Mandela Effect Introduction

The Mandela Effect is a term for where a group of people all mis-remember the same detail, event or physicality. It is named after the instance in which a large group of people all shared the same memory that Nelson Mandela died prior to his actual 2013 death, usually some time in the 1980’s. The effect exploded in popularity on the internet when a peculiar example popped up where a majority of people seemed to have recalled the Berenstain Bears books as being spelled as “Berenstein” or some other variation, differing from the actual spelling as presented by evidence.

The effect is somewhat different from a false memory as it effects large groups of people, seemingly without many connections and without the same emotional factors present. It also seems stronger and harder to escape the feeling that it’s simply a mis-remembering of a detail, which is why people are so adamant with claims of their memories. As such, it’s often been hinted at that the Mandela Effect is closely related to cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance can be mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds beliefs, ideas, or values and is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values. Please note the use of “can be” as there is many purists that don’t accept the broader definition and scope of cognitive dissonance applying to memory versus reality.

Many Mandela Effects are usually trivial details about an oddly specific set of categories. These include things such as the how and when of celebrity deaths, misspellings (usually replaced or removed letters), placement of geographical locations, quotations within media, or alternate imagery.

It is also related to misconceptions in general, although, again is differentiated due to the obscure nature and odd feelings resulting from learning the reality. The solutions, explanations and reasons for the misconceptions are also cryptic and often misrepresented or unknown altogether.

The term it fits most with is “confabulation” which is a disturbance of memory which produces fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about the world, without the explicit or conscious intention to deceive others. People who confabulate in this way produce incorrect memories about the most trivial details (as seen with most Mandela Effects) but range up to more complex fabrications as well. They are generally extremely confident in their recollections and will typically resist any contradictory evidence.

The aim of this site is unique among the current offerings online to attempt to dissect the possible causes and solutions for this perplexing phenomenon with a scientific, rational approach. If you’ve come to read about merging of universes, alternate timelines, and time travel then you are in the wrong place (unless you have evidence of such things!). It is of my opinion that the Mandela Effect is a real thing; however, steeped in the realm of sociology and psychology and not science fiction.

Listing of Mandela Effects explored on the site so far:

More information:

Related psychological and phenomenons (possible explanations/factors):

I dive into each of these on the Common Explanations page.

539 thoughts on “Mandela Effect Introduction”

  1. Here’s an example of a shared memory that everyone of my generation in the late 60s in the Philippines remember happened, but it didn’t. I remember the news of the deaths due to a plane crash of the members of the most popular band at that time — The Cascades — swept Manila like wildfire. Since that time, we never heard of a new song ever recorded by this group. Then in 2014, they had a concert in Manila! Here’s an article that appeared in a Philippine newspaper at that time. http://www.philstar.com/entertainment/271011/cascades-did-they-or-didn%C2%92t-they-die-plane-crash

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  2. Here’s a thought. I have a real interest in meditation, so I’ve done quite a bit of personal research on this subject. The average person thinks of meditation as being a means by which to achieve certain states of mind/consciousness. For example an inner sense of peace and wellbeing. While these states are achievable through the practice of meditation a close look at those who have been involved with the development of meditation i.e. Tibetan monks, Hindi gurus and the like will show that those states are actually a by products of their true goal or purpose. What they’ve really been engaged with for millennium is discovering the true nature of reality. With that in mind I wonder if any of them have noticed this shift, being called the Mandela Effect , in reality. Honestly I’ve had my own experiences with what I now hear is this Mandela Effect which I only heard of yesterday 7/26/16. I’m willing to openly talk about this but not with this format.

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      • Im 11 and i remember in elementary school a couple years ago reading the bearenstein bears but if anyone looks at a book now it says bearenstain. This effect is based on the theory that some one or some people went back in time and changed something that changed the future. Another example: in the movie sleeping beauty everyone remembers “mirror, mirror on the wall” right? Wrong. If you look back and watch the movie now it says “magic mirror on the wall” creepy right? This is one of the few conspiravy theories that i actually 100% believe in.

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        • Both quotes, “Mirror Mirror on the wall” and “Magic Mirror on the wall” are actually correct. In the original Brother’s Grimm tales it was translated as “Mirror, Mirror on the wall”. Disney just took a different take on it. The reason that “Mirror Mirror” is so common is because of how it was translated in the original story.

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          • Hi amanda.
            I know the mandella effect is real…but some are wrong like mirror mirror.
            The original Disney one made in the 30s or 40s has mirror mirror…then in the new ones they changed it to magic mirror!
            In one translation it was …..looking glass looking glass!
            I know it was Berenstein bears when i was younger, i remember having a conversation about the origin of Berenstein bears with my sister and its spelling!
            I also remember 4 people in Kennedys car …not 6.
            Hitler had brown eyes….was often a conversation about that one!…but now all the pictures of him have blue eyes!

    • I found out about this effect last night, (8/19/16). I’ve been meditating for the past three years, funny enough I started a couple of months before Nelson Mandela “died”. I also started noticing small, strange “changes” around the same time, most of which i chalked up to mis-remembering. Anyway I found your post interesting and insightful, seeing how most other people that have had this experience associate it with the “end times” or some sort of doomsday. I wouldn’t mind learning more about idea on the effect. You can reach me at donmarkson@yahoo.com if interested.

