I have been wondering about The Mandela Effect, and my research confirms that it is a very real psychological phenomenon, but probably not real in the sense of being proof of alternate universes.
The term was coined by Fiona Broome after she discovered that many people (herself included) remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, even though he actually passed away in 2013. Since then, people have found countless examples of false collective memories like:
• The Monopoly Man – Does he have a monocle?
• “Febreze”- Is it spelled with one “e” in the middle, or two?
• Is it “Luke, I am your father”?
* Does the Fruit of the Loom logo actually have a cornucopia?
(What do you remember?
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Psychologists (good grief experts!) say it is because memory is reconstructive, and that every time we recall something, we “rebuild” it. And often we do it based upon influences, associations, expectations, or cultural reinforcement. «Experts» conclude that if a false version…of something like the death of Nelson Mandela…spreads widely enough, it can feel real to a group of people.
They (good grief experts!) have already a set of replies that will logically take the magic and the illusion from all of us. They say it is confabulation, in other words, the brain is filling in the gaps of memory. They also tell us that the brain remembers what fits rather than the exact details. Finally they say that we remember what others say they remember therefore strengthening the «false memory.»
In other words, to experts we are too stupid to remember what we say we are remembering and we forget what really happened. Does that make sense? No! Of course, experts, as usual, are making up bullshit as they go and always trying to tell us that we are just imagining things. Especially things like Bigfoot, aliens, the Mandela Effect and the Multiverse hypothesis.
But the Mandela Effect can be our most important and real indication of the fact that the universe is not limited to us and that there are many universes and timelines out there. The Mandela effect, in effect, is time itself slipping in and out of parallel universes across the multiverse. I just do not understand why «experts» always contradict a good story!
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What do you think?
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I have come across this theory too, on YouTube of course… where we and it all meets, crossing ways, and made me think that it may partially be ‘true’, as I have personally experienced such memory oddities, but after really checking some details that I seemed to remember against reality first hand, because it was part of my life and easily accessible… and checkable by myself. Still, what I do is I tend to avoid giving names, or taking them for granted, given freely all over the place by experts to various such «phenomena», also trying to avoid believing in and buying into the names «experts» give, and so many of them… «Mandela effect», «bipolar disorder», «PTSD», «Munchausen syndrome» oh my… they all sound so «believable» and «convincing», but I try to take them all with a grain of salt.
Well… what there is also sailing freely on the internet is the idea or the concept that our attention decides what reality is, what we focus on we grow… or what we watch/see/observe we become. And they call it «the observer effect», yet another name. But it all makes me think that all these are simply naturally occurring experiences, situations or cases, due to the fact that we are human, not robots, not perfect, but wonderfully unpredictable and creative, even without knowing it sometimes. And such «concoctions» of our mind come hand in hand with our brain functioning as it naturally does, maybe at its optimum… so why rush to «label» it somehow, or give it a random pompous title… I always wonder.
I also think such names that «experts» give and cling too can be too easily used wrongly as labels amongst people, in society at large, over the internet too, by some who simply enjoy feeling important (or innocent young people who may take it all out there as textbook information), even if their level of expertise is quite low or inexistent. So the existence of such fixed terms or names ends up acting like fetters, or like a looming hammer, as people end up «perceiving» every little detail a bit «out of the normal» as a nail, or worse… as a potential issue that needs fixing. Not to mention that we all become «overnight experts», and YouTube stuff becomes our crash course on… everything psyche, and more, uf 🤔
All this can make people turn against one another in such sad ways… uf, while it all may just be us, being beautifully imperfect humans. And all those so-called «issues» being in fact fleeting details and moments, which if taken gently, no name-calling and no exaggerated focus or assessing, may simply pass like a sudden summer rain.
(I apologize for this long comment, it is quite a rich topic, I wrote as thoughts flowed naturally… thank you for «hosting» it though) 😊
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No apologies necessary Nicole Sara. I agree with many of the points you have mentioned, especially about the labelling desire that people have in this day and age. And I appreciate your participation in this debate. Yes, naturally, since most of our lives is lived on or in the internet, many of the topics we deal with come from there too. But it is because now the flow of information is quicker and more accessible to all. That is good and bad, as you have mentioned, as there are so many people out there with bad intentions and so many scams and evil ones trying to live off of others. But all of that is life and we must be prepared to deal with it and defend ourselves by staying clear of such scoundrels. Thank you so much ANd all the best..
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