The Mandela Effect

Concordance Blog contributor, Cynthia Sue Larson, has a new post on her own blog which delves into The Mandela Effect.  Here are the introductory comments in her post:

The phrase “Mandela Effect” has been trending upward at an exponential rate between July 2015
and July 2016, as seen when viewing a graph produced by Google Trends.  Part of what is fueling
the rapid increase in discussion about this phenomena is that some of the reporters writing articles
about the Mandela Effect are experiencing it, too.  One reporter noticed that an oft-remembered
cheesy love sequence between two characters in the James Bond movie, Moonraker, no longer exists–
despite his recollection (and mine) that “Dolly has braces”!

While many are surprised by the recent surge of interest in the “Mandela Effect,” those of us who
have been researching and writing about this phenomenon of reality shifts and alternate histories
have long been anticipating just such a rise of interest.  The “Mandela Effect” is named after South
African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, who became a topic of interest in the year
2010 by people noticing with surprise that he was alive at that time–since many people remembered
him having died while incarcerated.  I had published similar accounts of the dead being observed alive
again in my 1999 book, Reality Shifts, and reporting first-hand accounts on the RealityShifters website
from people all around the world noticing many dead people alive again.  Observations of dead people
alive again are just one of many types of Mandela Effects, with other notable examples including
changes to song lyrics, movie dialogue, movie scenes, physical geography, physiological anatomy,
and product names.

I wholeheartedly urge you to read this extensive piece at RealityShifters Blog in its entirety.  It’s really quite interesting and most worthwhile.  What do you think?  Have you experienced the “Mandela Effect.”  Let us know.

Johnny