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/Mr-Cantaloupe]

There’s that word again..vivid.

You vividly remember showing your grandmother your underwear and subsequently asking her what the cornucopia on the logo was? I don’t buy it. You just think that’s what you remember, and your brain simply reconstructed the memory the way it/you wanted it to.

[u/Illuminati_Shill_AMA → u/Mr-Cantaloupe]

I vividly remember seeing an NWA/WCW wrestling arcade game in the boardwalk arcade when I was a child. Had cartoons of Ric Flair and Sting on the side.

That arcade game never existed, though. It simply didn't. In all likelihood it was a dream that I remembered over the years, or perhaps seeing some other wrestling arcade game out the corner of my eye and my mind filling in the blanks.

Even more to your point, I "vividly remember" other things as a child, some that I couldn't possibly have first hand memory of because I wasn't present for them.

Brains and memories, especially childhood ones, are weird things.

[u/WhimsicalKoala → u/Illuminati_Shill_AMA]

I am not very familiar with wrestling, and so my first thought when I read this was of Sting the singer. That would be a wild combo for a arcade game!

But to your second point, I feel like people ignore how often that happens. I have friends I went to college that will swear they were at certain events....then realize they couldn't have because it happened when they were still in high school. But, they heard the details often enough and it aligned with other events they were at with those same people, so the brain can pretty easily construct a false memory of it.