r/Retconned • u/rajalove09 • 10d ago

Mandela Effect

What’s the point of that sub? It’s like no one there believes in it. No one ever gets to talk about Mandela Effects.

I will die on the hill that it was BerenSTEIN Bears. I could read very young, and while my mom was grocery shopping, I’d read from the book stand. It was the 80s in a small town, in a small store, so I was ok being alone while my mom shopped. I remember wondering how to pronounce it. Why do I have that memory if it never was spelled that way?!

That’s my biggest one I just can’t get over. I also remember riding in the car with my mom and asking what does “objects in mirror MAY BE closer than they appear” meant.

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u/PlayfulBook5571 9d ago

Objects mirror may be closer than they appear. Had me 99% the girl on Moonraker not having braces. I’m 1000% in a simulation or a different reality, I mean come on that one doesn’t even make sense.

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u/QCPhotoPro 9d ago

I hadn’t noticed the mirror one yet. WOW! As a lifelong car buff, I’m flabbergasted right now. 🫠

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u/rajalove09 9d ago

It was worded so weird. I have that distinct memory of being in the passenger side while my mom was driving, and asking her what it meant.

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u/PlayfulBook5571 8d ago

I have the vivid memory of sitting in front of my house and my father's is either a blue Dodge or Ford I think it was the Ford but anyways I remember moving my hand and when my hand was in the middle it would be like bigger and closer looking but as my hand went to the outside it would look smaller it would have that distortion to it right so with those convex mirrors the location of whatever you're looking at right if it's like closer to the inside of the truck closer to the outside truck over the line with the middle of that mirror will actually make it look like a different size all at the same distance hence it says May be closer than appear because if it's on the outside it's going to look like a smaller image that you're used to when an image of that size on the middle of the mirror would be a little further away bro my dad even explained it to me at the time it was insane that we don't have that like I'm just I don't know at a complete loss. And I would have boycotted it GoldenEye for N64 had that girl not had braces on Moonraker

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u/therankin 9d ago

I don't know if I asked my parents, but I read it over so many times that I even had a working theory as to why it was worded like that!

No other Mandela effect has me at 100%, but this one absolutely does. There is zero chance that I'm misremembering hundreds of car rides.

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u/PlayfulBook5571 10h ago

What was your theory for the wording

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u/therankin 9h ago

Oh. I always pictured "may be" to mean when you're in the drivers seat and farther from the mirror, objects tend to look very far away. But when you're in the passengers seat and use that mirror, things don't look as far away.

Basically, depending on where you're sitting, objects 'may be' closer than they appear.

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u/PlayfulBook5571 9h ago

See I always thought it was due to the fact that on those convex mirrors if you're reflection is in the highest part of the bulge it looks bigger than as you move let's say your hand to the outer edges the image of your hand gets smaller thus May be closer or further bigger or larger than they appear "objects in mirror may be closer than they appear" but what you're saying makes perfect sense and honestly thinking about it would be the same exact type of affect depending on your position/Angle 

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u/therankin 7h ago

Yea, and that's why I know it was a thing. I had this whole story and explanation plotted out ever since I was a kid.

So either Mandela Effect is real, or there just aren't any good pictures of passenger side side view mirrors from the early 90s, lol.

There are plenty of old pictures of cars, but who would have thought to take a picture of a mirror while sitting in the car?