There's probably a name for this

[evelynne]

I just wrote about this elsewhere and figured I should put it in my LJ since it's that kind of thing

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[coercedbynutmeg]

I think we have a tree like that in our backyard. (It's right up against the house, so I can't see it normally, and it's not real tall, definitely under 10 feet, like an ornamental.) Don't know what it's called. The berries must be no good, though, otherwise all the squirrels and chipmunks and birds would have eaten them by now.

[evelynne]

That's what the trees here are like! Some are orange, some are red. I adore orange, so I really don't understand how I never noticed them before.

Jeez, some of these trees are even called by the glaringly obvious name of "Winterberry". smh

[evelynne]

I was trying to see if there was a name for it. Is it a variety of Mandela effect? I thought that was about multiple people remembering something incorrectly ("Play it again, Sam") In my case I just don't remember these things at all and suddenly they're everywhere. I never noticed them before. Baader-Meinhof is about discovering something new and then suddenly seeing it everywhere, but this ... it was like I woke up one day and my neighborhood was full of trees with berries on them.

Although it's freaky, it's kind of a cool thing if it means I can discover and enjoy new things in the same place I've been for 15 years.

[sweet_jane]

GLITCH IN THE MATRIX

Also I've just fallen down the Mandela effect rabbit hole, and Berenstain Bears definitely used to be Berenstein Bears! And PUCE IS CHARTREUSE WTF

One of my best friends in my junior year of college was from South Africa and I very clearly remember her talking about Nelson Mandela in the present tense in 1992 or 1993, so I guess I was never in the reality where he died in the 1980s.

But seriously, human memory is super weird. I have this experience all the time: "Ummm, has that always been there?"

Indeed.

[c_maxx]

I hear you. There are times I reread a book or see a movie again, and I go, "didn't that happen differently when I saw it before??"

Makes you wonder! The old school explan is that someone went back in time and stepped on a butterfly while back in the past...