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The Berenstain Bears conspiracy.
DarthCaligula
Elite Ranger
It seems that we are all in the same generation, though there might be a couple older ones here, so I was wondering what you would all think of this: http://mandelaeffect.com/berenstein-or-berenstain-bears/
I always remembered it as Berenstein Bears, but when I was young, I incorrectly called them the Bernstein Bears, then I eventually noticed it was Berenstein and was actually upset about that.
Proof of alternate universes and timelines? I found out about this from watching the Angry Video Game Nerd's videos, wondering all the way through the video if it was just some joke he was playing for the act in the video itself.
I always remembered it as Berenstein Bears, but when I was young, I incorrectly called them the Bernstein Bears, then I eventually noticed it was Berenstein and was actually upset about that.
Proof of alternate universes and timelines? I found out about this from watching the Angry Video Game Nerd's videos, wondering all the way through the video if it was just some joke he was playing for the act in the video itself.
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Here is a good excerpt from the comments section of you link above: Jake
"You are only 18 and can remember the Berenstein books. That means whatever happened was probably within the last 12 years. My wife and I have 2 children to whom we have read the books and, watched the shows with. We are both adamant that it was The Berenstein Bears.
What the hell happened? The Hadron Collider?"
The Large Hadron Collider sent some of us into a different reality where the Berernstein Bears are the Berenstain Bears! This is obviously the most logical of answers.
One thing to remember is that the human brain isn't write-only. Remembering a thing also revises the memory. I've had a number of experiences that bear this out personally; under conscious anesthesia for a dental procedure, one of the side effects is that despite awake, you can't remember what happened while you were "under." I can remember the drugs starting to take effect, and I remember when they cleared, but the actual operation is a void— except I can remember remembering parts of the operation immediately afterward.
Likewise, after first learning about this, I had a memory I, for want of a better word, coveted. I kept myself from revisiting the event in my mind for a year or two. When I finally did, it remained fairly sharp and contained, but now that I stopped avoiding it, it's become fuzzy and smoothed-over, the details diffuse instead of immediately accessible.
I have to say, though, it's not great that a sizable number of people will, with conviction, say the entire universe must be conspiring against them rather than admit that they misremembered a detail that isn't pertinent to their lives, like a nonstandard spelling, which actor was in a genie movie, or which political prisoners died while incarcerated.
Specificly to the alternative timeline notion that is batted about, why, if we indeed we had entered an alternate timeline, would only the physical manifestations of the name change, but not our memories too? Wouldn't our memories be also altered if the said timeline was altered?
Jake
Which also brings me to Captain Disillusion's wonderful video explaining it all, and how it's not people traveling between alternate worlds or whatever stupid thing they all like to believe. I think he makes the case for why we experience these weird things pretty clear.
People really do downplay the power association and familiarity have in forming and calling upon memories. The brain isn't magic and certainly isn't capable of recording every minute detail. object association and comparative analysis are large factors in human perception. If "-stain" was a common surname suffix in the modern world, more people would be apt to remember it that way. "-stein," very similar but not quite equal, is rather common and easily mistakable to our younger selves. Given that most of us would pass over the title quickly, the brain will in gaps of perception and connect the dots, and then cement that notion by forming whatever neurological connections link those concepts.