Nelson Mandela syndrome. The Mandela effect, or memories from a parallel reality

The Mandela effect is a phenomenon that is possible evidence of the presence of holes in the Matrix, as well as the existence of parallel worlds and the multiverse. The concept of pattern breaking is also closely associated with this phenomenon.

In simple terms, this phenomenon manifests itself in the appearance in several people of similar, even identical, false memories of events that happened in the past.

Origin of the name and history

The Mandela Effect was discovered at the Dragon Con fan convention, during a conversation between several of its participants. Suddenly, during the conversation, it became clear that they all had a strange memory. Allegedly, Nelson Rolilahla Mandela - a South African statesman and political figure, as well as a former one - died in prison back in the 80s. In reality, of course, everything was not like that. Mandela emerged from prison, built a political career and died in 2013 at the age of 95.

How did it happen that amazingly accurate false memories related to the same topic arose in the minds of completely different people? No one knows. But there are assumptions. Allegedly, the images of two characters are mixed in the mass consciousness - Nelson and Stephen Biko, who was a famous fighter for the rights of South Africans and fell victim to the police.

But then, after one of the participants in this congress began to popularize the Mandela effect, stories about other similar cases began to appear. It turned out that there are enough cases of coinciding alternative memories in practice.

Manifestation of the effect

So what's the point? The Mandela effect manifests itself as follows: suddenly a certain number of people (usually a large number) suddenly remember a certain phenomenon that took place in the past, in their opinion. They describe the details in the same way and even claim that they remember everything as if it happened yesterday.

But in fact, as it later turns out, nothing like that happened. The event that a whole group of people remembers was completely different. Or perhaps such a thing did not exist at all. The result is massive internal dissonance.

Experiment

In fact, the phenomenon in question is a phenomenon. Many people are skeptical about it, especially scientists. Swiss scientists even conducted an experiment to find out whether there is a connection between the formation of false memories and sleep disorders.

Several people were invited and given the task of learning a certain number of words related to a particular concept. For example, the nouns “night”, “dark”, “cat” relate to the adjective “black”. But it is not in the list of words.

So, the people were divided into two groups and told to go to bed. While they were basking in the arms of Morpheus, the lists of words were edited and replenished with new ones.

Participants in one group were then abruptly awakened and shown updated versions of the lists. The task was to name the words that were present in them initially. The awakened participants made many mistakes. Many of them unanimously argued that some new words were on the lists from the very beginning. But those people who woke up on their own made practically no mistakes. Therefore, scientists concluded: sleep disturbances may indeed be the reason why false memories appear.

By the way, a little later they conducted a similar experiment, but with an “addition”. Participants in one group were still woken up, but were immediately given coffee or water. People who drank the invigorating drink made 10% fewer mistakes. Based on this, another conclusion was made: caffeine has a positive effect on the brain, which is responsible for the selection of concepts. She is very susceptible to poor, low-quality sleep.

About parallel worlds and glitches in the Matrix

Many people try to explain the Mandela effect. This is a controversial phenomenon, of course, and they try to argue for it in different ways.

The first option is anti-scientific. Its supporters believe that the notorious effect is the result of people moving between parallel worlds. Allegedly, there are alternative realities that differ from ours. And at some moments they shift, and people fall into them without even noticing it.

You can often hear a version similar to the previous one: there are alternative timelines, and they overlap each other, uniting into one reality.

The second option is pseudoscientific. Its adherents, studying examples of the Mandela effect, assure: this is nothing more than the result of a glitch in the Matrix. Some people actually believe that our universe is a huge hologram. Therefore, failures in it are not surprising.

Logical-scientific explanation

In addition to the opinions mentioned, there is one more, which seems to many to be the most probable. They say the phenomenon in question is only the result of fuzzy memories. Or severely distorted. Everyone knows that people tend to embellish events that happened a long time ago and generously season them with non-existent details. This is especially true for children, because they see everything in a different light and remember everything more vividly than adults.

In general, all the memories that are fixed in the subconscious about early childhood are a continuous Mandela effect. Fact: there is such a thing as “infantile amnesia,” which means the loss of memories of the period when a person still reacted vividly to various kinds of impressions. But when he grows up, some fragments of memories about that time “float” in his brain. False, as a rule. They seem to come up on their own, and in hindsight.

And this is not a rare case. Many people who have experienced the effect in question turn to what happened to them in childhood. When they find video recordings from their early years and watch them, they automatically compare what is happening in the frame with the image of their memories. And they are surprised at how much information diverges.

Effect propagation and examples

The phenomenon began to multiply at an astonishing rate. It would seem - well, it just so happened that several people thought that Mandela died in prison, so what? And the fact that since that moment many anomalies have been recorded in not so long history.

By the way, he also reached the Russian-language segment, penetrating into old Soviet films, video parodies, and popular expressions. And there are several clear examples of the Mandela effect. These are obvious facts of replacement, considered by many people to be an outright mockery of the past. Here are just six sample ones:

• The most famous communist slogan. How to correctly finish the phrase “Proletarians of all countries...”? "Unite"? Or “connect”?
• Assassination of John Kennedy. Who was in the car with him? Three (wife, governor, driver) or five (wife, governor, driver and two security guards)?
• Nutella chocolate spread. Was there a two-color one with a white, spirally twisted layer? Or not?
• Human skull. Is there no bone behind the eye socket or is there one?
• Volkswagen emblem. Double "V" in a circle... with a break in the middle or solid?
• Ford emblem. Flat "F" or with a curl?

