Mylo wants out of his playpen at 5:00 A.m.: sharp. At first, I thought it was a small burden but now I look forward to it. I open his door and make the coffee for Jonathon and me and he soon joins me on the couch where he quickly goes back to sleep. From 5:30 until 6:00 I watch The Flintstones and pursue my email; 6:00 I watch Me TV’s Toon In With Me, an antique cartoon show. This morning Bill, who is one of the two hosts discussed the Mandela Effect between vintage cartoons.

Bill asked if the audience remembered the beginning of Disney movies having an opening depicting Tinker Bell flying over the Disney Logo and taping her magic wand whereupon magic dust appeared showering the logo. Then he noted that is a false memory held by countless thousands of people. This attestation caught my interest as I remember seeing what apparently did not happen…

Bill went on to say that many people recall watching the funeral of Nelson Mandela years before he died. Another misremembered memory is the children’s book The Berenstein Bears which was never The Berenstein Bears but rather The Bearenstain Bears. MJ and I both remember Tinker Bell spreading her pixy dust over the Disney Logo and the Berenstein Bears as does the actor George Takei of Star Trek fame.

Other instances of mass false memories are the Lindbergh Baby never being found when in fact the remains were and the death of Billy Graham before he died.

Why do thousands and indeed millions share in a false memory? Theories abound including a glitch in the matrix based on the theory that some scientists believe we live in a computer program that malfunctions periodically. Or are there alternate universes and they bleed over into each other?

Are we participants in Group Think or a Hive Mentality? Have we all made the same mistake in memory when our false memories agree over humanity?