Have you ever had a false memory?
 

So I was watching YouTube last night and they were talking about the mandela effect where people thought he died in the 1980s when in reality he died in 2013 so just wondering whether anyone here has had a false memory before?

I’ve had weird things where I have deja vu in my dreams for things I’ve literally never done before but that’s it rly

I used to dream that I had sweets in my school bag and i would wake up and go look


to no avail

:bawling:

That's fascinating alright, that Mandela thing. The Monopoly guy :fist:

wait, Madiba is...dead?


:omgno:


Cheggers and now this

Why God, WHY??

:bawling:

Luke!I am your father....




It’s all CERN’s fault for colliding our universe into another parallel one :laugh:

I'm skeptical about the Star Wars one, I've never heard of people remembering it as "Like, I am your father"... In fact most people surely just quote / remember the "I am your father" part?

My wife is from the "Mandela died in prison!" universe though, she says she remembers learning about it in primary school clear as day... And both of her parents insist they actually remember it happening in the 80's :think:.

I have memories of being happy. But I have never ever been happy in my life.

:(

I know he died long before the 80s, but I think people tend to mix Mandela up with Gandhi in a "didn't he die a very long time ago and we learned about him in history?" kind of way.

I dunno, people specifically seem to remember him dying in prison :think:. Like it was (supposedly) a huge news story, the injustice of him dying before being released, etc.

STUPID people.

From a guy with a similar-sounding name to Luke, there are at least 300 people in my area who remember "Luke, I am your father"

Did I just enter the twilight zone :umm2: :conf: , why do people have a false memory of Mandela dying in prison in the 80's ?? .

My friend has false memories that he swears are true even if others were there and know that something else happened. He thinks others have bad memory even if it's two or more of us that were also there telling him that didn't happen. :skull:

Many people have the exact same memory, and nobody can really explain why (apart from conspiracy theorists) there are other examples like it - where thousands of people distinctly remember the exact same thig that never happened

:shocked::puzzled: But that makes no sense , I'm guessing this is older people that have this memory?? . Really bizarre and I've never heard of it . I wonder what their brain did when it got to 2013 when Mandela ACTUALLY died then ?? very peculiar .

It doesnt make sense at all! But I have no idea, I wasn't around in the 80s.

But that Youtube video did make a point about the Snow White quote not being "mirror mirror on the wall", the Monopoly man never wearing a monocle, and Pikachu from Pokemon never having a black tip at the end of his tail, so I guess I've had a load of these Mandela-effect-typed memories too! I just cant get my head around me being wrong either, cos I can picture it all so clearly!

my flatmate Will is a lying little bastard, he eats my food and then claims it was his, no it ****ing wasn’t, he doesn’t even get a meateor from dominos

How on earth would you know it was false?

It's shared false memories like the ones in the video posted

When it's proven false.

Some people are wrong about a lot of things... some of those are very easily explained away. I remember there being talk of Mother Theresa being given a sainthood while she was alive too, it doesn't mean she was that was just when the discussion began about it across the world.
There was a report released in relation to Tiananmen sq recently, he was ran over, many people were... :(

Mispronunciations aren't false memories either, if your parents read a story say about karren the cat and your friend has the same book but your mum pronounces it 'car''ren' and hers 'ka' 'ren' yours isn't a false memory is it?
It's a similar concept.

I have only had one such experience, and that's with smarties... are orange smarties orange chocolate? some say yes and some no the makers say no.

BUT THEY ARE LYING!

What about Mirror, Mirror on the wall though? :o

I still don't see it as a 'false memory' you just got something wrong and so did some other people :/

'Challenger exploded in 86, oh, I thought it was 84? yep so did I ...no, it was 86, oh. ok'

But Challenger did launch three times in 84, maybe the memories were of one of these launches?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger

My one is ****ing "Tom Toms", the ketchup-filled chicken nuggets that got banned because the filling got so hot and spurted out at people. I remember them clearly, and remember the advert for them clearly, but pretty much no one else except my sister remembers them... and google knows nothing about them either. But I'm sure I brought this up a couple of years ago, and someone else remembered them too :joker:.

If you remember something incorrectly, it's a false memory.

Aren't Tom Toms ketchup flavoured crisps in the shape of balls? :think:

Edit - Or rather, Tangy Toms

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...lpGxwZ9X-KNfTr

No, they were like tiny round kievs but full of ketchup...

Well then the thread would be 'have you ever got anything wrong'?... and flip, haven't we all... well, haven't YOU all? I haven't :idc:

I mean, its more of a phenomenom, that several thousand people share the same false memory of something. Like people dont incorrectly remember the monopoly guy wearing a yellow suit, but several thousand remember him wearing a monocle.. why?

I think it means an actual vivid memory you have of something, that even after discovering it's false you can't believe it as you remember differently.

Like us going to a party 2 years ago and I vividly remember you wearing a blue dress. I saw it and I remember it. Then you show me a photo and you were actually wearing a white dress. False memory. :smug:

:o

A mix of these?

No that was just you eyeing up someone else... that's why we ended up in couples therapy remember!?

Google has no idea what the 'fear the monocle' sidegame is.. are you sure that isnt just fanart haha? Theres a lot of fanart of him in the monocle because of the mandela effect now

Edit: it is fanart, https://edgyart.wordpress.com/portfo...r-the-monocle/

:think: Omg, it was Livia in the blue dress.

I was actually going to suggest people are thinking of the Pringles logo, but he doesn't have a monocle either. :worry:

I used to swear blind Carol Vorderman used to turn round the letters on Wheel of Fortune because I'd absolutely seen her doing so when I was much younger, eventually I realised I must have seen her on Countdown putting up the letters and thought it was Wheel of Fortune,but my recollections always had her in front of the Wheel of Fortune board :laugh:

That was Carol Smiley I think.