Perhaps the GP meant 'remembered [to] me...'. That form still has some use in English, eg:

  Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
  Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
  Remember me to the one who lives there,
  For once she was a true love of mine.

This is something that could happen in Dutch, as we have one word for both.

Same in German: "sich erinnern"

as far as i'm concerned, remember (sth) is active and reflexive whereas remind sb (of sth) is passive, so it's not easily confused.

Same thing in Spanish.

I meant nothing negative by it. I was just curious.

Sometimes people have a small "accent" in writing even when their English is pretty good.

Germans sometimes write 'as' when they mean '(something) like' or 'than' because of the German word 'als'.

French and Germans sometimes write "I've been doing it since 12 years" instead of "I've been doing it for 12 years" because of the words 'dépuis' and 'seit'.

Danes usually mess up the verbs by getting the number and person wrong (because modern Danish uses the same form for all {singular, plural} × {1st, 2nd, 3rd} combinations). Spanish speakers sometimes leave out personal pronouns (because they can be inferred from the verb form in Spanish). And so on and so forth.

This is common in many languages. The other similar example being to learn -> to teach. I always hear foreigners (including me, Croatian) messing those up.

Lol, strange how my mistake produced it's own subthread here. And no, I'm german. In hindsight, it felt quirky but I didn't recheck that sentence.

What does French have to do with this? In French, it would read: "m'a rappelé" = "reminded me".

peterfirefly might be thinking of "se souvenir (de)".

It wouldn't make sense in the context of the sentence.

"Le phénomène décrit me souvient..." would sound wrong in the ear of a native french speaker.

Yup, but you need to take into account semantic confusion by a native speaker of one language with words in another language. In this case, peterfirefly might have been thinking of 'se souvenir (de)' and mkesper might have been translating 'se rappeler', but confused 'remind oneself' and 'remember', which is pretty easy to do and explains the mistranslation.

I don't know what actually goes through their heads but it is a mistake I have seen from French speakers before.