Your Mandela Effect moment

[StockpotSoup]

I posted about mine on here a while back… it was about two celebrities that I distinctly remembered were supposed to have dated, but there’s literally nothing about in online, and no one here remembered either (and even found proof that one half of the supposed couple was married to someone else at the time!)

Have you had a Mandela Effect moment? And, when you realised you’d misremembered something, how did you react? My instinct was to look for logic explanations (e.g. I’d misunderstood a denial of a rumoured relationship). However, when I look at these things online, I’m amazed by how many people will accept literally any other explanation than “I was wrong”.

One that particularly fascinates me is around a film called Shazam. Countless people claim they can remember it, that they used to watch it all the time when they were kids… yet it doesn’t exist. When you read into it, it actually becomes quite obvious how it happened: there was a film called Kazaam that came out around the same time with the exact plot they describe, and Sinbad - the actor/comedian they believe starred as a genie in Shazam - starred in a series of TV ads as a genie around the same time. Yet thousands utterly refuse to believe that there’s no such film.

Anyone got any good examples?

@NorthCliffs Dolly's braces is the only one I've ever experienced and it bothers me so much. I remember being quite freaked out by her mouth full of metal as a child.

Without the braces the whole romance doesn't make any sense!!

Wtf.

The question posed in the OP was:

Have you had a Mandela Effect moment? And, when you realised you’d misremembered something, how did you react?

OP was asking for 'Your Mandela Effect Moment' - not for general examples of the Mandela Effect.

I have a distinct memory of being a child (say between 3 and 5) and regularly jumping all the way down the stairs of my parents house. And landing perfectly on my feet every time. It was a bog standard terrace house with a dozen or so steps

My adult brain is 99% sure this is a false memory (obviously)

I’ve read recently that it is a common false memory to have. Particularly people mentioning ‘floating’ down stairs

just wondering if this counts as a Mandela effect as it’s a memory which is specific to me but also a false memory that is common among a lot people

I think you’re thinking of “Keeping the Dream Alive” by Freheit:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=56scx2Cdpyw&pp=ygUga2VlcGluZyB0aGUgZHJlYW0gYWxpdmUgZnJlaWhlaXQ%3D

Ok so the spooky thing is that I was thinking about this very episode this week! Because as I remember it, it was the only ever “to be continued” episode and I was gutted that somehow I missed the follow up and never found out what happened. A couple of years later the same episode was on and I was like “I’ll be fucked if I miss part two of this again - I need to know what happens!” and it was never shown! They went from D&D to mysterious cities of gold or something the following week.

so for bloody years I’ve wondered what ever happened in part 2 of this episode, given they had spent forever trying to get home!!

I can’t remember what made me think of it the other day though…

@StockpotSoup maybe the way I wrote my initial post was wrong?

" .... I'm sure of it" is me questioning myself, sort of like this emoji 🤔

Its not me accusing walkers of lying. It's me questioning my own misremembered event as that is my Mandela effect.

Bit annoying all the comments saying “no the crisp colours never swapped over.” That’s not the point! Okay, so YOU don’t remember it happening. The point is, a very large number of people vividly do. So why is that? Is it a sign they’ve slipped in from a parallel universe, one that’s very close to ours but not exact?

For me personally, it’s the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia. I can picture that logo being on shirt labels when I was a child in the 90s. Horrible scratchy labels.

The point is, a very large number of people vividly do. So why is that?
Because different brands had the colours the other way round and a lot of people were confused by that. As has been explained multiple times.

😮I have this one, too! Also jumping over the banister on the landing to the hallway below (and being unharmed). Must have never happened though.

🙄

I swear that I read in the newspaper Steffi Graf had married herself, in the late 1980s/early 1990s. But I cannot find anything at all about this, so it can’t be true. I’ve thought it for years and years.

I have no idea what that emoji is meant to convey

I’ve heard it said that the common floating down the stairs memory is actually a memory of being carried by a parent.

Think about it, how often have you carried your children, yet how much do you remember being carried?

But that is virtually the definition of the Mandela Effect! A multitude of people believing something happened when it didn’t!

I’m sure I remember it too.

Doesn't it?! I remember this too!

Oops sorry, just watched this. Interesting.

Yes both of these, I remember floating down the stairs, jumping over the banisters and jumping from the middle of the stairs. I’ve sort of rationalised this now I have 2.5 year old- we “fly”
him quite a lot (obv not on the stairs!) and wonder if that’s where we’ve got the sensation from? He gets carried up to bed and down in the mornings, I wonder if those early memories of flying are actually us being carried and we eliminate the adult in the scenario? Having said this my memory of flying down the stairs I’m older, maybe 5/6?

Managed to watch it on YouTube, that's definitely the scene I'm remembering! No idea why it got amalgamated into my Vicar of Dibley memories, thanks for solving the mystery for me!

"Sweet dreams are made of these" is apparently incorrect and it's "sweet dreams are made of this" eurythmics

Also, I'm convinced the monopoly man had a monocle

Lastly I'm sure the tv program was "sex in the city" not "sex and the city"

‘Sweet dreams are made of these’ makes no sense - why would you think it was that?

Because lots of song lyrics are nonsensical. May I refer you to Paul McCartney’s Live and Let Die:
“But if this ever changin' world
In which we live in”

It's "in which we're living" which makes perfect sense.

In remember being on holiday and hearing on the news that Oscar Pistorius had been released from prison. But I'm convinced and sure that heard on the news years prior, that he had died in prison. I still feel like I experienced some sort of time slip with that one.

The end of the movie 14 going on 30 has the older woman walking into the classroom as a teenager. It was released at a similar time to Big.