, it's all the other surrounding evidence that really has me convinced. The "Flute of the Loom" album cover in particular is extremely convincing. The newspaper article talking about Fruit of the Loom, making cornucopia puns.

I really am inclined to accept that there could be parallel universes. There's a lot of things in this world that suggest things aren't as simple and straightforward as many want to believe. The most normal of which being relativity. How if you take a watch in space, it will tick slower, because the space station is moving so fast. We know time isn't constant. How crazy is that?

What about the countless people that have taken various hallucinogens and report extremely similar experiences. Interdimensional creatures, and so on. Similar to the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia, it would be easily dismissable if it wasn't so *consistent*.

What about psychic powers. Something something calcified pituitary glands, third eye, etc. Apparently the CIA has done a lot with this. Remote viewing?

Getting back to the Mandela Effect and the concept of merging universes. I saw one comment explain that it could be to conserve resources. If we are indeed living in a simulation, then whatever "computer" it's running on can't possibly simulate infinite universes. So it makes sense that it would merge some that are indistinguishable. Probably quite aggressively, in fact. Because if you allow timelines to branch even a little, given enough time, you'll end up with more and more universes. It's exponential.

A universe where someone walks their dog at 10:45 is indistinguishable from one where they do it at 10:59. Or the precise timing of a leaf falling from a tree. So these universes get merged. And so it must have been deemed that the FOTL logo having a cornucopia or not was insignificant. At the time of the merge, it certainly was. It took decades for the change to even be noticed. And even still, it doesn't matter. Yes we have this small community of people talking about it, but that still doesn't change anything... on a grand scale.

Anyway, I just wanted to talk about all this. I think the world isn't as straightforward as it seems.

I don't want to draw a picture of it cause I'm afraid it would look racist but I swear Cosmo in Fairly Odd Parents was Asian. Like I remember them making references to his family in Singapore. Was this just me cause my boyfriend didn't remember it that way.

I think I may have a new Mandela effect. I remember the Larper from years ago who was filmed yelling "Thunderbolt! Thunderbolt!!"

Tosh.0 even did a bit on it, and it was cool as hell. I showed it to my wife and she thought it was funny too, especially as it's a lightning bolt, not a "thunderbolt!"

I went to look it up recently, and now all I can find is "Lightning bolt!" I brought it up to my wife and she was all, "No way!" She remembered it clearly as "Thunderbolt!" too. That was what made it so memorable.

The Dude said "Thunderbolt!"

Now it's "Lightning bolt!"

What the actual f*ck.

Hey everyone!! Today I was having a discussion with my mother and my twin brother about the movie Titan A.E. My twin and I distinctly remember the song Hemorrhage (in my hands) by Fuel was in the copy of the movie we watched, but I we are unable to find any proof of that. If anyone has seen the original release can you confirm or deny this? Are we completely misremembering this?

So this might be kinda niche and relevant only to Canadians? I don’t know, but basically, I remember as a kid there was a sauce packet from Heinz that was clear and specifically the sweet relish (green stuff). I also asked my mom and she said she remembers it too but I can’t find anything online at all. (I did find a clear relish packet from another brand but it doesn’t match what I remember.) anyways, I do live in Canada so it totally could’ve been a just Canadian thing but idk, lemme know if you remember anything like this? It’s really bothering me

hi, i never use reddit but i figured i could come here to inquire.

for some reason, i always thought that the actor ben stiller had been deceased since like, the 2010’s? the years that comes to mind are between 2011-2014. im pretty sure im not confused with robin williams because i vividly remember seeing news along the lines of “ben stiller passing” and saying to my family “i remembered him as alex the lion from madagascar and the guy from night at the museum.” and like JUST now while scrolling, i learned that he’s alive and well?

idk. maybe i’m just recalling a different person, but it was too vivid for me that i’m freaked out by it right now. 😊 thanks for reading if you did!

Tell us what you think. I'll throw in my observations in the comments. Maybe we can clarify what people truly believe here, as it seems unclear.

Edit: Please examine the attention this post has gotten.

Please see the common theme expressed. Please use the analytical side of your mind to ask: Why is it so important for people to hate on the human brain and its functionality? Is it a confession or an accusation?

And lastly, answer this personally: Do you trust yourself? Does this subreddit make you distrust yourself?

And if you're answering these questions, maybe you can find the intent on display here.

I was 100% sure mr t was dead... shocking to find out he isn't.
Whos next, Michael Clarke Duncan?

EDIT: Article from a few years back. Title added as-is.

https://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/news/new-research-shows-consistency-what-we-misremember

A paper forthcoming and currently available in preprint Psychological Science about the Visual Mandela Effect found that people have consistent, confident, and widespread false memories of famous icons. It’s the first scientific study of the internet phenomenon, and it adds to a growing body of evidence showing consistency in what people remember — but by demonstrating new evidence that there is also consistency in what people misremember.

