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I had a family member explain the Mandela effect to me yesteday in the most unique way. The Mandela effect has seen enough treatments in the media about how we remember things different from what actually happened. For example, Nelson Mandela’s release from prison being farther in the future than many remembered, or what exactly did Darth Vader say to Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back.
I didn’t get an explanation of the Mandela Effect or a clear list of Mandela Effect moments, I received something much better. I was told that the Mandela Effect occurred because of a new timeline that was created after the particle accelerators began their work. In light of this information, we are truly living in a multiverse.
I am not going to speculate further on this conversation, I find it both interesting and disappointing that these ideas are spread. We, as a thinking species, seem to want these fantastical answers instead of the simple ones. For example, the simple explanation that our memories are fallible and that hearing fallible memories repeated over and over solidify these incorrect ideas in our long term memory. These ideas become so solidified that we have the Mandela Effect, or people in a family arguing over exactly what happened at an event.
