Do you believe in The Mandela Effect?

[Esoteric]

From knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-mandela-effect:

About

The Mandela Effect refers to a phenomenon in which a large number of people share false memories of past events, referred to as confabulation[13] in psychiatry. Some have speculated that the memories are caused by parallel universes spilling into our own, while others explain the phenomenon as a failure of collective memory.
Origin

In 2010, blogger Fiona Broome coined the term “Mandela Effect” to describe a collective false memory she discovered at the Dragon Con convention, where many others believed that former South African President Nelson Mandela died during his imprisonment in the 1980s. That year, Broome launched the site MandelaEffect.com[1] to document various examples of the phenomenon.

See, I thought Nelson Mandela died in prison. I thought I remembered it clearly, complete with news clips of his funeral, the mourning in South Africa, some rioting in cities, and the heartfelt speech by his widow.

Then, I found out he was still alive.

Additionally, Broome described other widely held false memories, including various nonexistent Star Trek episodes and the death of the Reverend Billy Graham.

[We are in the Beam]

No.

[Down The Drain]

Ain't no planet x coming cause ain't no space cuz ain't not globe earth

[Esoteric]

Postat inițial de Sir Dankus Stelbeam Memeland:

Ain't no planet x coming cause ain't no space cuz ain't not globe earth

What's that mean, that nothing is real?

[Pronoun Paladin ☯]

I was watching a youtube video on Trump Derangement Syndrome and it shared many similarities with the Mandala Effect.

During the last election many people were told by their democrat political leaders that the other side was evil. That they were deplorable human beings and racists (that magically stayed hidden for 8 years of a black man being President but came out of the wood-work when a white woman runs for President). It was built up about how terrible the other side was.

Now if the other side would of won the election, everything would of been defused. In their minds the good side would of triumphed over evil and all was well in the world.

But since they lost the election, that defusion never occured. So you get a bunch of people who are dead set about how evil Trump is, without having the ability to back it up and say anything but what the media feeds them.

In other words a bunch of people have this false memory of fighting against evil, when in actuality they're deluded and are hateful towards other American cittizens. They've invented this false sense of who the evil guys are, and they buy into the narrative that Trump's a White Supremacist and ignore facts like blacks, latinos, minorities voted for Trump as well as the other guy.

[Rio]

Whats to believe? Its known that people in groups can convince themselves of lies.

[A Variety of Soaps]

Yes, you know why? Because it's simply a couple of people creating false memories and having people who don't remember well either pick the same story up.

[A Variety of Soaps]

Postat inițial de Sashie:

Whats to believe? Its known that people in groups can convince themselves of lies. :hp_audrey:

Exactly! c^:

[Ëvïlnïck8 ゴゴゴ]

Yes, its easy to remember things diffrently or confuse simelar memories.

[Exiled Alchemist]

I'll just leave this video as my answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltst5EDnde4

[A Variety of Soaps]

Postat inițial de holid🎄y mattmoo:

Postat inițial de Variety of Soaps:

Yes, you know why? Because it's simply a couple of people creating false memories and having people who don't remember well either pick the same story up.

That doesn't nessecarily explain away the whole situation, but it could.

I suppose it's possible but I don't think paralel realities just slip over into our own. Maybe it's happened in the last hundred years but that would be somewhat disturbing, to say the least. The truth can be a strange thing.

In all my time in off topic, I've noticed I am probably one of the few educated on psychadelics. Sometimes people doing this can share an experience whether or not it happened.

Yeah, but I bet that's most of the time, though I can't prove it.

[May90]

Of course. It is a pretty common effect, often used by various individuals or groups consciously in order to change people's opinion in the direction they benefit from.

It is caused by the way our brain works. Repetition builds up new neural connections, even if what is being repeated is completely made up. Unless the person is extremely resistant and critically-thinking, he/she will soon get to the point of believing the story, no matter whether supported by evidence or not. Then, the cognitive dissonance between the person's memories/knowledge and the accepted narrative forces them to tweak their memories/knowledge in a way that supports this narrative. And from there, these memories/knowledge become real for the person.

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Postat inițial de Conway:

No.

[Dennemi³]

isnt it just where stereotypes interfere with memory?
i mean with the mandella effect of the monopaly dude i would honestly PREFER him with a monacle because he seems like the right guy to own one

[A Variety of Soaps]

Postat inițial de Denemi™:

isnt it just where stereotypes interfere with memory?
i mean with the mandella effect of the monopaly dude i would honestly PREFER him with a monacle because he seems like the right guy to own one

Like how George the monkey doesn't have a tail?

[Dennemi³]

Postat inițial de Variety of Soaps:

Postat inițial de Denemi™:

isnt it just where stereotypes interfere with memory?
i mean with the mandella effect of the monopaly dude i would honestly PREFER him with a monacle because he seems like the right guy to own one

Like how George the monkey doesn't have a tail?

eh maybe it just your brain thinks like this
MAN I REMEBER THIS THING BUT THERES THIS ONE THING IM FORGETTING
AWW YE HE DIDNT HAVE A TAIL
wait no its just misremebering things