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      • I had never heard of the Mandela Effect. My first expierence ( I didn’t know it was my 1st) was when I heard that Mandela had died, and I thought to myself, He has been dead for years, dying in prison, It must be one of his children. I could even picture him being carried through a crowd in a casket with flowers lining the rim of the casket. The huge outcry from him dying in prison, being refused release even when it was clear he was dying, I remember all of this, not just a simple Gee Thought he was dead memory!!Then I see him on TV as I was passing by a store and stopped to see why he was on, thinking maybe it was the anniversary of his death, yet the TV said it was being shown LIVE!!! I could not believe this, how could I be so wrong about such an important event. Still, at least a few years passed until I finally heard of the Mandela Effect. I don’t seem to have any other examples of this that I have noticed. Still to remember such an event that I know in my heart happened,and to hear and see proof of his death in my memory, yet being told it had not occured so many years ago in prison but 3 years ago and seeing video of him. The even stranger part is that I seem to remember him being president (in my reality) yet still imprisoned. The more I think about this I also remember he got very sick in prison. I dont know what to believe my mind is telling me at this point.. This is what I call a Mindfreak… NO, The Twilight Zone!! Ok,it’s just fing REALLY weired!!!

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        • I hate to spoil the Mandela part of the Mandela effect, but I very clearly remember his death in the news three years ago. I also remember the tsunami of news coverage when he was released from prison 25 years ago or so. And then I remember his being elected president of South Africa and serving for several years after his release. In fact, the media followed Mandela very closely ever since the fall of apartheid; even after his death, there was an odd fascination with his unstable and disturbed wife, Winnie.

          I haven’t clicked the links above, but these “false memories” seem to me to be very easily, and prosaically, explained – the human brain tends not to record reality. On a comment above, where the poster discusses engaging in meditation, I read “mediation” at first because I work with law firms and see that word a lot. This is not evidence of a parallel universe or a glitch in the matrix. It is evidence that my brain was trained to see things a certain way.

          Our memories of reality usually bend to comport with our existing world view. When we see a Jewish name, for example, like “Berenstain,” it is quite understandable that we would read the first part of the name and our brains will then fill in the rest with what we already know: Many, many Jewish names end in “stein,” but very few end in “stain.” The explanation that the Berenstains themselves have for this anomalous spelling is very understandable.

          When any major event takes place – particularly in the era before everyone had their own camera in their pockets – eyewitnesses are notorious for having “seen” different versions of what happened. In fact, in court, eyewitness testimony is incredibly unreliable. We see what comports with our very limited version of reality.

          The fact that this happens en masse speaks more to the commonality of our limitations and prejudices as humans than an alternate universe. Alternate universes may, in fact exist, but this banal, and quite common, mental lapse is not proof of it.

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          • I think you’re right, Adam Cunningham. I also think we are experiencing massive changes in how we construct consensual realities, due to the sheer pace of technological development. At some point in the near future, I expect, we’ll understand these incidents as a kind of collective crisis, a series of crises, occurring quite naturally as we shift rapidly into new ways of communicating, recording and retrieving information and experience. We’re not really a very psychologically robust species, we humans, and it doesn’t surprise me that the tech revolution is causing these moments of group psychological crisis.
            We do have some previous experience of group delusions, though, it’s not been uncommon in European cultures for the past few centuries, so we do have some models to work with.
            But this (tech) revolution is so fast, and so…well, unexpected, in many ways. Far outstripping similar patterns of change during, say, the Industrial Revolution.
            It’s all very entertaining, if you can keep your sense of humour. Hours of fun for social scientists, I should imagine.
            Personally, I keep reminding myself that when coping with the human condition, it helps to be comfortable with… paradox.
            🙂
            (great comment, btw. thx for the small but firm voice of reason amidst all the wide-eyed shouting 😉

          • I think you’re right, Adam Cunningham. I also think we are experiencing massive changes in how we construct consensual realities, due to the sheer pace of technological development. At some point in the near future, I expect, we’ll understand these incidents as a kind of collective crisis, a series of crises, occurring quite naturally as we shift rapidly into new ways of communicating, recording and retrieving information and experience. We’re not really a very psychologically robust species, we humans, and it doesn’t surprise me that the tech revolution is causing these moments of group psychological crisis.
            We do have some previous experience of group delusions, though, it’s not been uncommon in European cultures for the past few centuries, so we do have some models to work with.
            But this (tech) revolution is so fast, and so…well, unexpected, in many ways. Far outstripping similar patterns of change during, say, the Industrial Revolution.
            It’s all very entertaining, if you can keep your sense of humour. Hours of fun for social scientists, I should imagine.
            Mind you I have no definitive proof either way. It’s a strange universe and I don’t claim to understand much about it. i’d be wary of anyone who did. And, at least in our neck of the galaxy (which may or may not have changed recently :O ) the human mind is without doubt one of the strangest things about it.
            Personally, I keep reminding myself that when coping with Life, the Universe and Everything — especially the human condition — it helps to be comfortable with… well, paradox.
            🙂
            (great comment, btw. thx for the small but firm voice of reason amidst all the wide-eyed shouting 😉

          • I would also agree with you on this if it weren’t for the fact that I always remembered Berenstain spelled that way… but acouple years ago I was doing a research on my childhood shows and suddenly everything was Berenstein. I was like I don’t remember it being some German sounding name and it confuse me for a few days but then I let it pass because I thought it was false memory…untill on facebook I saw mandela effect and I click on it ONLY to see that it was now Berenstain again..

          • Yes, spot on. How the brain works is exactly the reason for this phenomenon.
            History shaping, time travelling reptilians or parallel universes sound more exciting and sell more books though.

  3. Except their is staggering evidence to say otherwise. So far the best example (and I am no way affiliated with religion) but there has been many KJV changes. There is a whole list of changes on a wiki (yes i I know wiki blah blah blah). But I can confirm with verses (whether you believe or not in catholism). For example, all words that once were forks have been changed to flesh-hooks. The Lord’s Prayer now has debts and debters (which is fine but that is usually found in ASV or NIV and NKJV) but the KJV has always said Tresspassers and Tresspass – as well as the words scrolls have been replaced with books. And Prophets with Presidents. This is only effecting the KJV. Again religious or not the KJV would never have PRESIDENTS substituted for Prophets. Or Male-Nurses with babies sucking. and the list goes on and on. And it’s not recent KJV bibles. just food for thought. If you’d like the verses I have complied every change we’ve come across so far. This has happened to the oldest KJV – the oldest I possess is from 1981. But! I won’t say it’s not a case of misremembering, it very well might be – but I’m sorry the KVJ would never have said anything about Presidents, or substituted presidents for prophets. Nor would the word “printed books” appear in the bible. Again this all KVJ that it only seems to be effecting. Womb had been changed to Matrix, which matrix does mean womb, but I’ve always know for it to be womb.

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    • My Bible (KJV) still reads Womb. I’m not sure who said it read Matrix, but they were wrong..and also, if WE KNEW our bible better, we wouldn’t have to question if it were changed..we would KNOW without a shadow of a doubt.

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    • You are completely full of crap. The truth is that the word President was around in the 1400’s. The text that was used to create the KJV was from this time period. At the time president meant foreman. In fact, you are just another one trying to create doubt and I expect if we peered under the truth of your words you have not read more than 10% of the Kjv bible Max! Why are you attacking it, because this attack is coming from Satan. You want to get people to believe that God’s word can be changed. It cannot. Why do they believe you? Because they have not read or studied the KJV that much. The truth is that the KJV always said the wolf vs lion when it comes to lying with the lamb. Why the Lamb and Lion paintings.. Because Jesus is the Lion of Judah but also the Lamb. The art and history on these two pairings is to show the truth of God’s nature not… the verse you people want to say was changed. Read and study, then read and study some more, and prove that you have memorized all these verses for decades… I bet if we were to peel back the layers of the onion we would find you are not even “born again!” Believers, do not be deceived.. use your gift of discernment! So many of these claims are being made by non-born again believers.. not real born agains!

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    • Wow, they do not let me leave my comment.. claimed it was a duplicate but i’ve never made a comment here.. hmm guess I was right! And the liars about the KJV being changed are preventing the truth of God!

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    • I checked the kjv concordance and the words “president,” flesh-hooks” or “printed books” do not appear in the kjv version of the Bible in any instance. The other examples you gave have always appeared as such. Where it says matrix it’s always said matrix, and where it says womb it’s always been womb. I can’t figure out what nonsense you’re saying about “male nurses with babies sucking.” Please cite this passage.

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    • Some of the things that shocked me about the Bible changes, or the Bible in general I suppose and my memories of it (I was raised in Baptist school) is that Moses now has horns. Ancient pictures depict these horns and I would think I’d remember this because of the association of horns with the devil and whatnot. Another thing is that Moses didn’t bring 2 of each animal, he brought 7 pairs, mail and female of “clean” animals and 2 “unclean”. So what is that 14 clean & 2 unclean? Or 14 clean and 4 unclean? Either way, I was taught 2 of all 1 male 1 female. I don’t ever recall horns on Moses. I don’t remember God saying “let US create man in OUR image, as if he was talking to another God. I don’t remember God having horns in his hands. The latter 2 I may have simply not noticed, the 2 former I was taught much about and read the stories per the Bible several times in grade school. Perhaps I did never notice horns on Moses or 14 of clean animals on an ark. I really don’t know for sure. Anyone else think these things sound odd in some way?

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  4. So I saw a post on The Princess Bride and that it might have changed. Just finished watching it and noticed a few things that did not look right. The most striking change was how silver grey the Grandfather’s hair is now. I remember it being more of a salt and pepper and not sliver grey.

    Low and behold the final scene — The Effect made a mistake as it was making the change! In the final scene he goes from sliver grey back to salt and pepper for a few seconds as the camera changes and when it changes back — he is silver grey again.

    First time I have seen a partial effect in a constructed change!!!!

    Check out the clip on youtube — fast forward to 1.51 and the hair changes to the old reality for a few seconds at 2.19:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UquVCYL4C0Q

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  5. When the “Mandela Effect” becomes a foundational belief of our entire culture, schoolchildren will rejoice — because teaching them anything will become impossible.

    Expect the following, sooner rather then later, in a classroom near you —

    TEACHER: Johnny, what is seven times eight?

    JOHNNY: Sixty-eight.

    TEACHER: No, it’s fifty-six.

    JOHNNY: I distinctly remember learning “sixty-eight” from you three days ago. Therefore, it’s sixty-eight. I know that the multiplication table in our arithmetic books says “56,” but I distinctly remember looking at it last night and seeing “68” at that time. Therefore, the book has changed.

    TEACHER: Do you remember when our class counted out eight rows of seven bottlecaps each, then seven rows of eight bottlecaps, and they came to fifty-six bottlecaps each time?

    JOHNNY: Right now, I remember the number as sixty-eight. Therefore, at the time it happened, even if it really was fifty-six, the universe must have changed around me and if must have been sixty-eight at the time.

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    • Math never changes it can be manipulated in a different fassion to get the answer but math will never change. Dont expect this in a school near you, expect this guy to get mad because I just shut him down. Lol

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    • This comment is complete shit. I don’t think you understand how the Mandela Effect works let alone anything in the world, Kate. Listen, math can’t be changed. It will never change. It is literally IMPOSSIBLE to change math and the way numbers work. Second of all, the Mandela Effect isn’t some kid in Nebraska being like “hey i swore the word ‘book’ was spelled ‘beek'”. The Mandela Effect is thousands of people collectively remembering a certain quote or place differently than how it actually is. That’s what makes it interesting and fun for people to research. I think you should let people enjoy things and take the stick out of your ass.

