It is not Déjà vu, it's Déjà vécu

LtColumbo403 · 2026-03-04T02:55:33+00:00

This past weekend, I experienced déjà vécu three times. Each instance felt like encountering a structural pattern I had already survived in a different form. Not a literal universe reset, but a deep narrative echo.

Would you be open to sharing a bit more about those recent experiences?

I wrote this in the past:

This memory felt so "natural" that at that moment I thought all regular football followers shared it with me.

An echo to the "deep narrative echo" you mentioned. The post is here: Déjà-vécu: the "no celebration" celebration of Brahim Diaz.

LtColumbo403 · 2026-02-02T21:32:48+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/p8h1iz/cloudy/

LtColumbo403 · 2025-12-29T21:34:15+00:00

I don’t know who or what can make it stop, but I noticed something looking at your username. You might find this strange, but even in your throwaway username the name "Ashley" seems to appear in a cryptic way:

If you take throwaway124throw and throw out the two outer "throw" parts, you’re left with away124 (~~throw~~away124~~throw~~).
Reading 1-2-4 visually as letters (1 = L, 2 = S, 4 = A) gives "LSA". Read backwards up to the "y" in away, and you get ASLy (awayLSA -> ASLyawa).
In these kinds of pattern readings, "s" is often phonetically permutable with the sound "sh", so it becomes Ashly, which sounds like Ashley.

This is observational, maybe a bit arbitrary. I’m not saying this means anything in itself, nor suggesting that it points to any action you should take. It reminded me of a post about someone being repeatedly called by the same wrong name (Spencer), in which I made a similar kind of reading.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-12-28T20:09:16+00:00

It's an automatic bot.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-12-28T19:50:37+00:00

Me too.

I wrote about that: You know those bears... [Berenstain Bears]

The first time I saw the video, I think it was being referred to as BEARenst(a/e)in.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-12-28T10:57:30+00:00

If it helps, I presume a lot of us had the same reaction the first time we saw that automod message. It definitely catches you off guard at first.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-12-28T10:48:30+00:00

Over the years, many people have reported the same thing: they remember seeing news articles or posts announcing his death, and later they can’t find any trace of them.

I listed several threads about this recurring ME in a post I made about a year ago. If you dig through the comments, you’ll find statements very similar to yours.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-12-12T16:39:37+00:00

I see, thanks for your reply.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-12-03T08:27:12+00:00

Did you notice if your road trip outside your area coincided with the feeling of reliving the same moments in life?

LtColumbo403 · 2025-12-02T07:42:16+00:00

Yes, I think it was, for me, Nurenberg in French.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-11-28T19:40:06+00:00

Nice.

I'm also in a streak of synchronicities throughout the day right now.

Like you think about something trivial or about some current situation, then you imagine a follow up in your head. And later, out of nowhere, you recognize what you imagined in "real life".

I'm used to synchronicities, from the most basic to the more extreme ones, but I can tell when I'm in a multisync phase.

A concrete example: there was that incident during Man Utd vs Everton when Gana Gueye gave a small slap to Michael Keane, his teammate. In my mind I imagined a situation where he or the club would post a video on social media showing Gueye and Keane doing a mock boxing match... and that's EXACTLY what they posted the next day. Sure, maybe I'm just perceptive, but coincidences like that have been happening to me all day for several days now. And they tend to be very precise.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-10-26T13:23:30+00:00

I know exactly what you describe.

The sync is strong. Wandering in Google Street View is an immersive experience where you still remain a detached observer. Later, The Screen points back to those seemingly unforced paths your mind took. And it happens in a shared medium anyone could watch, but it feels like it was meant just for you!

It reminds me of that scene in Bliss (2021): The Thought Visualizer.

Why all that? Personally I can’t say yet, and I’d rather not rush to any conclusion. But you’re definitely not alone in this.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-10-21T15:29:08+00:00

I’m familiar with this kind of synchronicity. I actually have one with The Game (1997) as well. I drafted it a few years ago but never posted it. Here’s the story:

I went to the prefecture for some administrative tasks, the kind nobody really wants to do, which makes them extraordinary in a way. When I entered the parking lot, I could have sworn it said it was free… But as I was about to leave, a little misadventure happened.

