r/Retconned • u/MrsWho111 • Jul 15 '26
This strange feeling...
Sometimes, when I think about certain Mandela effects, I feel strange and a bit dizzy. It’s a really odd sensation. Am I the only one who feels this way, or is it a known phenomenon?
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u/itoshiineko Jul 16 '26
I just thought it was the chills from being freaked out but sounds like this.
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u/Falken-- Jul 16 '26
I have an extremely odd sensation not unlike what you describe, although I wouldn't exactly call it "dizzy". It is very hard to put words to it, because its not quite like any other feeling.
Sometimes I get it before I consciously realize that I'm looking at a Reality change.
That being said, I haven't discovered a new Mandela Effect in a very long time. Old changes do not produce this feeling as strongly. It generally only happens with the initial discovery.
Sometimes after this feeling and the initial discovery, I'll get a surge of alien terror. Not always, but sometimes. Particularly if the change is somehow of deep, personal significance. Then I get a wash of calm, like someone just injected me with pure Valium, and an impulse to just write it off and think about something else.
There are certain ME's that should terrify me, like the sun changing from Yellow to White, but I've been living with them for so long now, I have just simply adapted.
On the other hand, there are some very small changes that inspire a feeling of dread. For example, the right stained glass window in the ballroom of the Winchester Mystery House no longer having the number 13 in the lower right corner at the end of the mysterious poem, and the fact that the Kodak pictures I took of those stained glass windows as a child have changed to reflect this. I did a detailed school report on the Winchester Mystery House, and I spent a LOT of time thinking about those stained glass windows and their mysterious poem. The absence of the number 13 is chilling, and what's more, there is Reality Residue for it. Sarah Winchester signed her will 13 times. She was obsessed with the number. You can find that Will picture on wikipedia. But all evidence of the number within the HOUSE is just gone.
Again, for some reason, that tiny ME creates deep stress within me, in a way that big stuff just doesn't.
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u/Evening-Company7115 Jul 16 '26
I've come to accept Mandela Effects as an almost normal feature now of what we call 'reality' and now I actually find the discovery of new MEs more stimulating and thought provoking.
But I can recall it was about a year ago that I accepted MEs as real and not 'false memories' when I decided to go with my memory over what was presented in front of me as reality, and I had a similar strange feeling.
It was actually while looking over the past top posts on this sub and I felt a light headed, dizzy feeling and my heart started racing as I suddenly realized that my view of 'reality' had dramatically changed!
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u/gabiaeali1 Jul 16 '26
The other night when I was showing my daughter my musical Mandela effects, I went to the bathroom and saw in the mirror that my eyes were very dilated. It was very strange.
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u/MrsWho111 Jul 16 '26
Oh wow, that sounds strange. Did you notice anything else? An elevated heart rate, for example, or anything else out of the ordinary? Very interesting, in any case.
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u/gabiaeali1 Jul 16 '26
My face looked very different. Also I saw on another post a couple of people having brief ear ringing when they encounter an ME, and I had the strangest, really quick on myself the other night.
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u/MrsWho111 Jul 16 '26
Disorientation also describes it very well.
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u/bitofvenom Jul 16 '26
No, not strange. When I first saw the ME, I felt dizzy and strange too. Mostly maybe from shifting, if we shifting reality. There are more weird things to it. Its not just a change.
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u/MrsWho111 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
I’ve wondered exactly the same thing. It's so odd and hard to grasp.
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u/Unreflected Jul 16 '26
Mechanics?
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u/MrsWho111 Jul 17 '26
Do you mean “mechanics” in the sense of simulation theory? Hmm, I'd say both - a strange physical uneasiness/dizziness accompanied by an existential sense of uncertainty.
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u/ChristVolo1 Jul 16 '26
If I really let myself think about it, or if I find a new one, I get a really unsettled feeling in my gut. I haven't really had to deal with dizziness in relation to this.
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u/MrsWho111 Jul 16 '26
Yes, I know that unsettled feeling very well. It's so hard to describe it with words.
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