The Nelson Mandela Effect

[Denver]

Has anyone heard of this?

There’s an unexplained phenomenon that you’ve probably experienced without knowing what it’s called, and it’s garnering more and more attention lately. "The Mandela effect" is what the internet is calling those curious instances in which many of us are certain we remember something a particular way, but it turns out we’re incorrect.
The name of the theory comes from many people feeling certain they could remember Nelson Mandela dying while he was still in prison back in the ’80s. Contrary to what many thought, Mandela’s actual death was on Dec. 5, 2013, despite some people claiming to remember seeing clips of his funeral on TV.
These false memories have some people thinking their memory sucks, but some wonder if they’ve gone to a parallel universe, or if time travelers have gone to the past and slightly affected our present, or if they’re simply losing their freakin’ minds. Whichever it is, what’s most interesting about the Mandela effect is that so many individuals share the same false memories.

[UserSince2005]

:conf2:what

of course he didnt die in prision, i remmeber the memorials when i was living in sydney in 2013

[Niamh.]

never heard of it :think: I never heard of anyone thinking Nelson Mandela had died in prison either

[Denver]

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[MB.]

This still isn't a thing no matter how many times it gets posted

[Niamh.]

omg though The We Are the Champions thing, I was waiting for that too during the episode of Car Pool :o

[UserSince2005]

omg though The We Are the Champions thing, I was waiting for that too during the episode of Car Pool :o

well that easy to explain, becuase the song has one of those fake ending things halfway though, where it sounds like the song is ending and freedy sings "of the woooooooorrrrllld"

[Nicky91]

:think: uh what

[Niamh.]

well that easy to explain, becuase the song has one of those fake ending things halfway though, where it sounds like the song is ending and freedy sings "of the woooooooorrrrllld"

Mona Lisa and the Monopoly Guy too though

[Withano]

I've heard of false-memory. Never heard of it be referred to the nelson Mandela effect. It's pretty common and pretty interesting. Like being sure you saw your phone on your bedside table, and then convincing yourself that it was the last place you saw it, and then after a while creating a vivid mental image of this despite it not being real, cos it will show up somewhere else.

[Vanessa]

:suspect:

[UserSince2005]

or when you remember someone messaging you, and then you think oh i better message that person back and then when you come to look at the messages you were the last person to send a message.

[Babayaro.]

Which buzzfeed article did you get this from?

[lewis111]

I don't necessarily believe it but I do find it very interesting and watched many videos on it
I'm quite shocked by the lack of people of heave heard of it, probably the biggest conspiracy theory of 2016, like Avril being dead is of 2017

[MTVN]

So under this theory there's these parallel universes and the main things they highlight that are different are Queen lyrics and the title of cartoons :think:

[Josy]

What if the "The Mandela effect" memory is actually the product of "The Mandela effect" though

http://i63.tinypic.com/11m9e1f.png

[UserSince2005]

im remembering a nelson mandela song that had a cool little dancy jig to it.
the lyrics were just nelson mandela over and over.
cant remember what it was from, some comedy show possibly.
or maybe its just the nelson mandela effect.

[Livia]

Mandella did die in prison... Morgan Freeman secretly played him in order to dupe South Sfrica into ending apartheid. I thought everyone knew...

[Niamh.]

Just bumping this old thread because I found an article with a few different ones on it (some of the same ones from the article in the OP too) There's a few I thought too on this one

The Dorian Grey one
The Bruce Springsteen one
The Tinker bell One
The Mickey Mouse one
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
The Pikachu one
The C3PO one (although I probably just didn't notice his leg was silver)
The Shaggy One

https://techytwist.com/mind-boggling-examples-of-the-mandela-effect-is/45/

[bots]

When you don't fully concentrate on something, the brain auto completes it for you. Sometimes it's right and sometimes it's wrong. That's all this is :laugh:

[Niamh.]

When you don't fully concentrate on something, the brain auto completes it for you. Sometimes it's right and sometimes it's wrong. That's all this is :laugh:

The Tinker bell one is odd though, that's a whole sequence of something she did.