Okay, I know everyone says the Mandela Effect is just bad memory, but my experience three years ago in Phoenix makes me question that.

I was at a gas station off the I-10, waiting in line behind a guy wearing a very specific shirt with a cartoon logo. I remember it clearly because we chatted about the heat. Last week, I saw the same guy at a grocery store, wearing the exact same shirt, and mentioned our last meeting. He looked at me like I was crazy and said he'd never been to that gas station and had only owned the shirt for a month. The timeline and details are too solid in my head for it to be a simple mix-up. Has anyone else had a person-based glitch like this, where someone's personal history seems to reset?

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victor_carr253mo ago

Man, our brains are just really good at making up stories to fill gaps. You probably saw a different guy with a similar shirt and your memory glued it all together.

hugo_nelson1mo ago

Maybe memory glitches aren't just glitches. There's a ton of research out there showing our brains actually store way more than we think (like, we just can't always access it). You ever have that feeling where a detail comes back to you hours later and perfectly matches someone else's story?

gracea193mo ago

I read a study where people mix up faces all the time, it's wild.

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