I've had many. It all started about 3 and a half years ago when I was reading an article that mentioned that Billy Graham was still alive. I just couldn't get my head around that because I had very vivid memories of seeing his funeral on television news, probably about 10 years ago. Years ago, when I was in my early 20's, I watched and listened to many of his televised sermons and held him in high regard, as a "man of god"... I was very religious in those days. So, when I saw his funeral on the news, and even though I was no longer religious, I still made a mental note of it because I knew who Billy Graham was.
It was the summer of 2015 when I learned that he was still alive, (I know he died [again?] about a year ago), and since then, I've experienced many more of these so called "Mandela effects", having memories of things that seem to be different today, different than how I remember them. And they're only things that I used to know a lot about, or at least I thought I did. Things like the bible; I have a bible that I bought 35 years ago and I used to read it a lot, everyday for years, both the "old testament" as well as the "new testament". But now, when I try to read it, I see so many things that are "different", that I don't remember those things ever being written in my 35 year old bible, that it just boggles my mind.
Then there's Australia. Australia is a big one for me. Since I was a kid, I always had a fascination with maps, atlases, and globes of the world. I could spend hours looking at all the different countries in the world and their relation to where I lived at the time... in Manitoba, Canada. I hated where I lived. I hated the cold. I dreamed of living in places where it was "summer" all year long. Like Florida, or southern California, or my favorite, Australia. In my early twenties, I wanted to move to Australia. I researched what I would need to do to move there, how much money I would need and so forth. And I looked at Australia on maps and atlases many many times. I knew what Australia looked like, where it was situated in the Pacific, isolated and many miles away from any other country (except for New Zealand and Tasmania), and certainly not a just few miles from Papua New Guinea, (at least in my mind). There are many other things that I remember being different concerning geography, but Australia takes the cake for me.
At 10 years old, I used to impress my friends with my knowledge of cars. We would be walking somewhere and I would point to a car that was parked a block away. All you could make out were either the tail lights or the headlights of the car from that distance, and yet I could tell my friends what make the car was, what model it was, what year it was, and even what motor it probably had. In my late teens and early twenties, I was into the whole "muscle car" thing. I knew cars. Yet now, when I look at google images of vintage cars, cars from the 50's, 60's, and 70's, cars that I knew so well, there are several that I've never seen or heard about, and some that I remember looking quite different. I cannot understand how I could not have known about these certain cars, surely there would have been many of them on the road at the time, and I would have known about them.
And then there's drums. I've been playing drums, on and off, since I was 15. I've built my own drum kits, modified drums to try and make them sound better, experimented with drums in all sorts of ways, including acoustic and electronic drums. I know drums. I won't go into any details but let's just say that it's very similar to my experiences with the bible, geography, and cars. I have memories of theses things that I thought I knew so well, that are different today.
I am weak willed. I've "struggled" with alcoholism since my teens. I also started smoking pot, on and off, several years ago. (I've recently quit both, with great resolve to not ever go back to that again). I was never a "drunk", but I did drink everyday for years. I quit drinking completely in the spring of 2013, but after almost 2 and a half years, I started again. That was in 2015, the year that I started experiencing this "Mandela effect" thing, when I found out that Billy Graham was still alive.
So maybe, for me, that was the cause of the Mandela effect thing. While drinking and smoking weed, in those periods of disassociation, I was very vulnerable, leaving myself "open" to 4d STS manipulation, screwing with my mind, injecting false memories. Even though I realize that this is very possible, I still don't understand why, for instance, apparently many other people also have memories of Australia being in a different geographical location than what it is today.
It was just yesterday that I came across this video on you tube by a guy who calls himself "Money Bags 73". He's put out hundreds of videos about the Mandela effect. To me, he comes across as being sincere about what he thinks about the Mandela effect, but of course that doesn't really mean anything. He may be sincere, but still deceived. This particular video though (and it's short, about 4 minutes long), I find interesting. He calls it "Hear What You Want Phenomenon Sweeping The World". I find it interesting because if you can "hear" what you "want", then maybe, in the same sense, you could also "remember" what you "want" to remember.
Anyway, here it is:
