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I received brand new books I'd already read
Liliana
France

I really enjoyed the Philip K Dick podcast; I remember he was my favorite scifi writer in the seventies, so different from anybody else, and now I know why he resonated to me so much! Now I had an experience a few weeks ago that I can't quite place. I live in rural France, so English books are difficult to come by, but my daughter usually sends books after she reads them. She sent two books; I started reading one, and noticed straight away that I had read it already. I rung my daughter to tell her that, and she said impossible as they were brand new just published. Then I started the second one and the same thing happened. Here in France every village provides a bookcase by the village hall for people to deposit their read books, free of charge, and I put the books there, and they were snapped up by some lucky person—so sorry I cant recall the titles. I can't ask my daughter, as she would like to know why; she already thinks I am as mad as a box of frogs! Is that a Mandela Effect or a reality shift? I'm a bit mystified, eek, help! I had many things going on, like a jade Buddha turning up on my bedroom windowsill, then disappearing a few months later; crystals materializing and then gone a bit later, and so on. Its all fun and games, but thanks to you I don't feel freaky anymore! So thank you for all your wonderful work! Keep shining your light—sending much love.

P.S.— This book thing is getting weirder! I zoomed with my daughter this weekend, and asked her to tell me the book titles of the books that she sent me at the end of June. She said that she had not sent me any books in June. We then carried on talking about other things. Straight after, I went to my garage to see if the box that the books came in was still there, and it was! Postmarked in June. The date was smudged, but June was clearly visible. So what is happening here? She certainly sent the books, but on what timeline? My head hurts, any explaination? Everything else seems to be ok. I thank you very much for doing what you do; it helps and normalizes what is happening more and more. Sending love and light, keep shining your beautiful light.
Note from Cynthia: Thanks so much for sharing your experience receiving brand new books that you'd already read. How intriguing! And is difficult as it may be to accept, these things sometimes do happen, and yes, it sounds like a reality shift, aka personal Mandela Effect to me. I've just this past week noted that somehow my memories of watching my favorite TV show when a UC Berkeley physics student back in 1981 and 1982 are impossible--because the "Thinking Allowed" TV show apparently began in 1987, five years later! This is mind-boggling to me, since in 1987 and after that I had no free afternoons to watch daytime TV.

P.S.— Yes, it seems that you and your daughter are clearly experiencing at least a couple of different timelines. I'm glad that you were able to find the box that your daughter sent the books in, even though your daughter has no recollection that she sent them to you. Fascinating! Reality shifts and the Mandela Effect provide us with direct evidence that we aren't all experiencing exactly the same physical reality, and some experiments in quantum physics provide laboratory evidence that there is some kind of mechanism by which two observers at the same place and same time can (and sometimes do) witness completely different realities.

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My beloved Aunt Mary has now always been my godmother
Gloria
St. Albans, Vermont, USA

I have another reality blip to tell you about. All my life I had wanted to have my Aunt Mary, who always comforted me, for my Godmother. Not that I didn't love my Aunt Jo, who was my Godmother. I just had felt this bond to Aunt Mary, and it seemed natural. Aunt Jo died when she was young, but she was a beautiful being inside and out. I have been scanning photos from my parents photo collection. I find pictures of my Christening. My Uncle is there, and so is my Aunt MARY! What? She was my Godmother? Now why do I remember having those thoughts? Now I'm going to go through some things I saved to see if I find a birthday card "For my Goddaughter" from either one of them. Then I thought, if this was a timeline shift, I won't find anything from Aunt Jo but I will find one from Aunt Mary! This reality shifting is pretty cool, but it shocks me!

Note from Cynthia: Thanks for sharing this experience discovering that your beloved Aunt Mary now is, and apparently has always been, your Godmother, just as you've long wished for! How amazing that you found photographs of your Christening, and there she was! Yes, this is pretty cool--and indeed, also rather shocking when something hits so close to home like this. I feel a sense of reverence with this shift, which truly feels miraculous to me.

