Have you ever been completely so sure of a memory just for it to not have happened, the way you remembered it well your not alone what that is called is the Mandela effect. It’s a bizarre phenomenon that has sparked endless debates, conspiracy theories and even questioning reality. The term Mandela effect was coined from a paranormal researcher named Fiona Brome, Her and a bunch of other people remember this guy Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980. but in all reality He was released from prison and became the president of south Africa, living until 2013.
What psychologists says its just how our memory works, Our brain doesn’t take video cameras just fills in blanks and make assumptions and shaped by media and people even emotions, When groups of people share the wrong memory, its often because of how information spreads socially, someone could say confidently misremember something and others would agree so it would become a shared memory.
Even if the effect is a cheeky brain quirk it can make people question something deep such as if we can trust our own minds while in a age with misinformation such as a AI, Deep fakes, Understanding how our memory works has never been more important. Whether its proof of actual parallel dimensions or just our brain playing tricks on us, the Mandela effect will show us that reality has never been more flexible and mysterious than we think
