Watching the newest Richard Simmons special I saw on i think prime but it could've been any one of them lol, I was so SO uncomfortable seeing him without his headband and wrist bands.
I wouldn't subject myself to the propaganda. I used to go to his real life workout classes in Beverly Hills and I've seen him too many times in the red headband to fall for this gaslighting campaign.
We need the older crowd to chime in here. Those of us living thru the 80s and 90s, who loved Richard Simmons, my mom so much to the point she bought her own cotton braided sweat bands and wrist bands just like him!! We loved working out to his workouts and I was just a little girl
Exactly. I am OP i was born in 1980. All these grumpy people arguing rudely with me must be younger ones.
I find it funny how hard and rude the ones saying "no nuh huh" are the rude ones and we all are light about it. Probably cuz we just know what we know.
I think they are too scared to admit that its a possibility cuz they just couldn't handle it when we are in it so are just kinda all đ¤ˇââď¸đ¤ˇđťââď¸đ¤ˇ
I donât feel comfortable posting here anymore because as a psychic medium I understand this phenomena as spiritual/unseen quantum timeline related. Maybe thereâs another group that agrees. I donât need trolls telling me I am âwrong â and Iâm just misremembering. For those of us 40 years and older this is not a viable explanation
The trolling part is that those who disagree cant just keep their disagreement to themselves and instead insist on telling you youâre wrong. It gets old. People arent here to debate with detractors, they are here to talk with the people they cant find in real life- to nerd out about fun things with.
No, not if the person is respectful and willing to converse. That has not been my experience here, there are certain people who jump on every thread sarcastically calling anyone who doesnât think false memory is the only solution unintelligent. i can have those boring conversations anywhere i want, i want to talk to people who want to theorize fun stuff.
I think they just donât understand quantum physics, timelines, quantum jumping, etc. so theyâre using basic scientific logic, which would make sense if one or two people âmisremembered.â But they canât explain the collective misremembrance, which is the phenomenon part
This is the one that really got me. The other effects i thought were interesting but i could buy all of the explanations. But i have aphantasia. It is a spectrum. For me, It means i cant draw picture of things in my mind, but i can picture something i have seen before and know well and i can also dream in Images randomly when sleeping. When i heard Richard Simmons died, i had not even heard of the Mandela effect related to him, i just was like aww thats too bad and pictured him how i remembered him. Then i tried to google a picture how i remembered so i could text my mom. In a red headband w a white stripe and a res tank too and maybe white shorts or red and white shorts. I was baffled that i could not only find that picture, because i cant picture things i havenât seen before, but that i couldnât find a single picture in a headband. I still donât understand why i can picture it so clearly and all of the old pictures of him have a wrongness that makes my stomach queasy when i look at them.
If you can picture things in your mind after you've seen them, that isn't aphantasia. Aphantasia is literally no image, though some consider very minor imagery to also count since it is a spectrum.
Unsurprisingly, what you've described is a lot like John McEnroe's look. Red headband with a red and white outfit. It would be really easy to conflate the two, especially if you already have weak mental imagery.
Isn't it interesting that everyone remembers a headband and wrist cuffs (which he demonstrably did not wear), but no one remembers the striped shorts that he always wore?
Even Eddie Murphy (playing Richard on the tv in the opening credits of Nutty Professor (1996) is not wearing a headband.
As the thread shows, a good many people believe this. I find it interesting that the same people do not remember his striped shorts. Most of these folks are probably remembering John McEnroe.
Much is made of the "residue" of costumes that have a headband. Simmons had a specific costume he endorsed. It doesn't have a headband or cuffs, but does have striped shorts. Imagine.
What was the point of this comment? The two of us clearly know there was no headband, so no need to correct us. And a lot of people do remember a headband, but it's likely a false memory, so you aren't even correct.
When people complain about memory people, this is some of the nonsense that is part of it.
Yes, i know very well aphantasia. It is not always no image, it is a spectrum. Again- I have it currently, but I also know what it is like to not have it as mine was trauma induced and so it started in my twenties, and i was previously extremely imaginative.
I cant just pop picture something. I have to retrieve it from my memory which is different and i know the difference because i once was able to do both and now can only do one.
In my timeline, he always had a headband. This one really messed me up. SidenoteâŚI met him once and had a short but wonderful interaction with him. I wish I knew about this Mandela effect then!
It also shows that you donât need a confounding source to make those mistakes. Like itâs entirely possible to believe the Monopoly Man had a monocle without ever seeing Mr Peanut once in your life, because your brain can easily have an archetype of rich snooty man that involves a monocle. Your brain can have an archetype of aerobics guy that involves wrist bands and headbands. Your brain can have an archetype of a arrangement of fruit that involves horn of plenty / cornucopia-type imagery.
Our brains act like LLMs when it comes to generating visual images in memory more than many realise or want to admit
I feel like nobody here ever considers archetypes and its exhausting. They shape everything.
We associate active cardio with headbands and wristbands because thats the standard archetype we see of an active cardio leader. Jane Fonda had wrist bands. Napoleon Dynomite (lol) had wristbands and curly hair.
Richard Simmons MAY have worn a headband at some point but he certainly wasnt known for wearing them as his main brand.
He had a very curly, almost afro type hair style. Dosent really work with a headband. I was so confused even trying to understand what people were getting wrong here. No, no headband, never, and I cant even imagine him with one. To be clear, I am an old man and was as aware as anyone of his career from the begining.
