Mandela Effect/False Memories

[DrLoomis]

Thank you for this thread. This really interests me and I have read so many articles online about what people have experienced. For those that aren't sure what it is all about, it comes from the idea of a large number of people sharing a memory that is wrong. It is named after Nelson Mandela and the idea that many people have a memory of him passing away in prison in the 1980s. Researcher Fiona Broome discovered in her research that a large proportion of people remembered watching his funeral on television and his widow giving a heartbreaking speech. Of course this didn't happen as Mandela didn't pass away until 2013.

Other examples include "Luke, I am your Father" a misquoted line from Star Wars when in fact it is "No, I am your Father" and also the location of New Zealand - all of it is worth a google (but watch out for the rabbit hole!) because it is very interesting. The theories out there are that we have switched into alternate realities or are experiencing a "glitch in the matrix" I believe it is just a false memory but I find it interesting as to why it happens. Especially when the memory is shared with others.

I really don't have a Mandela Effect on a large scale, and it is a bit daft. My one was shared by my sister who was there at the time and one more who shared it later on. In the 1980's my Sister and I were watching the film "The Birds". Years later I saw it again and I was bitterly annoyed at seeing an "alternate" version where the ending I remembered wasn't featured. The ending I remembered saw the main characters taking refuge in a hospital and suffering another bird attack. I can honestly still see it so clearly in my mind to this day. I can even quote it. "Get under the bed and don't make a sound" (Said by Rod Taylor's character, Mitch).

I even text my sister on my second viewing to ask what she remembered of the ending and she said the same thing. The film doesn't end in a hospital and Alfred Hitchock didn't film any other ending. One was written which featured the Golden Gate Bridge but it was never filmed. Just a few years ago I was at the Theatre and we got speaking to a couple at the table next to us in the bar and for some reason the film came up and the woman said "Oh that's that film with the mad scene at the end in the hospital." She didn't quote it but she remembered Rod Taylor hiding his sister under the bed. That spooked me.

Where do these memories come from? I still find this so strange. I would love to hear if anyone else has experienced such things. I'm also sorry for the essay post I have written!

 

[Dot_Cotton]

Back in the 90’s I remember Cheese and Onion Walkers being green and Salt and Vinegar being blue. I distinctly remember them switching this. But Walkers confirmed that there never was a switch.

 

[Purrrrrrr]

Back in the 90’s I remember Cheese and Onion Walkers being green and Salt and Vinegar being blue. I distinctly remember them switching this. But Walkers confirmed that there never was a switch.

In the 70s my sister lived Peterborough I stayed up there and went to buy some crips they sold walkers ( hardly anywhere else sold them)picked up the green pack that had always been synonymous with cheese and onion and they were salt and vinegar. I had to throw them away as hated them. . from my first pack of walkers cheese and onion in a blue bag I was hooked so much so that my husband had to drive from London to Peterborough when I was pregnant to buy me a whole box..

Goldern wonder was the most popular crisp at the time and those and every other crips maker had them the other way around to walkers. then slowly walkers took over as the biggest seller. I believe that is how the misremembering of that came about.


I do believe in the Mandela affect but I know 100% that walkers have always had their cheese and ioion in blue packs.

 

[Beaversabout]

I can't see skechers without seeing sketchers. That's how I remember seeing it.

 

[Kim Mild]

Back in the 90’s I remember Cheese and Onion Walkers being green and Salt and Vinegar being blue. I distinctly remember them switching this. But Walkers confirmed that there never was a switch.

Golden wonder always had cheese and onion green, s & v blue maybe people get the brands mixed up .

Own brand crisps can be either which can be confusing.

 

[DrLoomis]

The Walker's Crisps is a total Mandela Effect. There is a 200+ page thread on another site where posters are convinced they remember a change. Good God, I remember a big deal being made in the 90s when the packets were changing colour. Where did this come from? As @Purrrrrrr said, the fact that Golden Wonder have it the other way around (Or the RIGHT WAY!) might count for something but for so many remembering the packets changing it really makes you think.

Earlier in the thread, the Who Wants to be A Millionaire coughing scandal was brought up. I too, especially at the time the drama Quiz was broadcast, saw many people commenting that "I saw it when it was broadcast, I KNEW something was going on!!!" As has been said, it was never broadcast at the time - but there was a "Tonight" special which showed the programme with enhanced coughing.

Oddly enough isn't that a Mandela Effect in itself? The episode is known as the "Coughing Major" but Charles Ingram didn't actually do the coughing..... or am I taking it too far?

I am reading everyone's contribution's to this thread - it is a great interest of mine and I am pleased to read what others think of it.

Take care all. Dr L.

 

[HockyRorror]

The fairly recent one was when ITV did that three part series called Quiz about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire coughing cheat. Absolutely loads of people were posting that they remembered watching the episode at the time and even back then they knew something was off, etc.

But they didn’t. They couldn’t have. The episode where he cheated was never broadcast. Clips from the episode aired on a documentary about the scandal as the trial gained momentum, but that’s it. Yet so many people commented they watched it.

