Entry #2- False Memory?

 

Hello! Welcome back!

    Picture this: it’s game night, and you pull out a classic board game, Monopoly. After playing for a bit, you realize, didn’t the Monopoly guy have a monocle? This here is called the Mandela effect. The Mandela effect is where you remember something with specific detail but then learn the detail never existed. Another example is that we all remember the famous Star Wars line, “Luke, I am your father,” but what if I told you the movie NEVER said that but instead said, “No, I am your father.”

    The Mandela effect originated in 2009 with Fiona Broome, who remembered the death of Nelson Mandela back in the 1980s. Only to learn that he was alive and well. What she thought she remembered was false. After speaking to security, she learned that he, too, remembered Mandela's passing in the 1980s while in jail. How can this be when others remembered the event almost exactly as she recalled it? This false memory is more common than we think.

    Confabulation is where the brain fills in gaps in memory with things that we feel are appropriate for the character, movie, etc. As a paranormal fanatic, Broome found that this could not be the case if many others experienced these memories nearly identically.  Parallel universes or alternate histories made the most sense, but being unable to prove this caused a lot of frustration.

    It seems odd that people seem to “falsely” remember specific details the same way as others and very vividly remember them. Maybe universes did cross, and some remember things differently. There is an explanation for these occurrences, but what are your thoughts on this? Can people fill gaps with false details and make them up? Is it possible that there are parallel universes that are crossing paths or even combining? How can these be tested? Phenomena like this is very intriguing and expands the mind on what could or couldn’t be. The mind is great and exciting!

Let me know your thoughts or even what you have noticed! Until next time, bye!