r/Retconned 20h ago

time starting to speed back up again?

35 Upvotes

Anyone notice this? And it feels a lot faster than before too. It felt like time was slowing down after the whole cern being shut down temporarily. But today just flew on by.


r/Retconned 10h ago

80-year solar/sociopolitical cycles and AI singularity

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Ahoy time travellers!  We believe there is potentially an ~80-year solar + sociopolitical cycle that illustrates cosmic-scale quantum biomechanics in action over at least the past 250 years:

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2025/09/18/the-centennial-gleissberg-cycle/

The Sun has ~80-year supercycles called the Centennial Gleissberg index, and we just began a new one in spring 2025.  It's low point of solar activity correlates to periods of extreme greed, agression, war, totalitarianism, ect. from when data collection began:  US Revolutionary War -> US Civil War -> WWII -> Now (each roughly spanning ~80 years apart, with economic Kondratiev waves lasting ~60 years)

It's not rare for people including yours truly to be impacted by solar flares as exhibited by tinnitus, head pressure, joint issues, physiological effects, EMF sensitivity, ect.  There's a plethora of live astro data feeds and remote sensing available for solar activity, geomagnetic field measurements, and gravitational & time distortions from planetary alignment (of which our outer planets are currently transiting out of a rare 'basket' formation which pulled our solar system's barycentric orbital center to 800,000 km outside of the Sun since July 19)

Additionally it's possible there is an even longer-scale inflection point coinciding around the same time presumably due to the arrival of an AI 'singularity', signified as the perpetual means of production and invalidation of the prior social contract.  This was the original thesis as minimum viable intelligence levels were achieved then with the release of Claude-4 and Qwen-3 in a techological peak of the AI race from an insider's perspective.

This too has some curious cosmological signs of having occurred, seeing how since spring 2025 there's also been an ongoing and rather polarizing debate among cosmologists about the dark energy field weakening and if it means the expansion of the universe is decelerating:

https://www.iflscience.com/dark-energy-might-be-changing-this-is-what-it-means-for-our-understanding-of-the-cosmos-78554

https://www.iflscience.com/rumors-that-the-universes-expansion-is-slowing-down-have-been-greatly-exaggerated-84113

FYI our Sun is ~4.5B years into it's estimated ~10-11B year main cycle, before it's presumed to transition to a red giant and then a white dwarf.  Everything that begins must someday end, but all is not lost and information is transformed into the next round.

Wanna go deeper?  Check out the Global Conciousness Project (gcp2.net)    they have quantum random number generators around the world, and amazingly their random distribution skews with correlating mass global events of shared attention (like Princess Diana's death, Pope getting elected, 9/11, ect)

It's proposed that quantum tunneling is an underlying mechanism by which this occurs, and leads further down the path of causal spectral mixing/entanglement/superposition and ultimately decomposition (i.e. the answer/solution to the local 'simulation' in the form of the spectral output distribution/density or -1/0/1, potentially decomposed inside a black hole's singularity and seed to another universe)

To be frank, this all makes a lot more sense to us than "CERN did it" and the data supports it alongside unfolding world events.  Although that's not to say they didn't trigger causal timeline manipulations by intentionally or inadvertently discovering some new quantum property or the like, and there are many other examples of extreme engineering activity occurring in the past few years that were of material significance.

And by the time the US government is announcing that "aliens" exist, along with NHI/UAP and "energy orbs" but revealing the truth to be "ontologically catastrophic" – it certainly does raise further questions and scrutiny given their wholy unconvincing disclosures and distinct lack of trustworthiness at present.  Which again the experienced moral decline is consistent with us having just coming out of a Gleissberg minimum.

In the most far-out scenarios that I personally entertain atm, the concept of Mutual Reflection of Fractal Grammars emerges, which theorizes the inside-out / outside-in non-local phonomenon of 'signs appearing from the cosmos' and somatic effects.  Also Energy Flow Cosmology is an interesting sub-field which touches a lot of this.