Name of Illinois town changed three times
Rachael
Wheatland, Iowa, USA

I am writing to tell you of an interesting Mandela effect that happened to me recently where the name of a town changed spelling three times! Last month my husband and I were driving home from a weekend ATV trip in southern Wisconsin back to eastern Iowa. On our route home we drove through Thomsen, Illinois, a town nestled on the banks of the Mississippi River. I looked at the sign and the water tower upon approaching the town and noticed that it was spelled incorrectly. The sign read Thompson, Illinois. and the water tower had Thompson painted on it in very neat large letters. I told my husband that I was experiencing a Mandela effect because my memory of the spelling from when we camped there years before was Thomsen, Illinois. My husband said in his memory it was always spelled that way (Thompson) and I must be mistaken. Fast forward to two weeks later....I am talking with my sister on the phone and mentioned how the spelling of Thomsen was now Thompson. She was in disbelief because her family has camped with us there a few times and she swore that the spelling was Thomsen. My sister said she was sure of the spelling because she had to book the campsite online and write the check out to the Thomsen campground upon arrival. She also said she found the spelling of Thomsen to be important since she had a neighbor with the last name of Thompson and the spelling of the town was different and she remembered that. Since my sister couldn't believe that the spelling had changed to Thompson I told her I would look it up on Google Maps, screenshot it and prove to her that the spelling had in fact changed. Well, when I looked up Thompson, Illinois on the map the spelling of the town had changed again! Now it was spelled Thomson with no letter p in it! This was so bizarre and mind blowing to me. It almost made me want to cry because it can be really disturbing when reality changes like that and you question what is real. When my husband came home that evening I told him that Thompson, Illinois was now spelled Thomson. He was not in the least bit fazed by this. I asked him if he remembered the sign being spelled Thompson a few weeks ago when we drove through the town. He said doesn't remember and it obviously is spelled right if it's on Google Maps. I would also like to note that I have been having a lot of deja vu experiences as well. I would love the hear your thoughts on this, Cynthia, and if you think the deja vu experience could be related to the Mandela Effect phenomenon as well?

Note from Cynthia: Thanks so much for sharing your experience witnessing the name of the town, Thomsen, Illinois change to Thompson, and then to Thomson without any letter "p." How surprising to witness these changes, and I know what you mean about how distressing something like this can be when you are just hoping to find out what the correct name and spelling are. I'm glad you were able to verify that your sister shares your memory of this town originally having been "Thomsen" back when you'd camp there. With regard to deja vu--yes, I've been having a lot of that recently! We just had our IMEC monthly livestream on YouTube today, and during the show I was certain that we'd already covered a topic of rainbow marshes or swamps before. Chris Anatra looked to see if that was true, and was unable to find any trace of it--and I also was unable to find any previous record that we'd ever shared such a thing on one of our monthly livestreams before. Yet at the same time, it was so familiar to me that I was absolutely certain we must have. I spent a fair bit of time attempting to locate some trace of it, to no avail. It seems likely that increases in deja vu occur when we we are consciously and subconsciously encountering a high number of adjacent possible timelines / realities. And this does seem to be happening much more frequently.

More Small Changes
Steven
Mesquite, Texas, USA

Here are some new listings you can check out. :)

63. I found that your Monopoly man has no monocle in this universe. In my parallel universe, there is still a Monopoly man with a monocle. A small difference. Every time I jumped after my first parallel universe and every universe until your Monopoly man with no monocle in your universe. The Monopoly man with the game type you had seen. Go check some information on the internet somewhere and they will tell you that few or some people said this.

64. When the "classic" Batman on TV ends the show each time, there is a "green" Batman light. Somewhere in the parallel universe before this universe, there was a "yellow" Batman light.

65. The high school physical education teacher as my high school bus driver has the last name Harvey in my original parallel universe where I came from. Some parallel universes have his last name Harvey until this universe his last name is Hervey. You noticed a little different spelling of his last name. Harvey and Hervey.

More to come later....