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    • Good one, Kate! This “effect” is nonsense. I actually just heard about it a few days ago and had to look it up to see what it was about.

      It’s about nothing, as was Seinfeld, come to think of it…or was it Seingold?

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    • I totally agree!…he never had a silver leg in my reality! Now he does…..its so funny its outrageously funny!
      Forest Gump now says ..life WAS like a box of chocolates. He never used the past tense when saying …..lifes like a box of chocolates!
      But now he does…they even have a movie ripping off the scene and they say..lifes like a box of chocolates! Everybody remembers that saying because it was GROUND INTO US!…people would say that at least once a week to someone!
      I got the movie out and sure enough he now says …WAS!
      But not everyone has changed reality “multiverse”…so some may remember different!

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  6. I’m not sure where I stand, but I’ll say this… I remember reading the Bernstein Bears as a kid, and I remember, really REMEMBER staring at the name and wondering if it’s ‘Bernst-EE-n’ or Bernst-EYE-n’. I remember that. It’s really messing with my head why would I be trying those pronunciations if I was looking at an ‘a’. Also, (and possibly related, but I don’t know) quantum computing people are very clear about that technology exploiting parallel universes. You can find keynote discussions about that topic on the net. Here’s a good place to start – http://www.dwavesys.com/quantum-computing

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    • I haven’t done “research” yet on this subject or related matter; I just want to tickle your thoughts with a small yet plausible conspiracy theory.

      what if the government(s) are within the realm now on experimenting on changing, merging, manipulating parallel universes. and if so, what if the changes like berenstein bears, c3p0’s leg etc., are just there way of guinea testing small changes in our universe.
      (you know, like you don’t go straight to human testing in drug trials etc.)

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    • I do too. Myself and my cousins, along with kids from the neighborhood, had this discussion. Team EEEn and Team EYEn. I’m disturbed.

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    • I remember Berenstein clearly, i tested my memory with friends on social media, they also remember Berenstein. I own a book from early childhood that has never left my possession and it says Berenstain. A truly WTF moment for me.

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  7. Regarding the Mandela Effect and school –
    for now changes are only in North America and English speaking countries – logos, names of people, dramas-series, cartoons, feature films etc, continents – South America is shifted to the right and Australia/New Zealand change positions. Then this is obvious this is a delibarate change. Either someone is saying hello or force us to accept 2000 year old teachings of Buddhism – the life is an illusion.

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    • I had experienced something similar when I was 10-11. There was a water pump inside a dome structure on the way to my school. I distinctly remember it being just beside the road. One day I suddenly notice it was quite far away from the road than I remember. This was around 2000-2001, and I had surely not heard of Mandela effect.
      BTW do not live in North America but in a 3rd world.

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      • Ya I also have this questions when I know abt it just yesterday ,I even search the internet and yes you are right there is one person knew abt it long time ag.not no long perhaps .Buddha already hint it everywhere

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        • Also from mine master a story was told that after buddha”leave” the earth only about a short period ,one if his close disciple already past by “a whole group of monk ,but they all can mistake what buddha said totally in different n his close disciple shock abt it and yes it’s in one of the Zen story still

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      • I also have this questions when I know abt it just yesterday ,and it did not show any Chinese nation events or example I even search the internet and yes you are right there is one person knew abt it long time ag.not no long perhaps .Buddha already hint it everywhere

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      • this could be Mandela Effect but in the same time, human memory is incredibly volatile and even though it seems it is solid and perfect, our memory is really prone to mis-remembering things at more greather length than modern science admits it. i think this may be the reason why mandela effect is unnoticable to many.

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  8. Where Earth is now located in the Milky Way Galaxy is absolute proof of the Mandela Effect. I love outer space and had studied where Earth was located before all of this started happening. Earth was located on the outer perimeter of the Milky Way on the Sagittarius arm. It now says we are located on the Orion Spur. That’s about 75,000-80,000 light years away from where we had been previously.

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    • I also remember a few years ago learning about us being on the Sagittarius arm and it was a big thing that we were passing through the milky way. I distinctly remember thoughts and conversations about how we could end up joining the milky way while passing through. It was around 2012.

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    • it will blow you mind more when you find out the world is flat…. says it in the bible… until Mandela effect changed it. no proof of earth being round… only proof of flat earth… look into it… don’t take my word… research for yourself

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  9. Wrong buddy, yes some ppl can mid remember things, bt give us the benefit of the doubt, we know damn fucking well countries have shifted hundreds and thousands miles overnight, growing up You get the arrangements of the countries imprinted into your mind, in MY earth so south America IS under Mexico, most ppl not notice any changes coz this only affectef a few or more million of us, we somehow got shifted into YOUR dimension, we also suddenly have differeny anatomy, yeah I know how it sounds you closed minded chicken shit scared to open your mind to something that scares you ya chicken shit shallow minded cunt. Some of us had our lives turned upside down, some ppl lost kids over this, all sudn some ppls loved ones don’t exist, I’ve 4 sisters my entire life, now my eldest sister Jenny don’t exist there’s no record of her being fucking born, and I’m just supposed to believe your theory??? I never had 4 sisters I miss remember her?? GO FUCK YOURSELF ASSHOLE

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    • Hi Andon,
      Your comment has resonated deeply with me and I am extremely curious to hear your story. It is hard to fathom what you seem to have gone through and I am incredibly sorry for your loss or, possibly, misplacement? of your famiky memeber. Sounds horrifying. If you are willing to share your story I would be extremely interested in hearing it.

