The Mandela Effect

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Sometimes, many people seem to have the same memories of something that didn't ever happen, like Nelson Mandela dying in prison years ago, or Billy Graham being dead for several years now.
Those of us who remember these things seem to have a lot of similar memories about what happened, which should not be unless it was many people seeing the same events happening.
Sometimes, these discrepancies seem to happen only in our own lives, and can be as simple as a pen or set of keys vanishing, and then reappearing again either in an odd place, or sometimes, right where we have been looking for them the last 3 days. There are cars that disappear, or even turn into a different vehicle altogether.
I remember that one happening to me, as well.
I was driving alone down a strange road, and it was dark. The car came up behind me and followed me through several turns, and I was beginning to be afraid that it was something sinister. Then, I looked up again into the rear view mirror, and the car was just gone. No side roads. No headlights turning into a driveway, or pulling off the road. Just gone.

There are so many people who remember Mandela dying in prison that it has a name: The Mandela Effect. I am adding a link that has not only posts from people who remember about Mandela and Billy Graham dying; but also people who remember other well-known people who have been thought to have died, and didn't.
One person asked the question of whether anyone who had these other memories had ever had a near death experience.
I thnk that this is possible in my case, and maybe even more than once. In 1991 , I was in a horrific car crash that should have killed me, or at least mangled me beyond recognition.
I remember being totally amazed that I WAS still alive, because I thought I was dying right then, too. However, I walked away from that crushed up mess of a Yugo, and with not much more than a sore back and neck.
Afterwards, I remember wondering if I had actually died in that wreck, and was now somehow into another timeline where I didn't die.
Or, maybe I was really dead, and now just thought that I was still alive. It was a very strange feeling, and lasted for quite a while after the accident.

Has anyone else ever had this kind of a memory and then found out it was not true ?
Just this morning, my husband and I were talking and he mentioned Jane Goodall, and that she had been dead for several years now. I remembered she had made some television ads; so I looked her up on Wickipedia, and she is 81, but still alive.
When I looked up more information, I discovered that this kind of thing is fairly common.

http://mandelaeffect.com/major-memories
 

Here is an interesting picture of a globe, and it shows New Zealand on the other side of Australia from where it should be. What we call the Mandela effect really has nothing to do with him specifically, and everything to do with the possibility of there being different co-existing timelines in the universe.
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My mother died some years ago and my sister distinctly remembers her having a certain pattern of flatware. When I shipped her what I thought she was referring to (the only flatware Mother had) she called me—furious, insisting I had sent something else, and demanding I ship the flatware she remembered. There wasn’t anything else to send. She’s still bitter and also still convinced I deliberately sent the wrong thing.
 
The Mandela Effect

Has anyone else ever had this kind of a memory and then found out it was not true ?
This thread had remained buried for over 2 years until today, glad it got unearthed because it's an interesting topic that didn't get much response initially.

Yes, I've had many remembrances that were shockingly false. In the Criminal Justice system eye witness testimony used to be considered "gold", and infallible. Nope, not so much, studies have illustrated how memory is shaped and interpreted by a person's whole belief system, attitudes emotional reactions and such. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

**slightly off topic**
Sometimes when google-searching for information on a public figure there will be "click bait" results suggesting that so-in-so celebrity has died, or has had something horrible happened to them.
 
This thread had remained buried for over 2 years until today, glad it got unearthed because it's an interesting topic that didn't get much response initially.

Yes, I've had many remembrances that were shockingly false. In the Criminal Justice system eye witness testimony used to be considered "gold", and infallible. Nope, not so much, studies have illustrated how memory is shaped and interpreted by a person's whole belief system, attitudes emotional reactions and such. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

**slightly off topic**
Sometimes when google-searching for information on a public figure there will be "click bait" results suggesting that so-in-so celebrity has died, or has had something horrible happened to them.
or you can check out "Witness for the Defense" (book) by Elizabeth Loftus. fascinating.. and accurate. The last I heard, she was this country's leading memory expert.

I also encountered the topic in a work project awhile back... a jewelry store was robbed, and 3 people who were present were chosen as potential eye-witnesses.. with some info, including background info on each, the project involved deciding which would be best, second best, and least as eye-witnesses, along with the reasons.
 
Time for another revisit? (Or did we already revisit, but the timeline has been altered?)

Possible explanations--alternate timelines, false memories, confabulation, priming, mis-leading post event information in the news media.

Some of my favorites: Berenstein Bears or Berenstain Bears; Oscar Mayer wieners or Oscar Meyer wieners; a Shazaam movie in the 1990's or not; magic mirror on the wall or mirror, mirror on the wall; the original Mickey Mouse wearing suspenders or not?

There are dozens of others! :unsure:
 

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