Note from Cynthia: I also remember seeing a yellow colored Batman light at the end of the original Batman TV show---so it's now always been green? That's interesting! I wonder if many other people also remember this one, since it involves a beloved TV show that lots of people likely have strong feelings and memories of. Another TV show Mandela Effect that grabs my attention is the one involving how so many of us--myself included--remember that at the beginning of the "Wonderful World of Disney" intro art before the weekly special weekend show began, an animated Tinkerbell would fly up in front of the Disney castle and up in front where the word "Disney" was written, and she'd use her magic wand with a delightful flourish to dot the letter "i" in Disney. So many of us have warm memories of this--which is strange, since this Tinkerbell intro never happened. And I wonder how that can be possible, since I loved that part of the introduction, and remember having seen it many times in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Reality Shifts and Memory Floods
Steve
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Part I:
Late in May 2019 I was driving and listening to one of Spotify's weekly "Just For You" playlists - it examines what you've been listening to, what you've favorited, and creates ad hoc playlists mixing a portion of those with a portion of songs that are similar but that you haven't listened to. Listening to this playlist I heard a song "No Tomorrows" by The Firebirds. I was really impressed with it so looked up the band in Spotify, listened to the entire album a couple times, added the album to my favorites and general playlist, and also did a general internet search to read more about the band. What I found was interesting and entertaining to me - it was a mystery album; a group of unknown studio musicians were assembled and apparently told to record whatever they wanted to, because the record company was going to release the album as "Light My Fire" with one of the songs titled "Light My Fire" because the Doors were at the top of the charts with a song of that name at that moment. It was a rip-off album, the hope being that people would mistakenly purchase it on title alone. Even the song "Light My Fire" wasn't a cover of the Doors tune - because that would involve having to pay royalties - it was a grungy feedback instrumental bearing no relation to its namesake. There is no copyright protection for titles, so some shady record companies routinely did this kind of thing. After time, this record apparently got some recognition from psyche/fuzz aficionados and it got rereleased on cd. Saturday, June 1st, I have a car for the day and my partner and I are driving about. "No Tomorrows" pops up on the playlist and I tell her the fun facts about the band/album - unknown studio musicians free to record anything they wanted, only did one album, named "Light My Fire" but no relation to the Doors song... Saturday, June 8. Exactly one week later. I have Spotify playing my playlist on random while I am making breakfast. A song comes on that I don't recognize - a cover of "Light My Fire". Confused, I check to see who the artist is. The song is called "Warm Up" by The Firebirds. There was unconditionally NO "Light My Fire" cover on the "Light My Fire" album just one week earlier. I did a quick internet search. The reviews that I read just over a week ago had all changed - the reviews were not prompted by a rerelease on cd of "Light My Fire" by The Firebirds, but now by a rerelease of 2 records on cd, a compilation of "Light My Fire" by The Firebirds and "Hair" by The 31 Flavors - 2 albums apparently by the same group of session musicians under 2 different band names. One of the tracks on Hair is a continuation of the same jam session track on Light My Fire. Almost every article I found appears prompted by the release of the 2-record set, so I could not have somehow missed that there was a 2nd album by the same band.

In summation:
1. "Anonymous band did only one album, called 'Light My Fire' but bearing no connection to any Doors tunes except by title" changed to "anonymous band did 2 albums, including a cover of Doors tune on album 'Light My Fire'".
2. First awareness of band came to me serendipitously, then within a week it again came up coincidentally in a context in which I had a witness to whom I would recount what I "knew" about the band. Exactly one week later, again in presence of that same witness, alternative version of band/song again comes up coincidentally. (To put the probability in perspective, the personal playlist which this album is on is over 2000+ songs)
I have had other albums change significantly and similarly over the last year - Link Wray's self-titled album from 1971 is another example.

