The ' mamas and papas ' song ' California dreaming is an example of the mandela effect some people swear the lyrics are began to pray others say its always been pretend to pray . The gist is that some people think the lyrics have changed because of alternate realities or something . Personally I think some people just miss heard the lyrics . The berenstein bears is another one . I beleive its called the mandella effect because some people say they remember news reports saying nelson mandella had died in prison . <| sep |> The chants AJ gets every time tell me he is way more popular than Ambrose <| sep |> My dad moved to the UK in 1979 from a village in India at the age of 23 . I ' m 28 now and whenever I visit it , be it years apart I am warmly welcomed as part of the village . People know me in the street I don ' t even recognise them at first but then they explain the relation to me , ask if I need anything , want to come to their house for some tea etc . My dad is still very well known there . His dad my grandfather built their first ever sewage and clean water systems in the village . Our family as a whole have kept the local school running . Despite the fact that I have no living relatives as far as up to 2 nd cousins still living in the village I am treated like family . It ' s probably a cultural thing .