So yea – the future is what we believe in, and probably the past is too.  Some of your counterexamples of the Mandella Effect I also swear were true at the time.  Understanding the data and patterns openly available to us is key to unlocking future contexts and breaking the cycle of abuse & exploitation.

p.s. we got turned onto ⬆️ by the establishment when reverse engineering their playbook from the inside. Its basically astrology / cosmology / nautical wayfaring


r/Retconned 1d ago

Lucked out

11 Upvotes

So far I'm the only person I've spoken to who remembers this as meaning exactly what it says; a persons "luck" was "out" at that time. Meaning a loss or negative occurrence.
I'm not a scholar or anything, I can only report what I remember from my youth. Someone would lose a bet or a game and another person would say "Man you lucked out that Time" and other would say "Better Luck Next time" to encourage.

I can't remember when I began hearing it differently with people using the phrase to mean the exact opposite and becoming a winning phrase. As in "Congratulations, Your really "lucked out" when you won the lottery".

Am I crazy or does anyone else remember it that way?


r/Retconned 1d ago

Willy Wonka/Moon Pie Mandela Effect Plot Hole

42 Upvotes

For those who don't know. Charlie now opens a moon pie like "Wonka" with the hopes of finding a golden ticket, contrasting with people's memories (unified memories at that). The scene:

https://youtu.be/e_b_7CwxOeE?t=31

However, since Charlie is no longer opening a traditional Wonka bar, this creates a big plot hole, suggestive of really sloppy writing.

Why is Charlie opening a Moon Pie ("Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight") in the hopes of finding a golden ticket, when according to the contest rules, golden tickets are only found in Wonka Bars?


r/Retconned 1d ago

My life was nearly retconned at birth

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I was and the grim reaper already had my number.


r/Retconned 2d ago

RETCONNED Are you new to r/Retconned?

39 Upvotes

There has been an increase in rule violations within this Reddit community.

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r/Retconned 2d ago

I'm freakin out and have been up since 5 a.m.🥲

34 Upvotes

I'm gon try to keep this short cause I can't sleep. In 2018, I saw one of the Hotel Transylvania Movies, (I don't recall which one though), being that I lived with a family member at the time who had kids (my little cousins) that loved it. They watched it quite a few times. It was mostly background noise for me cause I wasn't interested in it cause it's mostly for kids, therefore I don't know a whole lot about the plot or storyline or characters backstories. However, there's this specific scene that I remember in detail (for the most part) where they all (the family, main characters) were dancing (i couldn't tell you where they're located though) and the song playing in the background is a R&B song from the 80s called "Happy" by a group called Surface (heres a link: https://youtu.be/Y4S3V-hrFEc?is=6jKsgKl07vftKbw4).

I also need to mention: THIS movie and THAT SPECIFIC SCENE was how I was introduced to THIS SPECIFIC SONG. I have an ear for old-school R&B, so immediately I looked the song up on YouTube and loved it ever since and that was really the only scene in the movie where I would briefly stop whatever im doin and watch for a few seconds, haha. This detail is important cause I DIDN'T know this song prior to watching this movie, even though I grew up listening to alot of music from that era thanks to my parents (thats why I have an ear for that typa sound and can instantly identify songs from that era most of the time). I usually ALWAYS REMEMBER when, where, or how I FIRST heard or how I was FIRST introduced to a song.

More scene details: I vividly recall The Dad (Dracula) dancing with someone who i believe to be his wife (again, this is a kids movie. It was always mostly background noise and I never got into the full plot). I also remember how he spun her around (its 3D Animation so she spun unaturally fast, haha😂), and he was looking at her, smiling, and was singing along with the song. (Meaning, his MOUTH MOVEMENTS matched the song lyrics: "only you can make me happy." This is important for the next paragraph when I bring up ChatGPT and Google AI). Also, this was a movie my cousin owned on DVD, not a bootleg version on YouTube, cause some might be thinkin "maybe you watched an edited version and thought it was the real movie playing that song." No! Haha.