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    • I am sorry for your loss my friend you are absolutely correct this is just the beginning it’s going to be a bumpy ride I have studied quantum physics and even in theoretical circles this should not be possible however it is I know what landmasses changed and are continuing to change my sun was 98,000,000 miles from Earth this sun 92,000,000 I can go on and on with examples you are not alone my friend.

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    • Hi Andon,
      You are the first case I came across of someone whose timeline shift erased a person from their life history. I have a similar experience, so I’d like to contact you and talk about it, if you don’t mind. I have a friend from the past that had two beautiful little girls. We lost contact for decades and I found him again via Facebook, some four years ago. To make a long story short, I saw on his profile his picture with two handsome young guys so I assume they were his kids, he probably married again. I then asked him about his two beautiful girls and he said he never had girls but boys, the boys in the pictures! I was – am still – in shock. Hope to talk to you soon, if you are interested. Blessings always, Boudicca

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  10. What if they were just changed. Could it be that all these things that we “miss-remmember” we just changes made by the author or owner of the content ?

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  11. Do not be deceive for there are a lot of deception in the world today and everybody want to be famous.
    Be very careful about wants in life, if your life is lived mostly around what you want and not the needful things in life, you will open yourself to self deception and the devil will take advantage of you. He and his Angeles are opportunists who want to feed on you. Note the word want.
    Go for the needful things in life, the truth that will set you free. The forgiveness of all your wrongs both the past, present and mostly in the future. Believe it or not everyone needs that to be save from the hands of Satan alies Luciffer. Through JESUS CHRIS OF NAZARETH. For there is trouble coming on all the earth.
    Note it is a need not a want, but it is your choice if you want to treat it as a want and reject it and be destroy, it is totally up to you.
    JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH LOVE YOU. You need that love, so go for it.

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  12. I believe this is a something that has always happened. People forget small details about unimportant things. This had always happened. The difference today is that these people are on the internet, talking to each other and sharing experience. The Mandela effect arises from this set of circumstances. People feel a need to belong and so forth… There you go. These people believe that science is against them, the sheeple, I have been called a binary brain, closed minded, etc.. Because I maintain that quantum mechanics cannot change the name of your favorite bologna.

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  13. When I was at school there was a species of penguin called Marconi. Try finding that now. It has morphed into Macaroni.

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    • The Macaroni penguin was named by English explorers. In the mid 18th century, a young man who wore flashy feathers in his hat was called a “Macaroni”. The English explorers thought the yellow crest feathers of this penguin looked just like the flashy young man….therefore, it was NEVER known as ‘Marconi’. That was only what YOU remember the penguin to be named.

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  14. Sounds like the creator of this report is as elusive as the report they have colated, they would like to suppose a mass hysteria of nutters exposed to too much chemtrail residue, as opposed to the residue left over by the Mandela effect. There are many eminent people who fully understand the Mandela effect, this has not even been considered in the reports body, having it encompassed under the intimation of a mass misremembering or loosely labled under Cognitive dissonance, shows the contempt of misinformation by those who release their take on it without actually stating who they represent and what their qualification is to comment the above statement relating to their opinion on the “Mandela effect” and cant even display reference as to who has created the above guff. what qualification they possess to make such claims, only loosely based on their opinion, who exactly are you, because all you have managed to debunk is the modicum of intelligence resident in your psyche. Einstein commented “Condemnation without investigation is a height of ignorance” and what we have here are writings links and comments born of ignorance, from someone who has skipped the surface on the phenomena, he also said, “if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. who authenticated this data, because it is based on pure speculation without indepth anaylisis or research, it should be filed under a Debunkers introduction to warbling through a sphincter.

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  15. Wondering about your thoughts on prior-life memories where, for example, a young child recalls specific details (like names and relationships) in the life of persons who have already passed away.

    Also wondering about how they’ve transferred memories between rats by replicating one rat’s brain wave patterns using electrodes in another rat’s brain. If such memory transfer is possible then is it inconceivable memories could transfer between different people and through time?

    Finally, what exactly is consciousness?

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  16. Companies changing words or adding words or changing spellings of words doesn’t mean anything. They keep records & can change these things without telling people they did.

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    • Chelsea: Yeah, I agree with you that companies may change their logos, with or without anyone else’s permission… However, try figuring out how a hard copy version of a King James Bible that has been in print since the 1500s now contains words & expressions that were NOT in it only a few years, or even a few months ago… For example, my husband & I have been made aware yesterday via a Youtube presentation that certain words have modernized, seemingly overnight, to include such words as ‘presidents’ (as opposed to prophets), estates (as opposed to fields), shoot (never was in there before…), riots (never was in there before), castles (never was in there before), and many more examples… This is very shocking to us and most Christians on the planet! …at least those who have been made aware of the ME.
      There are many more MEs happening, and the frequency of the MEs is increasing as well. Thanks for you input, Chelsea. However, I am still investigating the MEs around me, as the story certainly doesn’t end here… I will update my comment if and when I find more information on this fascinating topic. In the meantime, happy researching to all of you!

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  17. Ok I just heard about the Mandela effect and now that I have it might explain something that’s always bothered me about my childhood. Before the fall of 2003 when I started kindergarten, my mom held an in home day care with me and four other kids around my age. We had Shrek on vhs and it was our favorite movie, she even got us to eat split pea soup because she called it “Shrek soup.” My mom used to play it for us almost everyday and when it got to the end scene, she’d always have to rewind it and replay it upon our requests because we loved dancing to “I’m a believer” and laughing at our favorite part of the movie: when Dragon shakes her butt while dancing. Yes it’s silly, but we were ages 2-5. We would watch and rewatch that scene just to dance and laugh at Dragon shaking her butt. But when I watch the scene today? Dragon never shakes her butt. It bothers me because I remember distinctly laughing about it, even my mom remembers how much we laughed at it. But apparently it was never in the movie? It’s a minuscule detail but does anyone else remember Dragon shaking her butt in the very last scene of Shrek?

