Hello all,
You may find this a weird post.
Last night while listening to a few DT songs on YouTube, I happened to notice that the band insignia features the "A" in both "DREAM" and "THEATER" with no line in the middle. Meaning, the A's in DREAM THEATER are presented as inverted V's, or pyramid shapes. I noticed this on the "Awake" CD cover, which I have personally owned for over 20 years. (We can see these "empty A's" in the insignia at the top of this very forum page.)
Now, I am not an avid DT fan, but these type of A's in their band logo are not in accord with my memory. And this is where the weird part begins. Not sure how many here are familiar with the "Mandela Effect" phenomenon. It's too much to get into here in depth, but many people are experiencing "changes" in familiar pop culture elements that do not align with how they have always remembered them. (The most popular of these being many who remember the "Berenstein" Bears, which have actually always been the "Berenstain" Bears.) Many insist that this is proof of merging parallel universes, or that someone is somehow travelling back in time and "changing" things retroactively.
One of the more popular trends of the ME phenomenon seems to be this very issue - the line in the middle of the A disappearing in many popular logos. This has been noticed with the KIA car company, Samsung, the old NASA logo, Highmark insurance, and others. All of these now feature A's with no line. And as I said, I have owned the Awake CD for over 2 decades and had never known the A's in "DREAM THEATER" to be like this. But now my very own physical property shows this stylistic oddity. The Mandela Effect phenomenon would postulate that I have merged from a previous reality into one in which the bands insignia has "always been that way."
So, my questions for the longtime hardcore fans are:
Do you recall the band's insignia having always been this way, with empty A's?
Was there a time when you first realized the A's have no lines in them, and thought it looked odd?
Is this the first time you have realized the A's are like that?
I am curious for everyone's input on this! Here is a video about the apparent "Mandela Effect" on the Dream Theater insignia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ZgGc-pPLY&lc=z22dhx2y1rvgttzkhacdp43bxd0b3av5e4dvsl5cyc5w03c010cThanks!