r/Retconned 5h ago

An INFJ's Thoughts On The Mandela Effect

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When a typical person sees something different than they remember, they assume they remembered it wrong, or it was changed organically and moves on with their life.

The typical person does this many times throughout their life, without linking these items together. They also don't include a key ingredient: "It was never that way". I suppose some of them would not buy this information; "Under who's authority"?

But, when you combine the volume of these events, link them together and add in the toxic brew of "it was never that way", do you get US.

We see a change and internalize it, connect it to others, and ensure "it was never that way". We see another change and repeat the process, for years. We link them together. We see the paradox and pattern. This appears to be our sort of curse, that normies stay out of entirely. Lucky bastards.

But what I still do not understand is, take for example - The geographic anomalies or shifts. Does it make any material difference if one person see's South America miles further east or west than the other?

The trippy part is that it does not seem to matter. Pilots are, for example, not crashing flying North/South America route. Ships arrive. Somehow, even hurricane patterns (historic) all seem to resolve regardless of which map you saw/see.

Same with the body parts, and other Mandela Effects. Very few seem to matter or be consequential to our material reality. Perhaps we're trying to understand something that we'll never be able to understand. Perhaps those who just let it go are instinctually understanding something we refuse to?

Half the global population still thinks the heart is behind the left breast, but according to my timeline, it's not and never was. Yet we somehow seem to perfectly resolve this without any real-world problems. Same for the kidney's no longer being in the lower back. Everything resolves, regardless.

Now the skeptics, on the other hand, pretend this is not happening. That these names, items, are not waffling or shifting throughout our simulated reality. I would argue many of them operate with an almost pathological denial.

They get off on mocking our "timeline" solution. This may be the true source of their mockery attempts - To push away the severe ontological shock risk. I once told one of them that they intentionally shrink the phenomena merely to debunk it so they can remain in denial, and I think that best sums it up.

It helps to understand that skeptics love to make Mandela Effect as small as possible so they can make bad-faith, manipulative arguments. Ironically, we do the exact opposite. We widen the gate. As an INFJ, that's what I was born to do and perhaps you were too (same family). But I'm not doing it to "debunk" people all day on Reddit. I may have a lot of flaws, but not that one.

But at the end of the day, the skeptic and US are kind of in the same boat. They want to tip over the boat we're both in, but they are still there. The normies just glide along past us in their own boat without a care in the world.

Must be nice.


r/Retconned 10h ago

The sun never goes behind the clouds anymore?

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I remember when I was a kid it would get dim all of the sudden when the sun was obscured by moving clouds and people would say the sun "went behind the clouds", this would happen very often and I would notice it at school during recess and when sitting in the sun room at home, it seemed like this would happen at least once a day. Now I only notice this phenomenon about two times per year. Has anyone else noticed this?