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Post by wannabeyourmonster on May 21, 2016 20:57:10 GMT
So Mandela effect is basically a theory based on shared false memories. It refers to apparently real, alternate memories of a history that doesn’t match the documented history in this reality. You can google it for more info. I found this reddit thread and there is a bunch of different people confident that they were listening to Avril's Girlfriend years before it was released. Someone even says in 90's. I don't necessarily believe this, and I think that memory can sometimes play tricks on us, but I thought it was interesting anyway.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2016 21:21:05 GMT
what the heck? LOL Sometimes I remember things from a time I thought I was younger, but I was actually older when it happened, but this is weird X'D
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Post by fcpunk on May 21, 2016 22:25:45 GMT
Wow this is weird!
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Post by In Wonderland on May 21, 2016 22:33:57 GMT
I sang the lyrics of Jason Maraz I Won Give Up two months before it was released. Never heard it before that. Didn't read the lyrics... Am i also being a victim of the Mandela effect
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Post by StrongSweet on May 22, 2016 9:42:34 GMT
It also happens when riding in subway to some people. But I think it basically means your memories messed up ~
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Post by Gabo on May 22, 2016 13:20:12 GMT
Damn they must have a really bad connections with memories
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Post by goodbye on May 22, 2016 14:45:49 GMT
it's funny to know that some people heard Avril before she was famous maybe they bought the single
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Post by Avengium on May 22, 2016 15:00:53 GMT
The Mandela effect rocks! I like the Mandela effect. For me is so interesting! And is real science, the Mandela Effect is something that psychologists study.
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Post by wannabeyourmonster on May 22, 2016 16:32:01 GMT
Yeah I think most of the things people remember differently have an easy explanation. But then I came across one thing that freaked me out a little. It's about the famous Henry VIII portrait with turkey leg. Do you remember that one? Henry VIII having a dinner? Good, because it apparently never existed.
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Post by BogoGog24 on May 22, 2016 22:24:52 GMT
I've never heard of the Mandela effect before (I honestly thought it had something to do with Nelson Mandela ) but I have heard of the concept of people remembering events wrong and tricking their brain into thinking it's part of their memory. Logically there is no way any of these people could have heard Girlfriend before 2007. Claiming to have heard it in the late '90s, well Avril was a young child then, let alone did she have a record deal or make that song. It's impossible. They are probably mixing it up with a song that sounds similar or one of her other songs. They were probably a young kid listening to Hey Mickey, which sounds similar, and their brain just associates it with the same song, or perhaps they were listening to Sk8er Boi which was around in the period they claim to have heard Girlfriend (early 2000s) and is also an upbeat pop punk song with a similar kind of story (guy and girl relationship, Avril ends up with him in the end). I could see people confusing the 2 easily. Either that, or they are remembering the years wrong. Perhaps they even are mixing her up with a similar kind of artist like Alanis Morissette or Michelle Branch. But it's very strange that, not just one person, but several people can claim to have known this song before its existence. Sometimes we rewrite events in our minds and end up remembering events or memories incorrectly. Especially if a memory is based on what someone else told us. Like our parents telling us about what we were like when we were babies, we obviously have no memory of it, and can only rely on what other people have told us. This makes me think about the concept of deja vu. I feel like it happens to me pretty often. Like every once in awhile I'll just be somewhere and suddenly I get a weird feeling, like I've seen this before or this particular thing happened before. It's really weird. Who knows, maybe that and the Mandela effect are similar concepts and it has to do with like different dimensions in time or something. Because how can you feel like you experienced something once before when you know you never have? Maybe in a different dimension you experienced it? Just like in another dimension people heard these songs? Eery.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2016 22:48:16 GMT
*recalls* Ever get that feeling of deja vu? I agree with the multi-dimensional theory, because its pretty damn interesting. Maybe there's an alternate universe where Avril was born in 1974 instead of 1984 and Girlfriend was released in 1997 instead of 2007. A universe where everything is offset by a decade. This '74/'97 alternative universe somehow managed to interact with our current '84/'07 universe. Imagine the 4 dimensions that make up our universe (X, Y, Z and Time) are a single page in a newspaper. Just as a newspaper is several 2-dimensional pages in one, the multiverse is several 4-dimensional universes in one. Each page doesn't interact with each other. They never know that other pages exist. However, something that occurs in one page may cause other pages to notice something. For example: one page has a little too much ink on it. This ink bleeds onto the other pages. Maybe the technology in the '74/'97 universe advances at an exponential rate. By the turn of the millenium they have already developed a warp drive. As you can't go faster than light, this warp drive works by warping space-time behind and in front of it (hence the term "warp drive"). This membrane of space-time somehow manages to intersect with our universe, or the warp drive emits such an enormous amount of energy (or dark energy) that it bleeds into our universe, like how a page with too much ink bleeds onto other pages. This interaction affects the 4th dimension, time, and messes with peoples memories. As a result, the memory of Avril releasing Girlfriend in 1997 overrides the memory of Avril releasing Girlfriend in 2007. Just a random thing I thought while procastinating.
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Post by Avengium on May 23, 2016 4:43:43 GMT
@t1spork is more a psychological reconstruction of the past with fiction memories. More like BogoGog24 explained. Without the N-dimensional, and without the superstrings and the warpdrives. But i loved the warp drive explanation as a reader of science fiction. I like the suggestion of the mind by scientists and illusionists. You can tell a person what to remember and what to no remember if you know how. Someone with this knowledge can be undetectable in a mugshot because the witnesses remember fiction.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2016 6:11:56 GMT
I've never heard of the Mandela effect before ( I honestly thought it had something to do with Nelson Mandela ) It kind of does. Apparently lots of people think Nelson Mandela died in prison. Geddit?
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Post by greeneyedsoul on Dec 29, 2017 16:15:56 GMT
I think I've heard Fly on a local radio station in 2004.
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