Personal Mandela Effect

[u/D_Ques]

I tried posting this on the Mandela Effect sub and it didn't go well. Someone wanted to argue. I'm certainly not gonna type it out again. But I did take a couple screenshots. 🪑🫈🪑

[u/CharacterHorror1212]

I actually get what you mean here. People act like every Mandela Effect has to be some globally shared memory, but personal ones are way creepier because you KNOW what you said or remembered in that moment.

[u/D_Ques → u/CharacterHorror1212]

I have another. I had two candles in my room. One was gray and the other was a light yellow...I had them on my bedside table. I lit them both one night. I looked over at them and they were both gray.

[u/No_Gur_6462 → u/D_Ques]

I think I know what you’re talking about.

But whether it’s a true phenomenon or a perceptual experience, I don’t think most people are going to be able or willing to entertain it.

It’s just too far out of the bound of consensus reality for most people who have bought in. Which is most people.

[u/No_Gur_6462 → u/No_Gur_6462]

Oh, and also, they’re gonna get stuck on your use of the term “mandela effect” because you’re kind of butchering its literal definition, which will be really hard for people to see past.

[u/D_Ques → u/No_Gur_6462]

Yeah, they probably will. I just don't know what else to call it.

[u/No_Gur_6462 → u/D_Ques]

Ive seen it described as a “glitch in the matrix” and there’s actually a subteddit for discussing it r/glitchinthematrix

I personally think of it either as “jumping” to another nearby universe and/or the universe and cause and effect being more malleable than we like to give it credit for. Honestly when you notice it, all you can really do is shrug.

That or its your mind writing a memory wrong and/or your mind taking shortcuts and just seeing something wrong before suddenly updating the model when you pay closer attention.

Whatever it is, it’s kind of impossible to prove one way or the other to yourself much less to someone else.

[u/Fyrus93 → u/D_Ques]

Did they both remain gray or were they just gray while they were lit and you were looking at them? You gave us barely any information

[u/D_Ques → u/Fyrus93]

What more do you want? The light yellow candle turned gray and stayed that way. That's all.

[u/Fyrus93 → u/D_Ques]

That's not a Mandela effect. That's you forgetting what colour your candle was

[u/Xena_Your_God → u/D_Ques]

I chalk these moments up to some sort of slipping through a slight rift between dimensions.