The Mandela Effect Revisited: Are We Experiencing Reality Glitches? Intriguing Theories – New Alternative Explanations

 Having been around for some time, the Mandela Effect has indeed had its contentious issues. However, now, with our greater understanding of the nature of reality and consciousness, it is worth revisiting. It has intriguing theories, new explanations.

he Mandela Effect: You have clear memories of something. So much so that it’s tattooed in your brain, then, this particular something that you clearly remember, maybe an audio clip, or an image of, say, a corporate logo, or a TV or movie moment… shows up again, but this time you notice it has changed.

Even though you may have seen it a thousand-plus times, perhaps going as far back as early childhood when you saw it for the first time, you cannot explain this change. “That’s not how I remember it!” you may cry out, but it has definitely altered. How can this be…?!

You’re not alone. Millions of people notice the same specific changes in an audio clip or image, a corporate logo, TV or movie moment, that are different from what they remember.

This is the Mandela effect at work....<<<Read More>>>...

Mystery of the Missing Cornucopia: A Mandela Effect Case Study

 Have you ever heard of the Mandela Effect? It’s a phenomenon where a large number of people remember something differently than how it actually is.

For example, some people swear that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s, while others remember him becoming the president of South Africa in the 1990s. How can this be?

One of the most famous examples of the Mandela Effect is the Fruit of the Loom logo. Many people remember seeing a cornucopia, or a horn of plenty, behind the fruits in the logo. However, if you look at the actual logo, there is no cornucopia at all. Just fruits.

Like many others, I was convinced that the cornucopia has disappeared from the famous Fruit of the Loom logo, and in my opinion, it’s one of the strongest Mandela Effects, because of the left-over residual evidence of its existence, coupled with the huge amount of people that are certain it was there, including employees of the company....<<<Read More>>>...

How the Mandela Effect reveals errors in our geographical memory

 The Mandela Effect is a strange phenomenon that occurs when many people have vivid memories of things, people or events that are different from the actual facts. It can refer to biographies of famous people, historical events, or even movies.

For example, some people are convinced that Nelson Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist and president, died in prison in the 1980s, even though he was alive until 2013. The term was coined by Fiona Broome, a researcher of anomalous phenomena, who discovered that she was not the only one who had this false memory.

One of the areas where the Mandela Effect is most noticeable is geography. Many people have erroneous ideas about the location or shape of countries on world maps. They believe that countries used to be in a different place than they are now, or that they had a different size or form.

One example of this is New Zealand. Can you determine its location without looking at the map? Is it in the northeast or southeast of Australia? Or maybe in the west or even in the east?

The correct answer is that New Zealand is in the extreme southeast of Australia, about 1200 miles from the mainland. However, for many people this answer seems to be wrong. They have different ideas about the location of New Zealand, which have been formed since childhood. Some believe that it is located much to the south, while others believe that New Zealand is located almost off the coast of Australia in the northeast....<<<Read More>>>>....

New study seeks to explain the ‘Mandela Effect’ – the bizarre phenomenon of shared false memories

Imagine the Monopoly Man. Is he wearing a monocle or not?

If you pictured the character from the popular board game wearing one, you’d be wrong. In fact, he has never worn one.

If you’re surprised by this, you’re not alone. Many people possess the same false memory of this character. This phenomenon takes place for other characters, logos and quotes, too. For example, Pikachu from Pokémon is often thought to have a black tip on his tail, which he doesn’t have. And many people are convinced that the Fruit of the Loom logo includes a cornucopia. It doesn’t.

We call this phenomenon of shared false memories for certain cultural icons the “visual Mandela Effect.”

People tend to be puzzled when they learn that they share the same false memories with other people. That’s partly because they assume that what they remember and forget ought to be subjective and based on their own personal experiences...<<<Read More>>>...

The Mandela Effect

Snopes.com: Human memory is a peculiar thing, at once astonishing in its scope and power and dismaying in its fallibility. There’s much we don’t know about how memory works, but suffice it to say it isn’t perfect.

Particularly vexing is the phenomenon of false memories, erroneous or unconsciously fabricated recollections of past events that feel so real and true that people who experience them refuse to accept evidence to the contrary.

Psychologists call the phenomenon confabulation. The term is used clinically to refer to memory defects experienced by patients with brain damage, and also to describe everyday phenomena like embellishing the truth when recounting events and inventing facts on the fly to fill in gaps in memory.

We’ve all done these things at one time or another, though we’re rarely conscious of it when we do.

No single example of the Mandela Effect has generated more online buzz than that of the children’s book series and animated TV show The Berenstain Bears. Quite a few people who grew up with the series, it turns out, remember the title being The Berenstein Bears, with the name ending in “ein” instead of “ain” (with some even going to go so far as to maintain that the fictional bears’ surname was changed along the way to make it “less Jewish”)...read more>>>...

The Illusion Of Reality

Waking Times: A new internet meme, related to confabulation, is known as the Mandela Effect. This is a situation where a number of people have memories that are different from available evidence. The term was coined by Fiona Broome, who says she, and other people, remember Nelson Mandela dying in the 1980s, rather than in 2013.

She argues that common memories which appear mistaken could be explained by the existence of parallel universes that are able to interact with each other. A common thread of discussion regarding this “effect” is misremembering the Berenstain Bears being spelled as, “Berenstein Bears.”

The “Mandela Effect” is named after South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, who became a topic of interest in the year 2010 by people noticing with surprise that he was alive at that time–since many people remembered him having died while incarcerated.

Observations of dead people alive again are just one of many types of Mandela Effects, with other notable examples including changes to song lyrics, movie dialogue, movie scenes, physical geography, physiological anatomy, and product names.

The Mandela Effect is one of those things most people won’t believe in until it happens to them. Like falling in love or going through heartbreak, the Mandela Effect is something you have to experience in order to fully embrace....read more>>>...