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Changed Granite Countertop
R.L.
Wheatland, Iowa, USA
I have had so much weirdness happening in my world lately. I want
to share with you a story of a possible Mandela Effect that
happened to me recently. Two months ago I had a new coffee
colored granite counter top island installed in my kitchen.
Upon delivery I was told to fully inspect the granite to make sure there
were no cracks, fissures, or damage after installation. The two men
who installed the counter inspected the granite with me and we
noticed one small (2 x 3 inch) square of dark discoloration in the granite,
an anomaly that happens when the rock is formed. I signed off on it
because it was barely noticeable and I viewed it as part of the uniqueness
of the counter top. I wipe down this counter top at least 3
times a day with hot soapy water after every family
meal. I have also had several family members visit to see my new
granite counter top and they all thought it looked beautiful. In other
words, I have closely inspected this counter top many times since it
was installed. I have seen it in all types of lighting; morning sun, with
overhead kitchen lights off and on, as well as in the evening. It was
always a beautiful dark, coffee brown color. This all changed last
week. On the evening of April 12th, as I was wiping the counter
after dinner, I noticed the granite had changed! There is now a
LARGE stripe of light brown granite embedded in the counter's
surface. This is NOT the counter top I remembered! I showed
my husband and he suggested that maybe our son spilled something on the
counter and it changed color. This is not a possibility as the
protective lacquer coating is still intact and what could my son
possibly spill on the counter to change the granite but not damage the
protective coating?? I am attaching a picture below to show you the
discoloration. My counter used to be a uniform dark brown color and
now this. I told the Universe that I would like my original counter
top back as I like it better than this one! A friend of mine
wonders if the granite changed color because it was soaking up energy in
the room. I am baffled and would appreciate your thoughts on this.
I do recall having the thought that maybe I could’ve chosen a
granite design that is similar to what the stripe looks like. Once
or twice, before the change happened, I wondered how that design
(that is now the stripe) would look in my kitchen. In the granite showroom,
prior to my original purchase, there was a countertop that looked very
similar to the stripe in mine but I decided on my current granite
countertop instead. It never occurred to me that maybe the universe was
giving me a real life sample of the countertop I had actually wondered
about!
My husband did acknowledge a change but after I debunked his theories, like
a chemical spill on the countertop, he didn’t want to talk about
it anymore. I told him about Mandela effects but he wasn’t on
board with that. I think the idea of timeline changes frightens him. I find
it all very fascinating and it does not frighten me one bit! Lol Nobody
in my extended family and/or friend group noticed there was a change. Upon
inquiry they said they couldn’t remember the exact design detail
from the first time I showed them the countertop, so if there was a change
they didn’t notice. Thank you, Cynthia, for giving us a
platform to share our experiences. It's great to share experiences
with people like yourself who understand that there may be something else
going on here that cannot be explained away.
Note from Cynthia: How amazing that you had so many
opportunities to closely scrutinize your granite countertop, and never
until April 12th of this year did you see the now-prominent and distinctive
brown stripe running through! There is no mistaking this current
pattern for something so small as you checked off at the time of the
installation of your new counter, and surely you would have noticed this
change during the many times you cleaned the counter and discussed it with
friends and family. Since the granite counter was sealed to prevent
damage or color changes, it certainly seems unlikely that any such
accidental (or intentional) change occurred. It's interesting that you much
prefer the way the granite used to look--and it's possible it might change
back to that at some point. I've witnessed some changes make that
kind of flip-flop reversal, though such changes can sometimes occur quite
some time later. Thanks for sharing what you were thinking about before
this change, having to do with this development, since even passing
thoughts can lead to such reality shifts--including ones like you
experienced, and also including instances of synchronicity.
Physicist John Archibald Wheeler coined the term, "Participatory Universe,"
to convey the idea that observers play a role in experiments, based on the
questions that they ask--or don't ask. That's fascinating that the
universe heard your thoughts and responded with a real-life sample of the
countertop you were contemplating!
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My Chess Competition Scores Exist for Games I Never
Played
Ross
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
In one of the 1970s Philadelphia championships, I was
playing an obsolete opening against NJ master L.D. when he had a key
decision to be made. After his move I was able to maintain the initiative
leading to a won game. Local expert J.K. said to me afterwards that he was
following the game and would have made every move that I made. I take that
to mean that by being careful the game played itself. In a later
tournament, I arrived at the same position against a young low rated class
A player from the suburbs when he sacrificed some material changing the
dynamics. So, if I simply trade pieces off to get to the end game, I should
have a routine win. But "Between the opening and the endgame, the gods have
placed the middle game," and that's where he hoped to win the game. And
with proper technique he might have, but I was able to win due to his
inexperience. But he showed imagination in finding a move that I, NJ
master L.D., and J.K. missed. His name is Karl Demelt, and he became a
strong master with many successes. I became inactive, and don't remember
ever seeing him again. Recently, I showed that critical position to a
computer and it immediately found NJ master L.D.'s move. That's why
computers can beat humans at tourney time controls. My last tournament was
the 2002 Hatboro Open. The site was the Municiple building on Old York
Road, where it splits off from Route 611. I had no trouble parking there
on the weekend. I didn't recognize anyone I played, and scored two wins and
three draws, which is about what my current rating would predict. The
event was held in 2003 and 2004, but I chose not to play. I did consider
it, but the venue was moved to the other end of town. It's rough to get up
early Saturday, rush there, play three games, drive home in the dark, and
get up early again for two games on Sunday. I recently ran across my last
chess scoresheet tablet. To my surprise, I found the last entries were my
games of all these tournaments! My results were 2003: 3 wins, 2 loses and
2004: 3 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw. I only recognized one of my opponents--- Karl
Demelt. I lost to him once each year playing black. My memory is not
faulty; I clearly remember choosing not to compete in these two events. I
would have remembered playing Demelt; I remembered playing him when he was
a nobody. I'm sure that I would have talked to him. I suppose I did talk to
him; I wonder what our conversation was about. I am not ashamed of my
defense in either game; I missed an equalizing shot in the first and was
edged out in a long endgame in the other. I had dropped out of the master
rating earlier so my expert standing would not have changed much. I
remember my rating was 2186 ( Expert: 2000---2199 ). I went to the U.S.
