![]() The first time I sipped a Gold Rush, I assumed I had ordered a classic cocktail. Maybe you're ready to make changes, but a major overhaul feels daunting, and you're not sure where to start. RELATED: How to make a Sazerac, a New Orleans cocktail with a sweet and spicy bite An incremental change - a new technique or approach, for instance - that is reminiscent of prior successes has the potential to dramatically alter your reality for the better while still offering the stability of the familiar. I find this understanding particularly useful to draw upon in times when change is called for. Where a Mandela Effect is destabilizing, this kind of memory-that-isn't is more grounding once it's understood: This newer thing isn't old, but it feels like it could be. (Not retro, to be clear, which suggests a self-consciousness about presentation a replica, cheap or not.) Reminiscent, perhaps, comes closest to describing it. Something reminds us so strongly of a thing that has always been around that we believe it must be of a certain vintage. (Think: believing with absolute conviction in a childhood spent reading about the adventures of the Berenstein - rather than the Berenstain - Bears.) Are these false memories, or evidence of permeable parallel universes? Little cognitive earthquakes such as these can shake our belief in objective reality.īut sometimes, we mistake recognition of likeness for recall of existence. The Mandela Effect is an unsettling collective phenomenon: A number of people certain they remember a thing or an event differently than how it actually happened. ![]() " The Oracle Pour" is Salon Food's spirits column that helps you decide what to drink tonight.
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