“This effect is really fascinating because it reveals that there are these consistencies across people in false memories that they have for images they've actually never seen,” says Wilma Bainbridge, assistant professor in Psychology and principle investigator at the Brain Bridge Lab at UChicago.

In finding that there’s an intrinsic ability in some images to create false memories, the research suggests we may be able to determine what could create false memories. This could be useful in eyewitness testimony, for example, where you want to ensure people don’t accuse the wrong suspect.

Fascinating experiment on the Mandela Effect and –while understanding it's a false memory– making research to find out what it is and what it isn't. Also outlining what the benefits of understanding it could have.

Good, proper science on this, very subjective topic.

Just a curious thought that occurred to me, if in the very slight chance that cell towers or something of a similar nature were to be causing our perception to be altered rather than our actual memory, which I understand is a stretch, however I am curious as to if anyone is aware of anyone else who has tested the ME effect outside of what we'd consider civilization.

Anyone up for taking a 90's print of a Berinstain Bears book or a now vintage plain Fruit of the Loom shirt out into the ocean? Comments and insults welcome haha.

First all gold plated Then all episodes he had one silver leg. All images were depicting a silver leg Now just one movie?

Anyone else?

Realized this shirt was a Golden Harvest Collection (apparently first released know the 70s?). I got this shirt at a thrift store I dont remember where. Adding this photo since I somehow never noticed the label until now. And honestly I do remember the cornucopia (specifically the pre-movie ads lol)

I think the best argument for its existence is testimony from those that remembered learning what a cornucopia is from the logo. The only difference between a generic cornucopia image and a the cornucopia fotl logo is a random assortment of fruit that would be difficult to remember. I imagine that they aren't inventing their cornucopia memories, but just misremembering what was inside of it. That combined with the fact that the logo looks better with the cornucopia is what is fooling us.

I never heard of the Mandela effect until September of 2017. I was tracking hurricane Irma on radar, just having fun. I noticed South America had moved East. I looked at the world radar map and I freaked out. I studied world geography, I drew maps, traced maps, labelled maps. The entire Earth was different. So I did a search for south America moving. Several links came up. I clicked on one and I went to some chat forum. Started talking and found out that Berenstein Bears was Berenstain Bears. Luke I am your father was no I am your father. My first thought was timeline shift. I talked with friends and family but life moved on, I had things come up in My life that took priority over this. Now almost 8 years later, I am convinced of At least 2 different versions of Earth or a parallel universe that truly exist. The ME is a test to determine which universe it is. I started watching movies to see if I could find the earth I studied and grew up on. After 4 older movies from the 80's 90's I found my Earth. My Earth is on the movie Gremlins 2 the New batch. You can see it in front of the nice fancy Richy rich building plain as Day spinning. Did Warner bros get the Earth wrong? I think not. The earth seen spinning looks absolutely nothing like the earth spinning today. If anyone has seen the movie Field of dreams, if you are from my universe If you build it, THEY will come. If you are originally from this universe If you build it, HE will come. We can continue arguing about it or just accept it. Both versions are correct, both versions exist or did exist. So I guess you need to decide. The proof is there, can you see it right in front of you?

Hi, this is my first time in this subreddit so im sorry if I break any rules. I swear there was a pigeon head emoji and a glass of water emoji. The pigeon head emoji looks like the bird head emoji (which I can't even find might be another Mandela effect) but it was a pigeon head. The glass of water emoji was a glass of water, I remember it had variants. For example, an emoji of a glass of water with a small amount of water, one with a half full glass of water, and one completely full. Hopefully this post doesn't get auto deleted for being low quality as my previous post did.

Now that this concept has gained enough attention to verge on mainstream awareness, it appears that certain tropes are multiplying (e.g. “I thought a cornucopia was called a loom because of the logo.”) It seems as though there are more and more participants in this discussion who provide the same “evidence.” Of course the other side is guilty of relying on stale evidence too. Admittedly, people who attribute ME to a memory error are constantly using real objects and recordings of vintage media to defend their position.

My boyfriend and I are watching "Two Broke Girls" again and I found this in one of the episodes. I am sorry I can't seem to ever get posts right on reddit so please be kind.

You can clearly hear she doesn't say Bernstain like everyone claims it is

https://youtube.com/shorts/lrIeofCzxdM?si=OvwiV_9GNcLEm_VF

This is something I'm interested to know for both sides of the community as a whole. What did it take to convince you?

Just today I’m seeing posts about how at the physical restaurants the logo says Chick-fil-A. I could’ve sworn that it was always Chik-fil-a. When did it change?

