The Mandela Effect is a recently identified phenomenon; in
fact research into it can only be traced back to 2010 and the pioneering
website of Fiona Broome. She became interested when she noticed people talking
about how they remember things differently to how they actually are recorded in
historical records. There is a common error of memory that psychologists call confabulation and everybody experiences it
from time to time. You might recall somebody you knew many years ago and
haven't seen since; and when you're shown a photograph of them from that same
era, they don't resemble your mental image at all. The difference with the
Mandela Effect is that large numbers of unconnected people are afflicted by the
same misremembrance. The most obvious anomaly refers to Nelson Mandela, the political
activist and former president of South Africa ;
hence the name of the effect. As far as I'm concerned, and most people are, Mandela
actually died in 2013, indeed I wrote an obituary to him, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/nelson-mandela-dies.html;
but a surprisingly large number of people say they remember Mandela dying in
prison in 1986. They have no doubt that they saw news items on TV, newspaper
articles and other information at the time, and they recall the incident in
detail. If they are mistaken, why are they all mistaken in the same way? I only
started looking into the matter in depth a few days ago when somebody wrote to
me and told me how they used to watch the Looney
Tunes cartoon shorts on TV when they were children. Indeed, I did too and I
loved them; characters like Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and Porky Pig. I remember
them very well. However I distinctly recall that they were called "Looney
Toons", not "Tunes". This is a very clear recollection because
the titles of the shorts were in a standardized style with the same theme
music. I even made this observation as an adult when I watched the 1990's TV
comedy Bottom in which one of the
characters insults the other by calling him a "looney tune". This was
many years before I gained a serious interest in the paranormal. After receiving
this letter I went and double-checked. Sure enough, the series is called Looney Tunes. It ran for twenty-nine
years, from 1930 to 69, and was always called Looney Tunes. I was astounded. Not only do I have a memory that I
really shouldn't have, but other people have the same memory as well. This is just
one example; see the website for many others: http://mandelaeffect.com/about/. At
some point a skeptic is going to yell "coincidence!" like they always
do, but how realistic is that? (Skeptics themselves don't understand this
endemic fallacy of theirs, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/pan-pareidolia.html)
There has to be more to the Mandela Effect than that. It could be that it is an
artefact of the collective unconscious as theorized the psychologist Carl Jung.
The same concept could be behind the "hundredth monkey effect", see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/lyall-watson.html.
Another possibility is that people who experience the Mandela Effect are
literally moving between different worlds, slipping into parallel universes
within the "multiverse". If so, why has the Mandela Effect become
more noticeable only within the last few years? Possibly because it is only now
that it's being defined properly by Fiona Broome and others; but could it perhaps
be also because the structure of our universe has physically changed? If so
then what has caused that change? What force could be powerful enough to alter
the very fabric of reality? To undermine the foundations of space-time
causality?... Regular readers will guess where I'm going with this... The answer
is, of course, CERN. See background links below for my detailed discussions
about the Large Hadron Collider, what it is capable of and what its real
purpose might be. Also Kev Baker has covered this in his radio shows, for
example see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVCzq0TwQI0.
This is disturbing news. Does it mean that I can no longer be certain of my own
past, at least from the point of view of whatever dimension I'm in? Still, I
might as well look on the bright side. I might be lucky enough to slip into a universe
in which Prof. Brian Cox was never born.
See here for
background: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/cern-progress-or-apocalypse.html.
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