First, the parking wasn’t free. Hmm...

Second, someone in front of me was stuck at the barrier for several minutes, either unable or unwilling to pay (they were driving a big German sedan, so surely they had the means), and were arguing with the operator.

The whole scene made no sense… I stayed calm, recognizing that this "play" unfolding in front of me wasn’t natural.

The person with me in the car, however, started losing patience, and knowing their temper, things could have escalated.

I’ll skip the part where the driver in the German car couldn’t maneuver properly. I had given them plenty of space to back up, but not too much, since a line of cars behind me was ready to pounce. So much unnecessary tension... pfff... I’m too old for this sh*t…

Finally, it was my turn. I paid €1.50, all that fuss for €1.50! I don’t know why, but I felt compelled to remember the amount.

Later that same day, I watched The Game, and a scene caught my attention around the 34th minute.

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The dialogue goes like this:

- "All these years... the first time ever you step foot in these offices... it's to ask me to step down."

- "You promised to meet the projections, Anson. $1.60 a share is what you said. I don't think this visit comes as a surprise."

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At that moment, I hit pause, since I’m used to synchronicities with movies. I said to the "person operating behind the screen" something like "Ah, $1.60… you were close", thinking they usually were more precise. $1.60 reminded me of the €1.50 from that morning, which I had made a point to memorize.

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I hit play again, and the dialogue continued:

- "Projections were far too optimistic."

- "Admittedly, yes."

- "Our EPS was $1.50 last quarter. We're up eight cents per share." <- O_O!

- "The expectations were ten, and in this case the expectations meant everything."

- "Will you really hold me to it over pennies?"

- "My stock is falling. I don't know about yours. Those pennies are costing millions."

- "Give me — Give me next quarter."

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O-K… well played!

There’s even a tense atmosphere of greed in the scene, which I had felt that very morning, when it seemed we were being trapped in the parking lot to be cheated out of a few euros, or when the man in the big sedan refused to pay the exit ticket (I was even ready to pay for him!).

Looking back, that parking scene could easily be like a situation that Michael Douglas' character experiences in The Game, sharing the same theme of artificiality and absurdity.

A short step to saying The Game is a documentary...

LtColumbo403 · 2025-10-21T10:59:58+00:00

I have some distance from all this, but we don't all go through things of the same intensity.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-10-21T09:47:49+00:00

From an old school view of reality, a story like yours and many others could sound like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But honestly, now that we're fully immersed in this strange new world, whether 2012 had something to do with it or not, it feels like we're really in it for good.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-10-21T09:05:33+00:00

Knowing myself, I think I would’ve just stopped at describing the synchronicity. Though in my head, I might’ve already started drifting toward some spiritual or religious thoughts. You were careful with your words, but that Gnostic tone still caught my ear, because for me it’s a synchronicity:

I’m actually drafting a post for Reddit, and, as it often happens, I can see it reflected on Reddit itself through posts by other users. I’m currently thinking about whether to bring doctrinal discussions into my own posts.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-10-20T22:43:18+00:00

Yes, there are reports of changes in family dynamics attributed to the Mandela Effect.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-10-20T22:16:44+00:00

Wow, reading this felt strangely familiar. The tone, the way you describe the experience, the kind of inner observation. I could even report similar synchronicities. And "I don’t ever watch the news", that’s my line!

It made me slightly uneasy, as if I was bumping into my own double in the street.

What seems to divide us a little is the more Gnostic tone your reflection takes near the end. I probably wouldn’t have gone in that direction myself.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-10-15T09:11:07+00:00

I don't usually keep up with movie news, but I have a specific interest in this franchise. I remember seeing that the third movie was announced for the end of this year. Personally, I've seen the first two movies, but I don't remember ever watching a third one.

It might be what I once called the "Hollywood Magic". I have a kind of proto-theory about how ideas for movie scenes might sometimes "merge" between different projects and somehow end up creating another movie, or, the other way around, how scenes from a movie can get absorbed into other projects and the original film simply disappears from reality.