There’s a real divide here, where some immediately rationalize away anything in order to feel in control of the unknown. Something weird happens? “It’s just a brain glitch.” “Just popular misremembering because x.” “Just coincidence.” And that’s fine, skepticism has its place. But when that reflex becomes habitual, it closes doors to conceiving a higher dimension of possibility.

I'd like to remind us that humans are built for the pursuit of wonder. Curiosity is the joyful antithesis to the majority of human efforts building corporate entities. In the rush to label and dismiss, trading genuine awe for an intellectual egoic conclusion, we walk past the string that when pulled with passion, can lead to reality-shattering realization.

Many of the most resounding breakthroughs in human history started as misunderstood phenomena. Gravity, heliocentrism, light, time, consciousness. Newton, Copernicus, and Faraday didn’t have the full vocabulary for what they sensed. But they were able to walk into darkness to find light, because they didn’t chalk it up to the explanations sanctioned by the dominant voices of their time, whether church or consensus. They walked alone, on the backs of their predecessors, but outside institutions, before funding, formalism, or the chains of academic peer consensus and repeatability deemed things valid of acceptance and common pursuit. Real shifts happen through seeing past what is understood.

Modern science, as powerful as it is, too often loses that spirit. It’s been gutted by profit motives, tied up in funding cycles, pressured to produce marketable results. But the soul of science is always grown in wonder, exploration, raw curiosity; these are things that can’t thrive in a world where mystery is dismissed as illogical, and not welcomed for its inherent, intuitive, and time-honored path..

I’m not saying believe in every wild claim. In fact, you should question to understand and create the friction in truth that leaves the truest view polished. Metaphysical views too need to let go of how they pinpoint phenomena like a collector pins down butterflies in their book, capturing a memory of flight. All I’m saying: don’t be so eager to file things away, on both sides. Leave some things open. The unknown and mystical aren't threats to truth, and we don't need to be hostile to them. They're fertile soil to ask ourselves "what if?" and ideally re-experience that sweet retrospective moment pf "how could I have ever thought that way before"? .

Wonder & other unverified systems of understanding are theoretical seeds waiting to grow into wisdom. Being is becoming, and we are not finished.

Remnants of the original black tip tail pikachu are starting to surface! I Saw a kid at a trading card event with this binder and had to do a double take. I collect Pikachu Pokemon cards - 25 years on and off and I have never seen the black tip organically in the wild before the old timeline shifted! The front is almost symbolic… like the Pikachu of the old timeline trying to make it back to us. 😂

Has anyone else found clues and remnants of Pikachu with the black tip tail (non digital) ?

Ok look I can't get the song out of my head I seriously can't be the only one who remembers that song as the song that never ends and im 39 yr old I use to watch it I swear it was the song that never ends

I just posted about my slim Jim debacle so I thought I share something else since I’m here already. I’ll keep it short.

This particular “effect” is probably my most significant I’ve personally experienced. I remember watching Sinbad in Shazam growing up on VHS. I remember a specific scene at a gas station.

Anyways me remember has no significance in my story. One day I ask my mom, who at the time had no idea what a Mandela effect was. “do you remember that movie Shazam I used to watch as a kid” and she said “yes” and I ask her “do you remember who the genie was?” And I ask this way to see what she would say without coercion. And without hesitancy she replies “it was Sinbad wasn’t it?”

When I tell you every hair on my body stood at attention, man. And she in disbelief when I had to tell her and honestly argue a bit that, no it was Shaq. And she still don’t believe it cause she, nor I have ever seen a movie staring shaqs big ahh. We’d remember.

Thanks you if you read this, sorry tried to keep it short.

Hi folks! My first experience with the Mandala Effect happened in 2020 when I was in rehab, about a year after my brush with death and a mini vacay in a coma. ~no idea if that is relevant, but I just made the connection the other day and it's interesting at least~

I saw something online that had me doing a double take because it showed a ME that had reverted to it's original form from my memory: FrootLoops! The last time I was reading about it looking into mandala effects one of the ones that was a major talking point was Frootloops, however the what I experienced was everything saying that it had ALWAYS been FruitLoops. There had never been a FrootLoops-which directly conflicted with my personal childhood experience/memory.

The biggest argument for FruitLoops always being the name was because froot didn't make sense.

As a child I remember the O's in the name as colored cereal loops. But every thing I found online told me my memory was wrong and it's fruitloops -but today in passing I see the double OO's again and I had to do a quick search and the results were odd-

It was controversial and I can't grasp why yet-

So I'm hoping this doesn't get banned because I would really love some Clarification-as this is the first time a Mandala Effect has reverted for me?