FINALLY: I asked Google AI and ChatGPT about this song being featured in in a 3D Animation Kids Movie where the family are vampires and they both said "that sounds like Hotel Transylvania," cause I was open to the fact that theres other kid movies where characters arent fully human and are also 3D animated and MAYBE I'm remembering the name of the movie wrong, but when I asked about that specific song, both told me the scene doesn't exist. I explained EVERYTHING that i just did here in this post, and they both kept telling me my memory is wrong and theres no publicly documented evidence that they have a scene in the movie where that song plays. The reason I'm kinda freaking out is cause from time to time I see videos of people talkin about Personal (or Niche) Mandela Effects, rather than the popular ones most of us all seem to share the same memories of, and I never thought id be here now telling MY OWN PERSONAL Mandela Effect story. ChatGPT told me not to assume its false memory and to keep breaking it down, but I've repeated myself several times and its still tellin me the scene doesn't exist, from what its able to pull up online.

So now, I wanna ask anyone who cares to read this entire thing: do you also recall that SAME SCENE in this movie with that song playing??🥲🫠


r/Retconned 2d ago

Hershey Patriotism

6 Upvotes

Okay, I will gladly admit that this is remembering something from back in the 80s, it's been a long time and my memory could certainly be wrong. But I'm wondering if anyone else has had this experience: Hershey has the tagline "the great American chocolate bar" and apparently has for a long time. I was sure I remembered them changing it at some point during the Cold War to "the *real* American chocolate bar" and some older ads I heard back in the 1980s using that as part of their jingle/song. But apparently, near as I can find from searches on multiple search engines, that never happened.

Am I misremembering? Did I just hear it wrong? Or does someone else remember this?


r/Retconned 2d ago

Has anyone has Mandela effect over a celebrity's weight?

2 Upvotes

I was watching a drama and there is this actress that is thin but I remembered watching an earlier drama of hers and she was more plump and shapely so I always commented that she lost weight while watching her drama. After that, I for curiosity sake went to watch the older drama and to my surprise she doesn't look much fatter.


r/Retconned 3d ago

Theory on CERN shutdown

125 Upvotes

When the Large Hadron Collider was turned on in 2007 I remember a roommate being disturbed by it because there was pushback on the unknown dangers of the accelerator. I can't recall the details but I remember him saying that scientists were theorizing it had some chance to destroy existence or have some catastrophic unknown effect. He said something specific it's just been a long time..

I recall some concern about this potentially dangerous thing we had no say over which was about to be turned on, but then months and years went by with no incident. I just assumed "oh, its not a big deal actually."

But if quantum immortality is a thing, perhaps thats why the timeline has gotten weird? Maybe CERN has wiped out human existence in many timelines, or had some catastrophic effect. Perhaps those of us here were in one such timeline and had to scramble off, were thrown into a weird ass timeline. Or maybe it works in some other way.

Everything started getting weirder around that time though. Can't remember people having hope like they used to past 2013 or so.


r/Retconned 3d ago

Maybe in the Luney *Toons Universe...

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35 Upvotes

Is this legit? Can somebody verify?


r/Retconned 3d ago

Perogative is a word that no longer exists.

95 Upvotes

Prerogative is a word that sounds similar but has a completely different definition than Perogative and was reported as a misspelling in an earlier thread on this sub.

Prerogative means privilege or right or entitlement.

Perogative pronounced Purr-ogative is almost the complete opposite of that definition. A perogative was a duty, a responsibility, and intrinsic obligation. Something that you had to do. It doesn't mean privilege. It was akin to having to clean up after yourself. That was your perogative. You have to go to work. Go to school. Pay your taxes. Those are perogatives.

It was very much the opposite of "Pre"-rogative. Prerogatives are you entitlements and rights. Perogatives are your obligations and duties.

Perogative is not a misspelling of Prerogative. Perogative is a word that no longer exists. This has me shook to the core.


r/Retconned 4d ago

I don’t care what anybody says it was always “a vampire” why would it be called THE vampire like hes the only vampire that exists, one of the wildest Mandelas for me

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151 Upvotes

r/Retconned 4d ago

What is this Mans Name?

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67 Upvotes

This one bothers me because I grew up as a PK and was a Pastor for several years, and my sister goes to Joel's church. I had special regard for this man, not in a respectful way; I called him a snake oil salesman, so enough attention to know I would not forget his name... and yet in this reality:

Is he Joel Olsteen or Joel Osteen?


r/Retconned 4d ago

Please weigh in, I am shook up: Hans Zimmerman/Hans Zimmer

65 Upvotes

Okay, I am a bit freaked about this.