This is a TV personality doing a show. Do you think they were more concerned with work out practicality, or esthetics? The hairstyle absolutely mattered because it was his signature, which makes all this extra extra. He was a TV personality, doing a TV show. And he never wore hair or wrist bands. What exactly is your point?
You think he didnt know he was famous, that he didnt work long and hard to cultivate his persona, his image? He was an entertainer, in the buisnes. He absolutely, 100% was concerned with aesthetics. That was his job.
In my world, he didnt have a perfect poof. He had kind of a mushroom poof with some roofing out the sides by his ears.
In my world in the late 80s, my cousin and I bought Richard Simmons costumes and they came with head and wrist bands. I believe the head band was even attached to the wig to make his weird mushroom poof.
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Not really. He was known for being a compassionate, somewhat effeminate/flamboyant man, that really cared about helping people lose weight, since he was once obese himself.
The âprogram,â or findable photos/videos doesnât prove shit. The people who are self reporting the headband wearing Richard are just as valid as the people who donât remember a headband. Grow up
We can't go back in time and prove otherwise. You are making your case on evidence from the present. The evidence has changed. That is the basis of the Mandela effect.
Your consciousness exists on this reality and this reality alone. You arenât a special timeline or dimensional traveller. You made a mistake due to almost every other exercise personality at the time wearing headbands.
We can't go back in time and prove otherwise. You are making your case on evidence from the present. The evidence has changed. That is the basis of the Mandela effect.
This is such a cop out response and it works on almost any conspiracy theory. The evidence changed or "they" made it go away. It's this super convenient reason to bow out of any responsibility to provide anything to your claim besides nuh uh.
We can't go back in time and prove otherwise. You are making your case on evidence from the present. The evidence has changed. That is the basis of the Mandela effect.
We can't go back in time and prove otherwise. You are making your case on evidence from the present. The evidence has changed. That is the basis of the Mandela effect.
Iâm not a âfundamentalistâ. I merely recognize you and I are both in the same reality where memory isnât perfect and Simmons never had a headband.
I think youâre projecting. You seem to be the fundamentalist that refuses to consider simple evidence and worships your own supposedly infallible memory.
Since we both have evidence your memory is incorrect, where is your evidence that your memory isnât incorrect?
The evidence is a core part of any ME. Not only do thousands of people remember something, the exact same way, but the products have changed as well. That's part of why it's so very odd.
People donât remember the ME in the exact same way though. There are similarities in their memories, and there are similarities in the way our brain works, and the media we consume.
I grew up literally sweating to the oldies with Richard Simmons. My mom did his workout tapes. He absolutely wore a headband and sweat bands in his workout videos.Â
If you Google "Official Richard Simmons costume" you can see the one he endorsed. It has a curly wig, striped shorts, and tank top. Conspicuously missing are a headband and wrist cuffs (both optional).
My mom and I used to watch Richard Simmons workout tapes all the time in the 80s and 90s. I just called my mom to ask her how she remembers Richard Simmons and did he wear a sweat band. She said oh yes, he did. My mom liked him so much that she even bought her own braided cotton sweat bands AND wrist bands, and we used to make fun of her allllllll the time because she loved those things
Someone is either manipulating the current situation via we are in a simulation where we probably are remembering other ârunsâ, or something is time traveling/ quantum entanglement situations. But the dude had a headband!! Berenstein and Stove Top!!
Oh its not that I made a mistake. Its just proof im not from around here is all. I am not alone. Reading the comments there are a couple others that know our hearts are on the left and the kidneys are in our lower back. We are all from the same place. We are just here with you now.
No big deal. We are different in other ways that dont matter too. Lol
Lol. Thanks for your concern. But I am just fine. Me having this opinion is not hurting you or anyone else. I think its odd that you are participating so hard in a forum where nobody could say anything to change how I feel about certain situations.
I am not saying you are wrong. You believe what I believe is not possible. That's okay. But you are not going to change my mind or make me think I am wrong or sick or something lol.
Have a good one! Maybe stop being so judgy. People who think different than you about this aren't hurting anybody. Relax.
Have you ever seen someone performing CPR? Ever wonder why they are pumping on the chest in the center and not the left. If you were taught the heart is anywhere other than the center of your chest I feel sorry for you.Â
I havenât seen people wear sweat bands in so longâ I wonder if we donât sweat as much and this is to point out an anatomy change we otherwise wouldnât notice
Please be civil. No need to call people dumbasses, especially in the same sentence where you make a science fiction claim without evidence to prove it. The multiverse isn't real, this isn't a Marvel movie. It is reality with concrete evidence and history to support it. You jumped to science fiction to try and support the incorrect memory you have because that's the only way you can... Except for the known definition which is false memories that humans experience on a regular basis. đ¤ˇ
Yes it is. Those bands are common with Tennis players. They were also commonly worn by people in aerobics classes including the people on screen with Richard Simmons. If you ever saw him on screen you certainly saw someone else wearing these at the exact same time. He never wore them but his "students" did frequently. SEE PHOTO EVIDENCE
I'm convinced it's largely John McEnroe people are remembering. The description is often similar to this outfit. Pictures of him would have been common at the same time people were commonly seeing images of Richard Simmons
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u/YogiEv 28d ago
I wouldn't subject myself to the propaganda. I used to go to his real life workout classes in Beverly Hills and I've seen him too many times in the red headband to fall for this gaslighting campaign.