What are your experiences with the Mandela Effect? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by gianni@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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See title. For those who don’t know, the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large group of people remember something differently than how it occurred. It’s named after Nelson Mandela because a significant number of people remembered him dying in prison in the 1980s, even though he actually passed away in 2013.

I’m curious to hear about your personal experiences with this phenomenon. Have you ever remembered an event, fact, or detail that turned out to be different from reality? What was it and how did you react when you found out your memory didn’t align with the facts? Does it happen often?

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[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Shazaam!

[-] RampageDon@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Wait isn't there a movie like this but it's Shaq as the genie. Kazaam.

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Heh yup! That’s part of the effect, a whole generation potentially conflated Shaq’s movie with a movie that was never made. Scroll down the link I posted, they mention it. So bizarre.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Sinbad made this movie, 100% it happened.

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Lol I got into a pretty heated argument with a group of friends, half of whom definitely remembered the movie and even started recounting some of the plot. The other half had no idea what the hell we were talking about.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

So fess up - which half were you siding with Bertram?

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Oh I definitely remember seeing the movie. I even remember the VHS dust jacket on the shelves of Blockbuster. But who the hell knows lol

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Dude yes!!! I remember that same jacket! Thanks for preserving my sanity for another day Bertram, hero.

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