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  18. right andon, fk them, they do not get it and never will, not in this timeline, if we shift again, they’ll be glad they know whats happened, instead of being clueless, naysayers, you might just one day have the tables turn. You do need to give people the benefit of the doubt here. the changes are real,but none of them woke me up to this being real like the jfk assassination now being completely different car and scenario. even c3pos silver leg wouldn’t impress me like the different scenario of a recorded event in history which ive seen numerous times. we had it on vhs, it was on history channel, I watched nearly every youtube video trying to hear the different theories on what happened, now those are erased from existence. creepy indeed

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  19. It’s funny that quote from Forrest Gump “life WAS like a box of chocolate” is translated in the present in foreign versions of film, for example – in German it is synchronized/dubbed in present tense, sub-titles in other languages are in the present tense: “life is like a box of chocolate”. That could not be error, at least one movie would be in the past. Germans are perfectionist, they would not translate past tense in present tense…

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    • Perhaps the Germans corrected it so it made sense… it doesn’t make logical sense to say “life was like a box of chocolates” (as life, being life would still be like a box of chocolates, so “life IS like a box of chocolates” makes logical sense). Forrest Gump was mentally challenged, so it made sense for him to make the error, yet perhaps the Germans wanted it to be logically sound.
      His mother says “life is like a box of chocolates” in another part of the movie and that must be what people remember.

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        • Then all commonly known quotes by famous people are in past tense and not exactly what they said? I’m seriously asking, not trying to be a wise guy 🙂

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    • what it should say is:
      Life’s like the mandela effect…
      you never know whatcha gonna remembA.

      (of course you must say this in Forrest Gump Voice)

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  20. (Please excuse the fact that this is a typical case of the Mandela effect, it just really messed me up.) I specifically remember reading the Berenstain Bears books when I around 3-5 years old. One day I picked up one of my books, and I was looking at the title and I found something was off, just not right… I always remembered it being spelled Berenst”e”in, not Berenst”a”in… I always thought I was just stupid until I started researching the Mandela effect, and found I wasn’t the only one. I definitely believe in this, it’s so weird!

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  21. The way I see it is it’s like if you see a person every day for years and they have had the same haircut every day for years and suddenly one day you see them and they have cut their hair. You are going to notice this change. People might say that others are just not remembering small details but logos and movies have been with us our whole lives and ingrained in us because we have seen these logos and have quoted these lines from movies over and over for years.

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  22. I am finding much of this very fascinating, but a lot of it is simply your brains not reading the full information and you thinking you know something but are wimply wrong

    The silver leg of C3PO for example, was ALWAYS there. It was part of the story because Anakin Skywalker built him when he was a child, and had to use extra parts. This became clear in the Phantom Menace. It has nothing to do with anything magical.

    Similarly with the I am your father scene… Again, the fact that so many people used the phrase including “LUKE” is the reason we seemed to think it, but many of us who are StarWars fans, knew it was wrong right from the off, and many of us also remember from years ago, having to tell people they are saying it wrong too! but the bloody phraze stuck because it just sounded better perhaps?

    I could go on about a number of them that I find funny that people are making a big thing about, but are nothing more than funny things that people are simply miskane about, but its fairly clear to me, that this isa great explanation of how religions started out…. They hear one thing and over time, it gets mixed up and you eventually get it wrong but since so many people believe, then of course it must be true!
    Thats why there are so many delusional idiots around the world who are willing to die or worse, kill for their beleifs and they are simply wrong.
    Shame, and quite sad really.

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  23. I’ve pieced it altogether, all the main changes are deliberate, they all mean something. Please read http://www.ourwonderlife.com/mandela-effect-cern-other-looney-stuff/

    Extract..
    Curious George with no tail is the evolution of man
    Life was like a box of chocolate , was because there are no longer any surprises
    Obama said they had their hands on the Ark of History, a Vessel to control history
    He who controls the past controls the future and he who controls the present controls the past – George Orwell
    Berenstein is a quantum physics who works with the LHC at CERN
    Please read, at the end I explain what we can do about it

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  24. Many Movies have been updated into new formats to look better on our new digital TVS etc….it could be that during this process colours may have been altered by accident or could have been outwith the control of the technicians.
    I have experienced the feeling that certain events happened longer ago than others but I believe it depends on how important that event was to your life, for example 911 happened 15yrs ago yet it feels a lot less….this is because it was such a massive deal and event in the world’s history.

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  25. Remember folks these are you tube / google clips and may have been tampered with. The clips of films like Star wars and Forrest gump have more than likely been dubbed over to support the mandela effect theory. Or they are out-takes which the film companies rejected. The Fresh prince of bell air intro song is the full song which was likely shortened to fit the rolling credits better. The Only way to find out is to look for original Videos VHS or DVD from the year of those films and view them. People do crazy shit online to support conspiracy theories.

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    • That’s the deal. I get what u are saying.. Of course someone can change a you tube video. The issue is truly deeper for those who are having this effect in their lives. My videos have changed! I come from the perspective as those others with an alternate memory. I am a star wars buff since age 10 when it came out. I dressed as c3po one Halloween and he was always solid gold. ALWAYS. I am not dis remembering or having a social consensus issue. This is a clear recall. But…. Now my video shows c3po with a silver leg. Do you know how disturbing that is to me? I also am and have always been an astronomy buff. The milky way has never looked like it does now! The position of the earth was always taught to me as being in the back woods so to speak. The outer rim of the Sagittarius arm. Before I heard of this effect I was watching an astronomy video and recal being surprised quite a bit they were saying we are all most in the middle of the galaxy now! Of course I can’t prove any of that for I have no spaceship to travel and actually see and measure where we are in the galaxy , but I just know that after years of observations on earth that something is quite different to me.
      If you are a person not seeing this effect. I can understand why it makes no sense to you. Or you feel to explain it away as psychological issues. I get it.i think I would do much the same if in that position.
      I am curious if there will be any more “slides” and if the ones not seeing the changes will have changes begin to occur.
      Regardless , I have decided to just go for this ride and live in the moment and not past recalls. As things for me are getting stranger and stranger and personal changes are being observed.
      I wish you all the best and respect your opinion!