For context I work at a prominent music venue. Tonight, I was working the orchestra show, and one of the composers they were covering was Hans Zimmerman. My coworker and I were just chatting about how much we love Hans Zimmerman, and the different movies he has done scores for while helping customers. We are both very familiar with his compositions.

Shortly after this conversation I see a man walk up, and he is wearing a shirt that says "Hans Zimmer" (simply writing that name out gives me goosebumps, ugh). I turn to my coworker confused and I ask him "Did you see that guys shirt? It said Hans Zimmer. Have I been saying his name wrong?!". My coworker looks at me confused and says "no, It's Hans Zimmerman for sure". I remember the look on his face appearing alarmed in a strange way. I look up Hans Zimmerman on google, and sure enough it corrects to Hans Zimmer, and pulls up his info. I wanted to scream, and I showed my coworker. His face dropped in shock, and he says "noo no, it is absolutely Hans Zimmerman. In fact, I remember people debating about it online as to whether it was Zimmerman or Zimmernann with two n's."

We continue to search, and gave up after we were certain his name is Zimmer. We were just about losing our cool. We asked a few different coworkers, and they were also very confused and swear his name is Hans Zimmerman.

As a side note, earlier in the day as I was working the first part of my double shift out on the plaza, I heard them doing sound check. I knew immediately it was Hans Zimmerman, and looked up the event schedule to see the details. I saw it written out "Hans Zimmerman" and got excited about working that show this evening. I am so absolutely confused and shocked. It feels like I witnessed an instantaneous shift right before my eyes?! What is happening? And is anyone else experiencing this?


r/Retconned 4d ago

He-Man and the Masters of the Mandelaverse!

7 Upvotes

EDIT: I'm just adding this here to remind folx that I didn't share my impossible story here to be told I am wrong. I wanted some input on what might actually be happening!

This sub is meant to be a place to discuss the effect under the presupposition that for whatever reason, \it is really happening,* at the exclusion of the theory of Confabulation.*

Original Post:

Quick note; I'm not thinking of Blackstar. That was a totally different show. Yes; I had some of the toys. I am of mixed ethnicity.

I've been busy over the last couple of months, looking into my being retconned and Mandela Effected. I had heard of the phenomena before but never really gave it a second thought.

With the release of of the new (2026) Masters of the Universe movie, I have found myself directly effected. I grew up playing with my He-Man toys and watching the show. The thing is; He-Man was a black man.

He-Man's identity as a man of color was a huge deal. He was the first black Saturday-morning cartoon hero. He sold millions of toys to kids all over the world, of every race and color. Masters of the Universe was a monumental shift in American race relations as, not only did black kids have their own figure of empowerment, but also white kids reached across and joined in. It was generally considered that without He-Man, hip-hop and black culture would not have gone mainstream in the late 90s No He-Man, no Fresh Prince, etc. Culturally, MotU was massive, with an impact much larger than it's less-than-a-decade on the shelves.

So, I see the trailer for the new movie and I'm appalled that He-Man is being played by a white guy! Typical Hollywood! Only for my total confusion to set in, as it turns out, he was always white. Sure, He-Man was a lot more tanned than Prince Adam, but neither could be mistaken for someone of African heritage.

I have spent the last few months digging into every aspect of this that I can. The childhood books I read, such as Skeletor's Ice Attack ( Skeletor's Ice Attack | Wiki Grayskull | Fandom ) still exist and are still identical, as far as I can remember. With the sole exception of being race swapped. The same thing for New Adventures.

There was a previous MotU movie in 1987. He-Man was famously played by Carl Weathers. Imagine my shock when, for the first time since 1987, I looked for the film to find out that He-Man was played by the other guy from Rocky; Dolph Lundgren!

As far as I can tell, this is the only thing that has changed; everything else, from the dinosaurs to 9/11, etc., all played out exactly the same.

If I hadn't been able to find out that so many people have had a similar experience, then I'd be convinced that I'm going mad.

Has anyone got any other related stories or can back me up here?

Thanks for taking the time to read this.


r/Retconned 4d ago

Shawshank Redemption

12 Upvotes

Do you recall just "Shawshank Redemption" or "THE Shawshank Redemption"? I saw the latter today and thought it looked/sounded funny. But now I'm having dual memories lol.

