I have been researching the simulation hypothesis for quite a while now. The Mandela effect is used by proponents like Rizwan Virk as a possible clue pointing to a “glitch” or a rerun of the sim. It’s common for many people to hold the same alternate version of an event (you probably already know this). If you are less certain, I would be interested to hear what you think might be the cause of your experience, or if you are dismissing it as nothing worth investigating.
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I’m not dismissing it, but by definition, no proof of any previous state exists. I have checked chat logs and various other sources and nothing.
While discussing this with my wife, we encountered another interesting discrepancy.
My wife and I cruise often and have been to many different places, which mostly merge together in memory.
Neither my wife or I have ever visited the party Island of Ibiza. However I remember a cruise port stop about 10 years ago where we called in on the island, but to a quiet town that had no similarity to the party capital.
A couple of years after that, we were looking at Ibiza as a destination and I mentioned that we had technically been there, my wife looked curiously at me stating that we’ve never been there. She had no recollection of the cruise port stop.
Last night, when I used that example of a difference in memory, my wife, exclaimed, but we have been there, except it was Aiya Napa. She had never mentioned that before and this is a new version of our discrepancy.
Very Interesting! While I personally haven’t experienced a Mandela effect, I have experienced other possible “glitches” that could possibly be explained by a simulation hypothesis. If you haven’t already heard of Rizwan Virk, he has a number of very approachable interviews on YT. They may or may not be helpful in any further research or analysis you might do regarding your own experiences.