Mandela effect: that's the meaning
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The so-called Mandela effect is always a popular topic for discussions and speculations. But what is the Mandela effect actually? We'll tell you what's behind it.
The importance of the Mandela effect
- The Mandela effect is meaningful for what is known in science as "confabulation", but which affects individual people.
- Confabulation means nothing other than that a person incorrectly remembers a certain situation. For example, an event that never happened that way.
- The Mandela effect affects large groups of people.
- This group of people collectively remembers something that never happened or looked like this.
- The name "Mandela Effect" created for this phenomenon is due to the death of Nelson Mandela. He died on December 5, 2013 of pneumonia. Nevertheless, many people still believe that you heard about Mandela's death in the 1980s. Mandela died in a prison at the time - but this is not true.
- There are numerous theories about this effect on the Internet: Allegedly, these people remember events from a parallel universe. It is only in our universe that their memories do not correspond to the facts.
- An alternative theory leads back to the fact that the brain can only store a limited amount of information: the further back a stored information is, the more the details of the memory fade. This can lead to false memories.
Examples of the Mandela effect
As already described, Mandela's death is a famous example and namesake for the so-called Mandela effect. But there are numerous other examples of this phenomenon.
- One of the most well-known examples comes from the Star Wars universe and concerns the probably best-known film quote of all time: "Luke, I am your father". Or is that not a famous quote after all? In fact, this saying by Darth Vader is not really a film quote. In the film he says: "No, I'm your father." Nevertheless, many people quote the saying and think they remember it.
- Speaking of Star Wars: do you remember that C3PO had a silver leg in Episode IV? No? You are not alone in this: Very few people will probably remember that it was not completely golden.
- Many people remember seeing the Looney Toons earlier. But that's wrong: It's the Looney Tunes - and they have always been written like this. Nevertheless, many believe that they can remember the first-mentioned spelling.
- Almost every Pokémon fan will remember the cute Pikachu with the red cheeks and black drawings on the ears and tail. However, a small detail here does not correspond to reality: it has no black tail tip at all.
- Kitkat or Kit-Kat? Most people don't ask themselves this question because they remember the logo of the chocolate bar with a hyphen between the two words. Sounds logical, but it's not true: it's actually called KitKat.
- If your textiles need a refresher, go for Febreeze, right? No, not quite: the room spray is called Febreze. Still, most people believe that "Febreeze" is the common spelling.
- How many states does the United States have? Most people would answer 51 or 52 because they remember learning it that way. Wrong: there are actually 50.
- Does the Monopoly man wear a monocle in your memory? Many people imagine him like this and believe that he can remember him. But in truth he doesn't wear one.
- Briefly imagine the VW logo: what does it look like? Is there a line between the V and the W? Most people answer this question in the negative - but in reality the VW logo looks exactly the same: a line separates V and W from each other.
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