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Merged The MANDELA Effect.

the phenomenon deserves more research.

After all, it is weird that a sizeable number of people belief that Trump won the 2016 election.

Imagine that !
 
theprestige said:
The headline implies that the phenomenon cannot be scientifically explained.

The truth is that scientists simply haven't bothered to do much research yet, so don't yet have a ready explanation.
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Many seem trivial to explain. Bernstein has the much more familiar ending than "stain". Sketches of guys in top hats and tails are often depicted with monacles. Han shot first unless Greedo was a piss poor shot at point blank range.
 
The fact it's called The Mandela Effect explains a lot of the problem. People confused Stephen Biko with Nelson Madela. It's that simple. The funeral described is Biko's. You have three things at play with this, the degradation of long-term memory, the painfully casual knowledge of white Americans and Europeans of world events during the 1980s, and CNN reporters not smart enough to point out historical facts.

And for many white people, black folks all look alike, and in their heads they only know who Nelson Mandela was, and really should know who Steve Biko was, but don't.

We just passed another 9-11 anniversary, and every American has their "9-11 Story", like their, 'Where I was when JFK was killed", or "Where I was when I heard the Challenger exploded". I have my 9-11 story too, which I'll spare you from, but it was almost a decade before I realized a key component of my 9-11 story was wrong. I believed I saw the whole thing live on TV, but I live on the west coast, and woke up at 09:15PST, and by that time both towers were already down. A decade passed until I realized all I'd seen were replays of the towers coming down.

People misremember things. Memories themselves evolve over time. None of this is new information.
 
The example that actually effects me is in the movie Moonraker, when Jaws, and a young blonde girl with braces, meet, they look at each other, Jaws smiles revealing his metal teeth, and she smiles back at him, revealing her braces. They instantly fall in love and run off together.

It was the most memorable part of a bad movie, I saw it at the drive-in with my family when I was a kid.

However, I no longer can find any edit of the film that says the girl had braces.
BUT THAT'S WHY THEY FELL IN LOVE! THEY BOTH HAD BRACES. IT WAS IN THE MOVIE.
 
Thermal said:
Many seem trivial to explain. Bernstein has the much more familiar ending than "stain". Sketches of guys in top hats and tails are often depicted with monacles. Han shot first unless Greedo was a piss poor shot at point blank range.
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This, its really quite astounding that someone think, "I don't remember it happening that way, I must be in an alternate reality" rather than, "I guess I remember it wrong."
 
Drewbot said:
The example that actually effects me is in the movie Moonraker, when Jaws, and a young blonde girl with braces, meet, they look at each other, Jaws smiles revealing his metal teeth, and she smiles back at him, revealing her braces. They instantly fall in love and run off together.

It was the most memorable part of a bad movie, I saw it at the drive-in with my family when I was a kid.

However, I no longer can find any edit of the film that says the girl had braces.
BUT THAT'S WHY THEY FELL IN LOVE! THEY BOTH HAD BRACES. IT WAS IN THE MOVIE.
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Can't think of ANY other reasons (or two) that he might have found her appealing?

https://bondscenes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Dolly.jpg
 
Thermal said:
Many seem trivial to explain. Bernstein has the much more familiar ending than "stain". Sketches of guys in top hats and tails are often depicted with monacles. Han shot first unless Greedo was a piss poor shot at point blank range.
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Huh. I could've sworn the words were " Berenstain" and "monocles." Funny old thing, memory.
 
“With the Mandela Effect, people are often remembering things the way they think they should be rather than they actually are — because we just process things very quickly in everyday life.”

Problem solved.
 
Paranormal researcher Fiona Broome coined the name in 2009 after becoming convinced that then-South African President Nelson Mandela had died in prison in the 1980s.
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I almost disregarded the article right there, but just because one of those coined the term it doesn't mean it's not valid.
 
William Parcher said:
The ‘Mandela Effect’ describes the false memories many of us share. But why can’t scientists explain it?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/world/mandela-effect-collective-false-memory-scn
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Haven''t read beyond the very short OP, not even the link TBH. Will later, I'd heard of this actually, and find this interesting. This obvious point may have been raised already, and indeed that might have been the whole point of OP's tongue in cheek wording (or not, I don't know, basis just the OP), but: That scientists "can't" explain this, might that itself be an example of the Mandela effect?

It could be they already have. It could be they haven't even tried, so far, not rigorously, to explain it. "Can't" implies this is a problem they've grappled with, but haven't managed to nail it yet. Is that actually true?

Also, isn't this the same as urban legends?
 
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