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      • Awesome comment. I’m just starting to research this as I just came across a Facebook post about the Mandela Effect and I am very open minded. Yours and Adnon’s comment hit me hard in the gut as truth. Thanks for sharing as obviously it’s not been an easy thing for you. Blessings 🙂

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  26. Dragon does shake her butt at the end of Wheel. It’s where they have several songs mixed into one. Donkey songs “I like big butts and I do not lie” while Dragon is shaking here.

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  27. I blame Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series.
    All joking aside: the simplest explanation, you misremembering something instead of realities shifting is probably correct.
    First world problem.

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  28. Sorry, buddy. The reality shifts called “Mandela Effects” (I hate that name) are real and are happening. You can’t debunk them. Perhaps you personally don’t experience them, but they’re real.

    Get ready, people. $#!+ is going down soon.

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  29. Hey all just wanted to add to the comments about Berenstain Bears. I read those books to my kids a million times and they were then Berenstain Bears. I remember it clearly because I thought it was a dumb name and should have been “Berenstein” bears. Not discounting the Mandela effect at all I find it very interesting and am trying to learn all about it!

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  30. I “remembered” leaving a comment here in the past but then when I came back to read it the words were different. Now when I came back to read it, the words were gone. I’m not serious. Oh by the way I wrote I am serious and it was “changed” to not serious. Oh my.

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  31. It’s not vast, it’s not mysterious, it’s not unexplainable, and it’s not an “event.”

    Why oh why, is the mandela effect only taking place in pop-culture and the media.

    NOT IN ACTUAL LIFE. (besides the crackpot troll above saying his oldest sister no longer existed)

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    • The car that JFK was shot in was in fact a six seater. The car he was riding in with the 5 other people was a modified version of the 1961 Lincoln Continental. After the assassination, this vehicle was sent back to Hess & Eisenhardt where it was completely rebuilt. It said that $500,000 was put into it. 80% of the car was completely modified. The vehicle in the Museums is in fact, a 1961 Lincoln Continental… it’s just not a modified one. So easy to do research people… Goodness… <_<

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  32. I was recently explaining to my grandchildren the dangers of not looking before crossing a road and told them when I was a child my friend who was only eleven got killed after being run over by a lorry. Last week just by coincidence someone had saved the article from the newspaper and posted it on Facebook as it was the 50th anniversary of her death. It said she was knocked down by a car. I distinctly remember it being a lorry and so do others who remembered the accident.
    I often have feelings of deja vu. It is so strong that I am almost certain that I have experienced it before and I know what’s coming next. I wonder if there is any connection with the Mandala effect.

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  33. There is a potential example earlier than the Mandela Effect. Sometime in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s someone on television allegedly announced the death of singer James Brown. (Brown would live until 2006.) This would get greater attention in 1991, when electronic group L.A. Style issued the single “James Brown is Dead”.

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  34. I’ve had moments like this.
    1. Got a Music DVD for Christmas from my boyfriend at the time. We were watching the DVD when the song “All the things she said” from t.A.T.u. came one. He insisted we skip it because it reminded him about his ex. I distinctly remember we had a huge argument about it… but when I went through the DVD again on my own, the song wasn’t on the DVD at all. Never was.
    2. My mom phoned me. She remembers me calling her, but I remember her calling me… but no one called one another. No history on the phone but we both remember the call because it cut out half way through and we sent one another a message asking what happened to the call the other one had made.

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  35. I am a South African, I remember when Mandela was arrested and the famous Rivonia trial and his subsequent incarceration. Yes he did get sick in prison ( wouldn’t you, imprisoned with hard labour?) But he didn’t die in prison. He lived to become the icon of the 20th century. He was released in 1990 and negotiated a peace with the then President De Klerk of the ruling party. AT NO TIME was there news of his death or a funeral of any kind. If he had died in prison there would have been rioting and terrible bloodshed. It would have been world news and there would have been a world uproar because even though he was in prison his name was not allowed tobe forgotten on the world stage. The whole thing is nonsense. If these people who say he died in the 80s can produce newspaper articles and photographs of the time they could have a leg to stand on!

    As far as the Berenstein/Berenstain controversy is concerned, all you need to do is look at books published in the 60s and 70s. BERENSTAIN it was and is now. Not some secret psychical effect.

    I always taught my children never to say, when asked about a certain fact, ‘I seem to remember that ….’ ALWAYS look up the facts before you look like fools in a conversation. Back up what you say with authoritative research!

    I am afraid that people nowadays are willing to look like fools and blame a ‘parallel universe’ for their lack of research.
    On Facebook, one sometimes sees that a particular well-known sportsman or actor has died, everyone goes into a frenzy only to have the event debunked by Hoaxslayer and others. If you only saw the false news, that is what you will take along in you ‘memories’ . Perhaps in the past the same kind of hoax was put about regarding Mandela and that is what their ‘truth’ is. A big fat lie!