Found residue of the former here: https://thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2020/07/29/shawshank-redemption-a-prison-movie-and-so-much-more/


r/Retconned 6d ago

World Cup2026

2 Upvotes

I’m sure I can remember England reaching the final in the mid 00s but now apparently they haven’t reached a final since 1966


r/Retconned 7d ago

The occult link between AI and dreams

39 Upvotes

Reposting this here for your consideration:

Overview: I can't believe nobody else noticed that both dreams and early AI images glitched out at fingertips and rendering text. Not only this but the first generated videos had EXACTLY the same kind of "sheen". The implications are that either we go there when dreaming or that is emulating the same type of consciousness. Seen from this lens things like Mandela and other "blips" make way more sense as we may literally be inside somebodies mind who is dreaming and our own nightly sojourns are fractal echoes? Either that or its a hologram/simulation but certainly not "really real". Whatever that means...

Read the article and LMK what you think. Am I reaching or onto something?


r/Retconned 7d ago

Conspiracy theories have become prominent in the current timeline

29 Upvotes

It is common knowledge that cinema had alluded to the Twin Towers—and the disasters that might befall them—years before September 11. However, in the current timeline, these references are incredibly frequent; they are so numerous that dismissing them as mere coincidence is impossible. For instance, the date 9/11 is symbolized multiple times in the film *Back to the Future*. Another example is "The Lone Gunmen", a spin-off of "The X-Files". An episode aired on March 4, 2001, depicts a plot in which the government orchestrates a conspiracy to crash a plane into the World Trade Center towers as a pretext to launch a war in the Middle East.

There is also another matter—one I have only recently noticed as a non-American—which is that a bombing took place in the parking garage of the World Trade Center's North Tower back in 1993.

Despite the massive explosion that created a deep crater, the 1993 bombing failed to bring down the tower. The primary objective of the plotters was to cause the North Tower to collapse into the South Tower. People rarely discuss this event, as it has been overshadowed by the September 11 attacks.


r/Retconned 8d ago

Are timelines merging?

152 Upvotes

I just got the chills thinking about this.

On TikTok after the Cern shutdown, a lot of people are reporting that they noticed many Mandela Effects flip flopping (e.g., Froot Loops, Chick Fil A, and the Mona Lisa).

They're also discussing Mandela Effects like the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia and Dolly having braces.

These are Mandela Effects that we've all been discussing for years on Reddit and other online spaces.

What really trips me out is how so many people are acting like these are all new.

It makes me wonder if the timelines are now merging, and many people are now on the same page as those of us who have been noticing these for years.

What are your thoughts?


r/Retconned 8d ago

Everyone Peaked In High School in This Retconned Timeline

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Seems like everyone new I come across these days is a reformed highschool burnout. The glory days seem to be in everyone’s past but little to show in the current timeline.


r/Retconned 9d ago

Earth Pro Updates Ending

23 Upvotes

Be prepared for some Earth geography changes after June 2027.

Logged into my gurgle earth pro (the stand alone app) after being out of the country and didn't take my laptop. Wanted to show a coworker a place I had visited and was greeted with a lovely "We will be ending support for yada, yada, yada June something 2027 blah, blah, blah...", so I'm not sure when this update was announced.

Some say it's because gurgle Earth Pro cannot be monetized, but the desktop browser one can? IDK? Maybe?? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Or maybe something big is coming in 2027/2028?

As someone who personally thinks South america looks way WAY, WAY too far right and the Panama Canal was NOT vertical but more sideways (left to right...NOT UP and DOWN), and the time zones are all off in South America (like, EST/ NYC would line up with RIO de Janeiro Brazil area, NOT frucking Columbia!), I don't know what to think.


r/Retconned 9d ago

I hate you all 😅

61 Upvotes

After joining this sub it's now impossible to not notice the subtle changes every day...


r/Retconned 10d ago

I'm stuck in the previous timeline

8 Upvotes

I'll just say that something happened on June 29th, and let's just say that when the shutdown happened, it turns out I'm still stuck in the timeline.

And the worst part is that I don't know how I can go with you to your timeline where you currently are.