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What are your experiences with the Mandela Effect? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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See title. For those who don’t know, the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large group of people remember something differently than how it occurred. It’s named after Nelson Mandela because a significant number of people remembered him dying in prison in the 1980s, even though he actually passed away in 2013.

I’m curious to hear about your personal experiences with this phenomenon. Have you ever remembered an event, fact, or detail that turned out to be different from reality? What was it and how did you react when you found out your memory didn’t align with the facts? Does it happen often?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Who the fuck remembers Mandela dying in prison??? The man was resilience itself!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

Like 12 idiots on the Internet who then decided to never shut the fuck up about it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I know!

He was constantly in the papers in the 1990s, major figure, every mac madra knew he was alive, where do they get this shite.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Probably confusion with Steve Biko explains it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

US History doesn't like to focus on men like him