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  36. Hi, pay attn, these are NOT mis rememberings, or mispellings or logo changes or name changes. As a matter of fact it appears far more likely that this is a real phenomena where two or more parallel dimensions have formed a nexus, or overlapping and so now we have examples of items being one way AND the other at the same time.
    So a large group of people grew up with Berenstein and it was always that way until lately, but now it is Berenstain and alot of people remember it being that way, or they bindly believe it has always been that way because it is that way now and they can go point at a book and say see stain.
    Well it is not that simple, there is residual evidence of the other dimension, such as some people have found old pics and articles and books and so on that have the old version, like lion lay down with lamb, berenstein, joanne’s and many other can be found in both ways on the net.
    JFK shot in 4 seater or 6 seater, evidence for both, one as real as the other, both have lots of people who remember them because they both happened.
    So how, well cern has said their next goal is to open doorways to other dimensions. So they are good at what they do, top scientists/physicist.
    Next you have the quantum computers said to be able to access parallel dimensions to take resources and bring them back.
    Well I can tell you from experience I am in the mandela effect and see tons of “differences”, not changes, they are different since the beginning of time “here” and I feel like I was a resource that ended up in this place. As it seems many people, places and things have been dimensionally displaced.
    Like C3PO NEVER had a silver leg in star wars, until now. You can find pics for both but now even the star claims he had it silver all along. We are talking about a movie people have seen over and over in some cases and his leg was NEVER silver.
    So we have these new quantum computers 100 million times faster than anything, with added artificial intelligence, working at cern and google and nasa, what could go wrong, right.
    That is currently going on, top mad scientist are talking about dimensional travel and people are complaining of symptoms of dimensional displacements and you people want to spew nonsense about memory or mass hallucination. Good luck but you are dreaming.

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  37. Excuse me whoever you are but I most certainly did not misremember how the Bearenstein Bears was spelled. My ear doctor in 1984 before I started school, had these books in his lobby. They are how I learned to read before all the other kids my age, since I wouldn’t be starting kindergarten until the next year. My mother had to really help me with the whole “e before the i” deal. So, no. It was most definitely not Bearen”stain,” which would have in my mind been filed away with such words as: Brain, train, rain, pain, gain…etc..you get the idea. No confusion on this matter, it was Bearenstein. Have a good day.

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  38. Just because when you look back at what it says that it use to be now, and it says bearenstain, proves absolutely NOTHING. That’s the whole point…. IT’S CHANGED!!!

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  39. so, a woman gets blasted for making a comment about math changing. “oh, that’s impossible!” but yet it’s possible for the past history to change in some mystical way?????? yeah that makes sense! If the past can change, then math can change, or anything on that matter. For folks with such open minds, you are quite close minded. LOL

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  40. ***I just clicked – If you went to the Past to ‘Fix’ something–how would you let people in the Present or Future know. You change something then, that they would see in the Present. Movie Apollo13’s line ‘ Houston, we have a problem’–changed to ‘Houston, we’ve had a problem’!! A trigger so they know when to bring them back or to go on to the next step.*** The 1st ones might have been obvious, before they realized they needed to make them more obscure. I figured out what many of the Mandela effects mean.please see other meanings http://www.ourwonderlife.com/mandela-effect-cern-other-looney-stuff/

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    • I had this same assertion, that these changes in famous sayings and such are just indicators of larger changes made in conjunction as a signal. I’d love to check out your site tomorrow when i get a chance. Best to you and yours and hope your having a good one :))

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  41. I am 66 in my memory tank boy gets run over, he doesn’t climb on the tank at all, the tank goes left and right he goes left and right then tank stops for a moment then drives over tank boy.

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  42. I just heard of the Mandela Effect for the first time today. I’m 50, and I gre up with Star Wars AND The Berenstein Bears. C3po has ALWAYS been solid gold, and when I read above, the first comment talking about C3 POs color, I thought to myself, ” What the hell are they talking about? He’s solid gold.” So I’m SHOCKED that ANYONE is even PRETENDING that he’s not solid gold.
    Also, I have always been an excellent speller. So much so, that when I was in 11th grade, my teacher for my design for Critical Thinking class, was writing his important paper for a degree. He showed it to me, and I found 3 words, 2 of which I had never seen before and did not know what they meant, but I told him they were spelled wrong. He looked them up and I was correct. It has ALWAYS been Berenstein Bears. I remember because I associated it with the famous Steiff teddy bears, as the spelling was SIMILAR, being Es and Is. NEVER AN A. Period. Incredible.

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  43. Let’s assume somebody from the future HAD travelled back in time and somehow triggered a change in reality/time/space. Let’s take the Berenstain example. Logically the change triggered by the time-traveler would have had to occur before the creator of the series (whose actual name was Stanley Berenstain) was born – in order for his name to change. Even for the sake of argument if it had only influenced him to change the name of the characters and the book series, which first appeared in 1962, this would mean that there would be NOBODY who could remember any of the books being published under any other name. If the hypothetical time traveler had triggered a change of events after the book series began, it could not have logically changed the name of the characters or their creator. These factors could only be changed at their origins.

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  44. Earth system had been hacked.. to debunk read message upside down and back to first.
    Someone trying to pass a message to us -we are blinded and dont want to leave the box.
    We ve been blinded for so many decade to stay in the box.
    Reality is like a computer game were the character is given a set of code to get to the end of the game and if interesting the player will like the developer to make another one with same character but more advance. so the developer will add more scene to encourage player to continue or develop characters to be more appealing to players.
    we re the computer characters(our world) and we been played by advance forces. With these nuclear and war going on what do u expect.
    we re running an advance source code in reality.

    so those folks remembering their past changed or more advanced are right.
    Do ur research alot to know.
    just remember everything has + or – , good or bad, black or white,light or darkness.. that is the source code foundation.

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