Talk:Mandela effect
Add topicLatest comment: 4 years ago by Equinox
I see why you changed the def, but I wonder if there is a better phrasing than "disconnected people", which doesn't have an immediately clear meaning to me. Makes me think they are suffering anomie or something! Equinox ◑ 21:00, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
- e.g. disjoint groups of people? Equinox ◑ 21:00, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
- Good point. Basically everyone is disconnected right now! Was looking for a way to succinctly convey that Mandela-effect memories are independently shared by strangers across a wide area. Whereas with collective false memories shared by people who know each other (family/friends/etc.) you could have reinforcement. Two childhood friends reminiscing about their school days might mutually convince themselves that their kindergarten teacher was called Mr. Bigby. Whereas me and someone half a world away both independently misremember reading the Berenstein Bears books as kids because -stein is an actual suffix used in surnames and -stain is not. Or maybe because we both unwittingly slipped into this universe from a parallel dimension where it actually is spelled Berenstein. Anyway, that seemed like the defining feature of Mandela-effect memories. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 21:30, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
- "Disjointed" can also have a connotation of "irrational" or "incoherent." That could be taken to mean the false memories are a form of mass delusion (which I think they are distinct from). Hopefully "independently" does the trick. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 21:37, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
- Good point. Basically everyone is disconnected right now! Was looking for a way to succinctly convey that Mandela-effect memories are independently shared by strangers across a wide area. Whereas with collective false memories shared by people who know each other (family/friends/etc.) you could have reinforcement. Two childhood friends reminiscing about their school days might mutually convince themselves that their kindergarten teacher was called Mr. Bigby. Whereas me and someone half a world away both independently misremember reading the Berenstein Bears books as kids because -stein is an actual suffix used in surnames and -stain is not. Or maybe because we both unwittingly slipped into this universe from a parallel dimension where it actually is spelled Berenstein. Anyway, that seemed like the defining feature of Mandela-effect memories. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 21:30, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, perfect. (One of my favourite online hangouts is full of conspiracy theorists and GOOD GRIEF I am sick of hearing that Bill Gates must have caused corona because look, he was funding virus research before it all happened.) Equinox ◑ 21:50, 4 May 2020 (UTC)