Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Lawn Mandela

 
The Mandela Effect is most famous for large scale changes that affect many people all over the world, such as film titles and song lyrics etc; but it also operates on a small scale, a personal level. Personal Mandelas are far more difficult to prove because they're easier to dismiss as conflation. One person can suffer from errors of memory, it's true; but it's less likely if a million people suffer the exact same error. However, more and more people are reporting these strange "errors of memory" about elements of their own lives, unique to their own lived experience, where they shouldn't happen. I've just had an example of this myself. The photo above was taken in a garden of an old lady whose lawn I regularly mow as one of my jobs. When I turned up to do it a few days ago I remarked on the new detached stone path she had laid that crossed the lawn, as you can see. She looked at me with a confused frown and answered: "What new path? That's always been there." When I examined the path more closely I saw it had obviously been installed a long time ago. The stones had settled into the soil and there were grass plants very close to it. Despite this I distinctly remember mowing that lawn many times previously and there being no path. I have been doing this job for over a year now. My experience is impossible to prove, but the fact that more and more people are reporting discrepancies like mine leads me to think something real is going on. Is it to do with CERN or the breakdown of the fabric of the universe post-2012? I don't know. There is an effect so it must have a cause. We just have not yet identified it yet.

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