Chess Federation website, and looked up my current rating. It is 2182;
these last two tournaments did not change it much.
Note from Cynthia: Thanks so much for sharing this experience
with witnessing evidence of a different history than what you remember
about the games of chess you played in chess tournaments from a couple of
decades ago. That's fascinating that you only recognize one of your
opponents in the 2003 chess tournament that you don't recall having played,
and can now see evidence that you did play in that tournament, apparently,
even though the only opponent in those matches that you even recognize is
Karl Demelt. How strange it must feel to look at scores for games you know
you did not play--and how interesting to imagine what you said when playing
Demelt.
Lost Crystal Found Me, and Tree Vanished
Susan
Ithaca, New York, USA
I have been wanting to share this story with you, I am so
glad to finally be able to do so. For years I had a fluorite crystal
octahedron that I took everywhere, my constant companion. Sometime
in the mid-eighties, I went out to lunch with a group of coworkers, I was
wearing a dress that had large pockets and of course, my trusty crystal was
in one of those pockets. Until I got home and discovered it
was GONE! I thought about going back to the restaurant to look for
it but thought again, no, I would look like a lunatic so took the
philosophical attitude, nothing lasts forever, and it was time to part with
that beloved crystal. Fast forward thirty years or so to December
30, 2006. I got thinking about that crystal and was wondering if I
could find another similar one. I spent hours online searching but
nothing I found was as large or unique as the one I lost.
To distract myself from the obsessive searching, I decided to get the
quartz beads I had stashed in a box of crystals and stones and make a
necklace. The year previous I had replaced the old dusty worn box
with a new one, I had removed each stone and crystal, rinsed and dried them
then put each in a small envelope labeled with what was in it so I of
course knew that the lost crystal was not in that new box. While I
was looking for the beads, I saw a rather bulging envelope that I did not
recognize. I stood there staring at it afraid to open it. Thinking,
of course, it can't be the octohedron, but, what if it was? I had
never been more dumbfounded than when I did open that envelope and it was
that lost fluorite octohedron. How could this happen? I wondered,
this seems to be a miracle but I'm not special enough to do miracles. It
is so reassuring to know there is an explanation for these happenings.
I had another reality shift where a unique-looking tree that was across
from where I sometimes caught the bus was just not there one day. I
went to that location early the next day to look for where a tree had been
cut down but not a trace of any tree removal and really no space
where it could have been among the other trees.
I really liked that tree too! About that tree, it was across the road from
the bus stop which was on the edge of town further down than the
place I usually waited but this location was usually empty and had a
nice place to sit and read. What set this tree apart from the
others was the leaves gave the tree an almost
elliptical shape and it was shorter than the tall
branchy trees. I am not the most observant of individuals
so the day I remembered to look up from my book to admire the tree,
it was gone. After that crystal experience, I know there is more going on
than we are currently able to sense or understand. I have an
insatiable curiosity and am itching to take a look behind the proverbial
curtain! Thank you for your work on this subject, I'm sure you are putting
many minds at rest, including my own!
Note from Cynthia: Wow, what an amazing experience to have your
special octahedron fluorite crystal return to you, and in such style,
too! I love the way it came back even though so much time had
passed, but you had been recently missing it and thinking fondly of
it. My view of miracles is that we are all capable of and special
enough to experience miracles, and it seems to me that the Creator would be
happiest if more of us were open to them. I love your experience with the
tree! How amazing that a distinctive tree that you had such a special
connection with and saw regularly was just gone without a trace one
day. Clearly this tree wasn't a figment of imagination, since it
was unusual looking, and truly something memorable. I've heard
reports from reliable sources (friends of mine, who I know well) who have
seen trees and mountains sometimes move or go missing, or appear where they
hadn't been before. These sightings are quite noticeable when they
happen to you involving a scene you view regularly.
Fun Coinkydinks
Lisa
Davis, California, USA
Had a few fun coinkydinks recently. I was wondering the
other day about the name of a singer I couldn’t think of--and
the very next day, I saw a news flash about it being her birthday! Good
answer to my question that I’d put out into the universe. It
was Tracy Chapman, by the way. And did I tell you that a couple of weeks
ago, my niece sent me a bouquet of flowers in a glass vase that was lined
with a waterproof photo of me? It was that favorite photo of me sitting in
my black Datsun, and I was wearing a black hat I’d just bought
at Mervyns with Mom’s Mervyns charge card. I was stunned to see
the picture in the vase, because just a couple of days before,
I’d been thinking of that very photo and wondering if I still
had it on my computer somewhere! I’d been thinking fondly of my
old Datsun and people’s photos of themselves with their first
cars. Not sure if I influenced her, or she sent the image to my brain.
Good connection, either way!
Note from Cynthia: I love your experiences of thinking of
something, and then seeing it show up shortly thereafter! These
kinds of meaningful coincidences can be fostered, as Dr. Bernard Beitman
writes about in his book, "Meaningful Coincidences." It helps to
have strong emotions about something, and it's also helpful to believe that
the Cosmos converses with you directly. I love how you got such fun
answers to thoughts and questions coming through so beautifully!