Part II
Recently going scanning through some old diaries, I encountered this entry from 2002:
****begin diary excerpt****

6 Feb. 2002: Hmmm. I seem to be missing a journal. On one hand, one journal dies off within a couple pages (1 Sep – 2 Sep 01) and the next (24 Dec 01 – 16 Jan 02) implies restarting after a period of silence. On the other hand, I seem to specifically remember recording items from my 31 Oct trip... Shaving my head on arrival, books I picked up, some computer work, searching for a VCR and the woman from whom we asked directions telling a long story of the problems she once had with a VCR… Am I experiencing some kind of “reality glitch”? I remember recording these ... of listing finding Nerval’s Poesies and Manifestos of Surrealism and Maldoror, etc. But I also note 24 Dec 01 “One disappointing thing about my diaries – whole periods were not documented – and they are probably the periods of greater interest.” What’s going on?

There are other reality glitches in my journals. 28 Sep 94: Was thoroughly familiar with Psychic TV’s CD Pagan Day, played it often. On this day I discover it has 14 tracks, not 12. 14 Jan 95: “Watched Repo Man ... Maybe I'm going nuts but this is like the 10th time I've seen this movie (at least) and I've just realized that there's a dialogue in the middle that comedically talks about UFOs as time machines and the ending, in which the same character flies off in the Malibu/UFO makes cinematic references to 2001 A Space Odyssey - the lights over the windshield/Otto's face are the lights over Dave Boorman's face-shield in 2001, the spray of stars (star tunnel) and the closing clip is from Thus Sprach Zarathustra." Now, these are pretty minor occurrences - but - both were preceded a couple weeks previous by "memory floods". 28 Sept '94 was preceded on 17 Sept 94 by "forgot to mention, the neglect of the diary spurned an intense episode. Woke one morning and lay transfixed for an hour. Many previously lost memories came pouring through my head unbidden." The glitch of 14 Jan '95 was preceded on 7 Jan '94 with "Spent night lying there - unable to distinguish between sleeping/dreaming and lying there awake in reverie. Most of night spent in endless flood of memories, most not thought of since the original experiences." There was another "memory flood" event on 7 May '95 but no "glitch" reported afterward. That one happened when I was camped out alone in the woods for the night. When I got out of the woods the next day I discovered that that night "there was a province-wide power outage at 10:37 pm when a power line from NB to NS let go. Residents of Dover (south of Moncton) reported a 'ball of fire' in the sky." A fantastic hypothesis about the flood/glitch pattern is that one could shift from one alternative “reality” or timeline to another. In the process, things must be adjusted in memory to synch it with the new space/time. If one is aware during the process, it is experienced as an involuntary memory flood. If it's not perfectly in synch, you experience glitches afterward - things proving to be different than you remember them. Anyway, each event was noted then forgotten when I experienced them. It was only in going through the journals last night that the pattern emerged. Rosemary Sullivan, in the intro to Shadow Maker, wrote “To write a biography, then, is to write a metaphysical detective work: looking for the clues to a life.” (p.xv) You wouldn’t think that would apply to autobiography.

****end diary excerpt****

I have had some more spectacular reality shift experiences, but what I find interesting about these is the repeated theme of songs changing on albums and the realization (which I had forgotten) from 20+ years ago that I'd experienced "memory floods" in the week prior to two of the experiences.

Note from Cynthia: Thanks so much for sharing your experience with the synchronicity as well as the changes involving The Firebirds. That's amazing that suddenly there appeared a whole new album featuring a new name, the 31 Flavors, and a new cover of "Light My Fire." I'm constantly amazed by these kinds of changes when they happen to me (which they frequently do), and I appreciate your sharing all the associated details with these reality shifts, since they help those of us reading to follow along with the epic weirdness of the entire thing. Fascinating! I appreciate your taking care to describe the seemingly newly inserted scene in the classic film, "Repo Man" talking about UFOs as time machines. I feel like I do recall some kind of scene like that in that movie, but I'm not completely sure--not at all to say this movie didn't change for you--I'm sure it did. With regard to UFOs being time machines--that actually makes sense, since if those vehicles traverse space-time, time is certainly part of the fabric of reality. The Mandela Effect clearly helps us see that we don't all see the same changes, nor see them at the same times. And there does appear to be another intriguing matter that you're so eloquently pointing out regarding mysteriously missing journal pages, and associated memory floods.

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