The Mandela Effect all started with the discovery of a large number of people sharing collective false memories of past events. A blogger, Fiona Broome, used this term to describe a false memory about Nelson Mandela. Thousands of people claim they remember mourning Nelson Mandela’s death and seeing his funeral on TV. Mandela allegedly died in prison during the 1980s; in reality, he died on December 5, 2013, due to respiratory tract infection. The Mandela Effect causes our minds to latch onto easy phrases and adds details that never occurred.
Sometimes when we recall old events, we create details that never truly happened. A doctoral candidate in neuroscience, Caitlin Aamodt, wrote an article, “On shared false memories: what lies behind the Mandela effect”. about her …show more content…
Steven Novella, an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine, wrote an article, published on the NeuroLogicaBlog. He found out our memories tend to combine easier-to-say phrases. According to his research, “Many people share these false memories simply because we have similar brains that tend to make similar mistakes. This is also partly how language evolves- phrases and words tend to get shortened, simplified, and easier to say.” Examples that support his claim can be found in songs and movies. A popular song by Queen, We Are The Champions, ends with the words, “cause we are the champions”. Many remember the last lyrics as, “of the world”. This strange occurrence is because, “of the world” is sung twice during the song, but not at the ending. Another false memory is from the galactic Star Wars.Darth Vader says to his son, “No, I am your father.” A popular false memory is when Darth Vader apparently says, “Luke, I am your father.” In the famous movie, Forrest Gump, the lead character says, “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates.” People think the quote is, “My mom always said life is like a box of chocolates.” This may happen due to Tom Hanks’s
Sometimes when we recall old events, we create details that never truly happened. A doctoral candidate in neuroscience, Caitlin Aamodt, wrote an article, “On shared false memories: what lies behind the Mandela effect”. about her …show more content…
Steven Novella, an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine, wrote an article, published on the NeuroLogicaBlog. He found out our memories tend to combine easier-to-say phrases. According to his research, “Many people share these false memories simply because we have similar brains that tend to make similar mistakes. This is also partly how language evolves- phrases and words tend to get shortened, simplified, and easier to say.” Examples that support his claim can be found in songs and movies. A popular song by Queen, We Are The Champions, ends with the words, “cause we are the champions”. Many remember the last lyrics as, “of the world”. This strange occurrence is because, “of the world” is sung twice during the song, but not at the ending. Another false memory is from the galactic Star Wars.Darth Vader says to his son, “No, I am your father.” A popular false memory is when Darth Vader apparently says, “Luke, I am your father.” In the famous movie, Forrest Gump, the lead character says, “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates.” People think the quote is, “My mom always said life is like a box of chocolates.” This may happen due to Tom Hanks’s