Mandela Effect ( 8 min read)
Have you ever remembered something and swore that you are right ? Have you ever watched a movie and weeks after there’s a scene that your positive on what the words were, People post the same words on social media and that solidify’s in your mind that your right ? Well there’s a little know effect, called the Mandela Effect, along the lines of false memories. False memories are just when one person remembers a chain of events that didn’t happen, this is more of a collective false memories were a group of people remember the same events.
“There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.”
- Robert Evans
The Mandela Effect occurs when a large group of people believe an event occurred when it did not. How did it get it’s name ? You guessed it Nelson Mandela. Fiona Broome, talks about how she remembered the former South African President Nelson Mandela dying in the 1980’s in jail, she could in detail describe news coverage of his death and even his widow’s speech on tv about his death. Yet NONE of it happened, Mandela lived till 2013. The funny thing is that she is not the only one that remembers this version of what happened ? The event never happened this way, most people relize this. So strange how she wasn’t the only one who felt like it did. As a result, the Mandela effect term was coined. It has many names false memories. Honest lying, you really aren’t lying you truly believe what you saw. If you were given a lie detector test you would pass with flying colours.
Many believe this is proof of other realities in our own dimension. I don’t know if I’d go that far but it’s very interesting none the less.
Some people even say that no planes hit the World Trade Center Towers. And many people believe they saw just that, explosions in the towers but no planes? Even first responders say that there were no planes ??
Can you tell when you have false memories, where your recall of an event isn’t really what happened ? The only way is really confirm it with research and maybe talking to other people that were at the event or movie ect. One of the problems with asking other people is that people tend to confirm what another person says is true. This is very true, try it some time. It’s all about how you ask the question. So if I say to you a leading statement like “the car that just drove by was blue, right” people will agree with that statement if they aren’t sure or, didn’t see the car. Shockingly, people want to be agreeable. Where as if I say “what color was the car that drove by?” You will get a more honest answer this way.
MOVIES AND POP CULTURE
In movies the Mandela Effect happens aswell,
Remember that glorious scene from empire strikes back, Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker are fighting and Darth turns to Luke and says-
“Luke, I am your father”
I know ! Me too but that’s not the line, hundreds of thousands of people recall that as what Darth Vader says but it’s not correct. Check out this short clip, Even James Earl Jones, the voice of Vader remembers it as the above mentioned line. It was actually “No, I am your father”
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