Is it Looney Toons or Looney Tunes? Is it Kit-Kat or KitKat?
These are some examples of The Mandela Effect. The Mandela Effect can be described as false memories. In simpler words, it involves misinterpreted or distorted memories or experiencing something that never occurred in reality. It's like being convinced of a certain memory only to discover that you have remembered it entirely wrong!
The Mandela Effect is also considered as a collective misremembering of an event. A paranormal researcher named Fiona Broome coined the term when countless internet users believed that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. However, Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990 and died in the year 2013.
But could there be a chance that reality could be changing in many ways that we can never understand? Is it possible that every time the fabric of time and space changes, it messes with reality?
So, is the Mandela Effect just bad memories or a hint towards the possibility of alternate universes?
False memories?
In 2013, Nelson Mandela passed away, and people mourned for the hero across the world. The great leader's death wasn't unexpected entirely. He was 95-years old and was ill for some time. However, to some, the news was shocking because they were convinced that Nelson Mandela died more than 30 years ago when he was in prison.
With time, more people expressed the feeling of shock, and they were not just in hundreds but in thousands. Soon, the internet was divided into two groups - one group of people believed that Mandela passed away in 2013, and the other was still arguing that he died decades ago.
It was not the only time when people misremembered a historical event, but it was the most popular one. The event of Nelson Mandela's passing gave name to this alleged phenomenon - The Mandela Effect.
There were more examples that started to surface. One of them was the Challenger disaster. The space shuttle disaster occurred in 1986, but many people believe without a hint of doubt that it happened three years earlier, in the year 1983.
A man, known popularly as the Tank Man, who stood in front of many armored tanks in the year 1989 in Tiananmen Square, was shooed away by policemen. However, many swear to know that he was run over by the first tank.
Mother Teresa is known to be canonized as a saint in September 2016. Many people claimed that the event happened just before she passed away in the year 1997.
These anomalies are not limited to major and prominent events only. They are believed to happen in subtle ways as well.
Some of such anomalies and changes were in scripts of movies too. For example, many people remember the famous scene from Disney's Snow White where the evil queen says, 'Mirror, mirror on the wall..' but everywhere it has always been as 'Magic mirror on the wall..'
In the Tom Hanks movie Forrest Gump, many would remember Forrest quoting, 'My mom always said life is like a box of chocolates..' However, in reality, it is 'My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates..'
The Star Wars fans still quote the popular Darth Vader dialogue as 'Luke, I am your father' However, Darth Vader actually said, 'No, I am your father.' In a documentary film on Star Wars, even Earl Jones quotes the popular dialogue in an interview as, 'Luke, I am your father.'
Why are there such massive inconsistencies in our memories? How can millions of people remember certain things differently than the other millions? Why does the Mandela Effect happen? Or does it even happen at all?
This is when the theories of alternate realities, changing of realities, and other bizarre theories come in. Can the M theory explain it?
The M Theory
According to the M theory, there are uncountable universes stacked together closely. Imagine a loaf of bread and the slices as different universes or realities. Think of the slices as realities, and the closer a slice (a reality) is to the next slice, the more alike both slices or realities are.
So one of the most popular and accepted theories is that our universe sometimes moves so close to the neighboring reality that it creates a bridge, and people unknowingly cross from one universe or reality to the next.
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Now take the example of Nelson Mandela and imagine he died in the neighboring universe in prison in the 1980s, and people who unknowingly crossed over carried that memory and were shocked to know that Mandela passed away in 2013.
Some physicists stated that if the M theory has any truth in its theories, then it is plausible. There are well-documented cases where a visitor from another reality accidentally arrived in our reality, like the 'The man from Taured.'
The idea of traveling through time and realities has always fascinated humans, and it continues to fascinate us. Many believe it's true, and there are popular stories of time-slips or people stuck in time-loops.
Although we cannot prove any of those events, some believe that humans have cracked the secret of time-traveling or visiting alternate realities, but they keep them as secrets.
Many conspiracy theorists even claimed that there is a group of highly intelligent people who keep these secrets to themselves and sometimes change details in history to serve a greater purpose.
Or does the Mandela Effect happen inside our brain?
It is a proven fact that every time our brain recalls an event, it subtracts and adds particular details. With time, we register the details and start believing that a particular event happened in the way we think, even if it happened just the opposite.
What do you think?
Our memories can certainly be modified by our brain, but it's usually with those events or instances that we have experienced, heard, or seen just once or twice. So, is it possible for our brain to alter the memory of something that is big and we have experienced or seen more than twice?
Can thousands of human brains alter or modify the same information like the death of a global hero like Nelson Mandela or the popular dialogues of iconic movies or a fan-favorite character?
It is a very interesting question.
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