The Mandela Effect is a term given to blatant anomalies in which people’s memory of a particular historical fact, persons, event, or occurrence validate with each other but diverge from what has happened in reality. This phenomenon was named, ‘The Mandela Effect,’ which came from the first supposedly false memory a large group of people had, which was that Nelson Mandela had died in the prison he was in during the 1980s (Aamodt).
When news of Nelson Mandela’s death hit the media on December 5th, 2013, it shocked many people to hear that name again. Many people claim that they remember reading in their history textbooks that he had died in prison and some even remembered attending his funeral (Hyduke). Although this is just a theory as of right
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This theory states that there is not just one universe, but an infinite amount of them. These many other universes are referred to as, ‘alternate realities,’ most commonly (Hyduke). Then, as something changes in our timeline we move to an alternate reality with the change and that object morphs to adjust to this new change. This could explain why there are no textbooks that say Nelson Mandela died in prison, which is evidence of an object morphing to fit its new timeline. Although many people claim to remember memories of an event or person with zero doubt, there is still some criticisms. A criticism of the Mandela effect is that the memories people have are actually just false memories. Over time, memories can become tainted and clouded. The brain can easily confuse and mix things up more easily as more time passes and this may cause people to believe they remember a particular event that happened perfectly, but in reality they are not remembering correctly (Hyduke). People generally will tend to believe their version of an event is right even when they have many factors opposed against them. They will stick with their memory until proven with no uncertainty that they were