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/fuckityfucky 10d ago

Taken over by gorilla skeptics and bots a few years ago. Used to be a good subreddit. RIP

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u/Curithir2 10d ago

Guerrilla skeptics, I like it!

There's a couple effects that get me, many that don't. A college psych Prof turned me on to semiotics, the meaning of meaning. Why those two neurons mean blue, how slippery language can be.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day . . .

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u/RegularLibrarian1984 7d ago edited 7d ago

I studied arts and philosophy and textile history, i heard about the Czech play costumes in textile history in movie history and philosophy, it invented the word robot 🤖 which originally meant slave, the language was the example of an artificially created language from Latin to keep knowledge hidden. The play inspired the Movie Metropolis seen on Arte a documentary years ago saying the same thing that the language was invented to keep secrets, the costumes from the play and the movie metropolis. I stated these things over and over, in this reality the language czech evolved naturally but all the other elements stayed the same. We definitely aren't in Kansas anymore... I think we switch probably more often than we realised... As things keep changing we can't have notes or evidence so it's just our consciousness. Basically the rarer knowledge of things is probably lost completely as people didn't know them before, that's why movies and Logos are more easily recognised known to change. But there's probably mountains of things we are unaware that changed.

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u/Curithir2 7d ago edited 5d ago

Exactly. I'm a theatre scene designer by trade, I think we catch one in ten odd occurences, impossibilities, "the time is out of joint". And half the time, shrug it off or dismiss it . . .