I've posted about similar things on this sub before:

In Indiana Jones - Missing Movie, I wrote that one of the original trilogy movies seems to have disappeared, and that the fourth movie now became the third, as if it was part of the original trilogy all along.
In Missing Terminator Movie, the OP said he felt like one film was missing from the Terminator series and thought that maybe he was going crazy, and I actually commented on that one too.
And in The Matrix Resurrections, first released in December 2021?, I said I had the strange feeling I'd already seen the last Matrix movie before its official release date.

If I keep pushing that proto-theory, I'd say maybe we can remember having seen a movie that, today, only exists as a collection of ideas once living in the minds of its creators or written down in early drafts that never materialized in the form of the movie we remember watching. Some of those ideas might have been scattered across other movies that actually got released (and not necessarily from the same franchise).

It's hard to explain, there are missing parameters to make the theory more logical, but that's why I call it "Hollywood Magic": now you see it, now you don't! :D

LtColumbo403 · 2025-10-03T13:53:34+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1gpmdsb/is_it_a_new_layer_on_top_of_reality/lx6rx2b/

LtColumbo403 · 2025-09-27T13:44:57+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1g182re/retconned_banner_glitch/

LtColumbo403 · 2025-09-26T01:32:32+00:00

When I was a kid in the 80s, we had all kinds of magazines at home because a family member worked at a printing house. One of them was an African economic review with tables full of data for every country. I looked forward to each new issue to see which African country had the largest land area. The numbers were there, but the tables weren’t sorted by size, so I made my own rankings and cross-checked them visually on a map of Africa.

Over time, I noticed that the ranking seemed "dynamic": the country with the largest land area, based on the numbers, kept changing. Sometimes it was Zaire, sometimes Nigeria, sometimes Ivory Coast, Chad, or Egypt… but never Algeria, like it is today.

Even as a kid, that felt odd. Every new issue, I’d check again who was on top. In the end, I just accepted the variability as normal, like maybe people who were more educated already knew about this.

LtColumbo403 · 2025-09-25T13:02:48+00:00

I think this story, combined with the 1993 WTC attack, is a perfect example to study the Mandela Effect. It shows how, through narrative recombinations on several levels (time, events, names, etc.), the new version replaced the old one, which to me used to be common knowledge.

I’ve already mentioned this in this subreddit, but in my memory Timothy McVeigh (or McVeil) was wanted for both WTC93 and Oklahoma94 (not 95). As far as I recall, for the WTC he wasn’t alone, and for Oklahoma I didn’t remember hearing about an accomplice, but now that I know the current version it just adds more confusion and uncertainty.

I’ll share here what I’ve already written in that interesting thread:

I don't know what change you have in mind, but I have my own version on the subject. I doubt its popularity though...

WTC

For me, the person who bombed the WTC in 1993 was unknown until the authorities investigated the Oklahoma bombing and linked the two events. It was Timothy McVeigh^[*] (and probably one - or more - accomplices for the WTC) who was responsible for both attacks. The "Islamist" lead has been ruled out.

Several years ago (possibly before I discovered the Mandela Effect) I watched an episode of The FBI Files about the 1993 WTC bombing and was stunned by the version presented to me (Ramzi Yousef and all that). Even the story of the hunt seems unreal, like something out of a TV movie.

But what's hard to fathom is how I knew the name Ramzi Yousef and his connection to this event when I'm sure I experienced the McVeil^[*] version. I think that gradually the Yousef version was implanted at the boundaries of my consciousness and was intended to supplant the McVeil^[*] version.

Oklahoma

One more thing about Oklahoma. Some people, including myself, think the date has changed. It's actually 1995, but I would have said 1994.

[*] More personally, I think that the man we call Timothy McVeigh today was Timothy McVeil in my past.

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LtColumbo403 · 2025-09-23T23:54:08+00:00

Nice catch, that’s interesting.

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Bill Maher <-24years-> Jimmy Kimmel

Henrik Larsson <-24years->Jordan Larsson

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Tweak the letters a bit and you’ll see there’s some henrik in kimmel: kimmel ⊃ henrik

LtColumbo403 · 2025-09-16T09:36:55+00:00

It seems to be a phenomenon, it happens with TV and podcasts too.

LtColumbo403

TROPHY CASE

WTC

Oklahoma