The Mandela Effect
What is the mandela effect ?
The mandela effect is a situation where a group of people remember or recall something that didn’t actually exist or happen. To put it into a simpler term, a large amount of the population has the same false memory.
Other examples of Mandela effect
Along with the investigation and more and more people taking interest in this Mandela effect, people found more similar cases. Here are the examples.Star Wars
In a star wars film, there is an iconic scene where Dark Vader reveals to Luke Skywalker that he is indeed the father of Luke along with this dialog :
" Luke, I am your father "See? There is nothing wrong with this dialog or so we think.
The truth is Dark Vader did not say like that in the film. The exact dialog, Anakin said, should be
" No, I am your father "This is the perfect example of the Mandela effect.
Another example is in a Disney film " Snow White ".
The magic words used in the film should be
“ Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all ? ”Or that is how we remembered it.
The truth magic words are
“ Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? ”
Another false memory we have is that we thought monopoly man in monopoly has a monocle. But the truth is he never has one.
With the above examples, I hope you got the grip of the mandela effect.
So, why is it happening ??
Which causes the mandela effect?
There is no specific reason why this is happening.
Some say it is all due to the imperfection of our brain’s memory. Unlike a
photograph or a painting, our brain doesn’t record the memory in a picture
perfect manner. Our emotion can affect the memory of the past and there could be
holes in that memory. Then our brain proceeds to fill these holes with the most
logical story it could produce resulting in a false memory with some truth in
it, making us hard to decide the reliability of that memory.
In another idea, people term to remember which is easy to remember. This causes
the people to misremember the name of the certain brands especially if the brand
has a peculiar name. The same thing happened with the name of “Looney Tunes“, a
cartoon show produced by Wander Bros. Instead of the true name “ Looney Tunes “,
people remember it as “ Looney Toon “ which makes more sense. People innately
think of “Toon” part of the word, “cartoon”, when they hear the names of “
Looney Tunes “. Our brain just assume on its own that “ Toon “ should be the
spelling.
Even with false memory, there should be no way that mass of people would have
the same false memory. But the problem is people believe in something many
people said. With the result of the mandela effect, people start sharing their
false memory with others and people remember that false memory easily due to the
nature of the false memory. As that memory spreads like a wild fire, people
start to believe that memory as fact. A few people who doubt that eventually
throw away their doubt without even checking whether it is true or not with the
sole reason of lots of people saying the wrong.
Last not but least is the theory that there might be a parallel universe with a
slight difference to our universe resulting in our memories getting influenced
by the memories of the parallel universe. To put it in simple term, our false
memories are the truth of the parallel universe somehow make it into our brain.
This sounds crazy but there is no legit fact to deny the existence of the
parallel universe.
Even with all of the explanation, it is hard to point the exact course of the
mandela effect since it is still an unexplainable idea. With the conquering of
unexplored area, there would be one day we get the answer of this decade long
mystery.