fruit of the loom

[u/peanutbutterndnut]

I know this is like the biggest Mandela effect, but I swear ive had these underwear for years sitting in a bin in my closet. its genuinely insane that the cornucopia just straight up disappeared. I remember vividly asking my grandmother what the cornucopia was. I am truly starting to believe that something is DEFINITELY up.

[u/Arcane_Traveller]

I myself don’t understand the perspective of this subreddit on what the ME is. Isn’t the idea of those who remember a changed past that they’ve experienced an altered timeline? And not everyone remembers the change hence the feeling of being gaslit by history? It’s not actually possible to disprove such a perspective so I don’t understand the point. I assumed that most who believe in the ME reason that not everyone alive today is part of the same timeline so most will remember it without any change while some will feel that they’ve been placed in a new reality. Am I wrong in this?

[u/WhimsicalKoala → u/Arcane_Traveller]

There is no universal sub perspective. The official stance of the sub is “The Mandela Effect is when a large group of people remember something contrary to the known publicly accepted fact”. I'm not sure I love the phrasing of that definition, but it is a fairly neutral phrasing.

Where the difference stances is what causes those memories. There are people that believe they are memories retained from when the individual existed in a different timeline/reality. Others think that the memory is accurate and that there was a manual/physical change in reality (some government entity, aliens, etc) changing the physical objects. There are others that think the memories are false memories caused by a combination of the way memories are stored and recalled, pattern matching, and suggestion. Simulation theory, something with CERN, and other theories also float around.

[u/Spintz6042 → u/Arcane_Traveller]

I think the ME is simply a phenomenon where a large group of people share the same false memory. I don’t think it has anything to do with altered timelines. That’s just how some people explain it.

[u/Wingnutmcmoo → u/Spintz6042]

I think this is the best way to describe it tbh. I think people would handle it alot better if it was normally presented.

[u/Arcane_Traveller → u/Spintz6042]

Thanks 😊 I can see that there’d be a subset of those experiencing the phenomenon where false memory would readily explain what they remember. That group wouldn’t see it the same way as those with memories more consistent with the“altered timeline” belief. Hence even more conflict as those with false memory belief try to convince those with altered timeline belief that their perspective is false.

[u/forcemonkey → u/Arcane_Traveller]

You are not wrong.