Mandela effect

English Etymology en Q62946784 2009 1 in reference to a false memory she had of South African leader Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) dying in the 1980s that other people reportedly shared.Neil Dagnall & Ken Drinkwater, "The Mandela effect: Explaining the science behind false memories", The Independent, 15 February 2018Austin Schoonmaker, "What is the Mandela Effect?", San Diego Entertainer Magazine, 20 October 2019 Noun The phenomenon of a large number of persons independently sharing the same false memory. en 2021 Rizwan Virk The Simulated Multiverse: An MIT Computer Scientist Explores Parallel Universes, The Simulation Hypothesis, Quantum Computing and the Mandela Effect Bayview Books https://books.google.com/books?id=Vq9HEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP38&dq=%22Mandela+effects%22&hl=&cd=4&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Mandela%20effects%22&f=false 9781954872011 It's easier to understand the scope of the Mandela effect and to come up with explanations for individual effects by taking a bird's-eye view of the landscape. en w:Chuck Klosterman The Nineties (book) The Nineties 2022 Penguin Press New York 978-0-7352-1795-9 The subsistence and mass identification of phenomena like the Mandela Effect could only come to fruition in the Internet Age. Without the internet, there would be no universal platform to academically discuss a concept so daft, nor would there be any way to efficiently and convincingly disprove so many disparate memory errors. Yet the content of the Mandela Effect—the objects and ideas that people misremember—is almost entirely tied to the era just before the internet became common. weekend Tim Harford 2024-05-25 The detours on memory lane Life & Arts 21 When Broome discovered that she was not the only person to remember an alternative version of events, she started a website about what she dubbed “the Mandela Effect”. Translations phenomenon of sharing false memory Arabic: ar تَأْثِير مَانْدَيلَا m taʔṯīr māndēlā Chinese: Cantonese: yue 孟加拉效應 Mandarin: cmn 曼德拉效應 French: fr effet Mandela m Italian: it effetto Mandela m Japanese: ja マンデラ効果 Mandera kōka, ja マンデラエフェクト Mandera efekuto Korean: ko 만델라 효과, ko 만델라 이펙트 Portuguese: pt efeito Mandela m Spanish: es efecto Mandela m See also en counterfactual References en eponyms en Memory