 

[Twistedpants]

This thread is messing with my head I feel like I've entered a parallel universe where nothing makes sense anymore more

 

[Pesky Tarian]

We regularly visit a particular town for weekends away, husband and I both have a memory of visiting a curry house on a particular street - quite frankly because it was the best curry we ever had !

Despite walking up and down the street again every time we visit we can never find it. Asking in the shops no locals remember there being a curry restaurant there ever. Yet both of us remember the location with clarity.

 

[mixusmaxus]

I have very realistic reoccurring dreams if that counts? One involved a death of a nonexistent sibling that my parents refused to let us talk about. And it is so realistic and happens so often that I really do pause and think. As far as I’m aware it isn’t reality but my therapist had a field day with that one trying to rule out whether it was a repressed memory !!!

 

[Purrrrrrr]

This is the thing!
A bit part isn't even that I remember them being the opposite colour. It's that I remember there being a big thing about them switching colours at the time!

I really believe its when Walkers went nationwide that the mixup began. This was a huge thing even before the mandella effect become a thing
Before, you could only get Walkers in certain places, people who already knew the Walker brand knew the colours but once they went nationwide people got really confused that cheese and onion were in blue bags and salt and vinegar were in the green bag.
If my sister had not moved to the back of beyond where they sold wakers I too would probably remember it differently. but for me, it's a specific memory as I craved walkers cheese and onion during my pregnancy and we had to drive miles to get them. and that was before the nice fast roads were built. As I said before the first pack I bought of Walkers I had to throw as it was salt and vinegar in a green pack. I was like WTF




mirror mirror always gets me. people say you must remember from the book as the books say mirror mirror but the film doesn't. But I didn't even know there were Disney books. I asked my granddaughter when she was about 3 0r 4 ( she is now 10) "what does the queen say when she looks into the mirror" she said mirror mirror my granddaughter had only seen the film.




I have my own personal one. I remember exactly where I was when the Falklands war broke out I was in a woman's refuge because my 2nd husband was a violent nutter and I remember it clearly because a friend I had made in there phoned her son up in the middle of the night crying that we were now at war. I remember when Simon Weston came home and the news was full of it and we were sitting at the table in the refuge kitchen watching the only TV in the house.


The other day they were talking about it and how it started in 1982 my mind was blown. I was still with my 1st husband then not even met my 2nd one..



The difference between those memories is that the Walkers one is a very very clear memory. absolutely no doubts, but the other two have hazy parts, like, oh could it have been, or maybe it was .......

 

[emmer_moans]

The fairly recent one was when ITV did that three part series called Quiz about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire coughing cheat. Absolutely loads of people were posting that they remembered watching the episode at the time and even back then they knew something was off, etc.

But they didn’t. They couldn’t have. The episode where he cheated was never broadcast. Clips from the episode aired on a documentary about the scandal as the trial gained momentum, but that’s it. Yet so many people commented they watched it.

Omg, I thought I had seen it too, it must have been clips that I saw. I think it was made into such a big thing that we probably felt like we had seen the episode. Wow

 

[MillionDollarBaby]

My dad and I can both clearly remember having a conversation with my grandfather about the events of 9/11. We both remember the conversation exactly the same way. Particularly relevant as my aunt and cousin were in New York at the time.
My grandfather died on the 9th of September, we can’t explain it.

 

[1001 others]

I have a very weird one.

I visit the next town over a lot, and always take the same shortcut to get to a business that I frequent (turn right into a street off the highway, turn left at the end, take the first street on the right, then take the next street on the left).

Today, I took the same shortcut I normally do, only to end up down a private driveway of houses! It was a HUGE, 'What?!!!' moment. I exited, turned around and headed back along the first street ... only to have to travel an extra 500 or so metres before I saw the street I normally turn down.

I honestly do not remember this other street that I mistakenly turned into, even existing! I have never, ever seen it ... and I've been taking this route for 25+ years!

 

[Sleepthiefismyfavourite]

I always thought it was a wine/deep pink colour

 

[klarakluckbag]

I can't see skechers without seeing sketchers. That's how I remember seeing it.

I just had to Google this, I had no idea it was spelled without a "T" in the middle!

 

[Sleepthiefismyfavourite]

Back in the 90’s I remember Cheese and Onion Walkers being green and Salt and Vinegar being blue. I distinctly remember them switching this. But Walkers confirmed that there never was a switch.

I remember this too!

 

[S29S37]

My Mandela effect is that the statue of liberty is holding an open book and not a tablet.

I find the Mandela effect so interesting.
I read that the world actually ended in 2012 like the mayans predicted, but rather than ending like you would imagine, we just slipped into an alternative universe.
Either way, it's fascinating how so many people can share a memory that never happened. How could our brains all make up the same thing?

 

[S29S37]

Back in the 90’s I remember Cheese and Onion Walkers being green and Salt and Vinegar being blue. I distinctly remember them switching this. But Walkers confirmed that there never was a switch.

My husband remembers this, he says there was even an advert for it that was something to do with football.

 

[Sibz]

My ones are the Monopoly man having a monocle, apparently he's never had one! And Febreeze is actually spelt Febreze