The vast majority of people will choose the first answer options with one hundred percent confidence. And... they will be wrong. Thus experiencing the Mandela effect.

Anatomy has changed! A bone has appeared behind the eye! Delicious 2-color Nutella with white chocolate, it turns out, never existed! Images and flags with the communist slogan suddenly changed from “Unite” to “Unite”. On the Ford emblem, the letter “F” appeared to have some kind of curl, and the double “V” on the Volkswagen logos was suddenly crossed out by a line.

Okay that's it. But the Kennedy assassination? There is a video on the Internet of that chilling moment. And there you can clearly see that there are 4 people sitting in the convertible. But why do all sources claim that there were two additional passenger seats where the above-mentioned persons sat?

Here it is, evidence of the Mandela effect! People who choose the first option are unlikely to find evidence of their truth in history, songs, books and videos. Only memory remembers them. But the reality around is completely different.

Or maybe it's just carelessness?

It's possible. But then it’s too massive. Many people whose goal is to expose the Mandela effect attribute everything to inattention.

After all, we do not store information in our heads that means nothing to us. The presence or absence of a curl in the logo? Who will focus on this?

Inconsistencies in literary works? Well, it is written in the novel “Eugene Onegin” not “Here is the north, driving up the clouds...”, but “Here is the wind, driving up the clouds...”, so what? Just a mistake made first when typing and then when publishing textbooks.

And people en masse simply remake some popular expressions into more harmonious and universal ones, without noticing it themselves. Everyone knows this dialogue from the film “The Hound of the Baskervilles”:

What is this, Barrymore?
- Oatmeal, sir!

So, the phrase sounds different. In fact, there is “Is this porridge or something?”, followed by the answer: “Oatmeal, sir!” Why did everyone completely remake it into the above-mentioned version and why did everyone get the same thing? Because the principles of people’s thinking are not very different, and what other variations of expression could there be in this case?

Conspiracy and zombies

In continuation of the discussion, I would also like to consider the following question: “What is the Mandela effect and who needs it?”

Many people believe that everything happens like this: one person invents this or that circumstance/detail, colorfully and even logically argues for what was said, and the rest pick it up. People who are new to the topic of discussion may cling to the option offered and accept it, so as not to bother themselves with a detailed study of the topic. As a result, the events in their heads are confused and mixed up, but no one pays attention to this. This is the story.

The Mandela effect can truly be considered a phenomenon of mass suggestion on the scale of an entire planet. That’s why many people remember other dates of famous events. People simply grabbed some facts from the words of their parents, who were told their own, who were not direct witnesses to what happened. What about other locations of continents and countries? This is not the Mandela effect - you just need to know the geography better.

What's the result? A real “damaged phone”. Something that easily distorts the essence of actually occurring phenomena. And everything would be fine, but there is a frightening moment. There are enough lovers of hysterical pseudology in our reality, and who knows, one day the gossip and myths they start will call history itself into question. It can all start with an innocent embellishment of events, and end with a complete rewrite.

Cases of mass delusion

In fact, there are many more examples of the Mandela effect. Taking into account all of the above, we can also call this a massive mistake, delusion, myth. Anyway, here are some more striking examples:

• Disney screensaver. How does she look? Many are sure that the fairy Tinkerbell from Peter Pan, flying over the castle, draws an arc with her magic wand and writes out the phrase: “Walt Disney,” dotting the i at the end. But no. The original screensaver looks like this: the fairy just touches the castle with her wand, which immediately explodes with sparks and is replaced by the name Walt Disney.
• A book about a rogue little fox with a long title: “Tutta Carlson the First and Only, Ludwig the Fourteenth, etc.” Who is its author? Astrid Lingren? Most people think so. But no. It turns out that it was written by Jan Ekholm.
• What did Darth Vader say at the climax of the famous saga? "Luke, I am your father"? Not at all. The hero says: “No, I am your father.” Because this phrase is a response to Luke’s cry: “It was you who killed my father!”
• Film "Prisoner of the Caucasus". What does one of the many phrases taken out of context sound like? “I’ll ask you not to express yourself in my house,” almost every respondent will answer. But no. In the original, the phrase sounds without “I’ll ask.”
• Film "The meeting place cannot be changed." There is a phrase that viewers remember in this version: “What a face you have, Sharapov!” In fact, the hero insulted his opponent not by his last name, but by his first name. At the end it’s not “Sharapov”, but “Volodya”.
• Adolf Gitler. In all portraits of the German Fuhrer, he is depicted with sky-blue eyes. But in fact, the Reich Chancellor had brown eyes.
• Haruki and Ryu Murakami. Famous ones are considered either siblings or cousins. This is not true, they are just namesakes.
• Alaska. Leased by Catherine II to the United States for 99 years. It's a lie. In fact, this peninsula was sold to the Americans by Alexander II in 1867. And for eternal use, and not for a while.
• Sculpture “The Thinker” by Auguste Rodin. How does the figure rest on the hand? Many will say that the forehead. But this is not so, “The Thinker” props up his chin, and not with his fist, but with the back of his hand. But if you look at numerous photographs of tourists, you can see that they are sitting next to the sculpture and... resting their forehead on their fist. And where did this image come from in the mass consciousness?

Paramnesia

Most people are of the opinion that there is no need to even debunk the Mandela Effect. Because any false memories, confusion of the present and the past, fictional and real events are simply disorders and memory impairments. That is paramnesia. Which is often characterized by a person’s overestimation of the influence of his own person on the outcome of certain events that happened once. In essence, paramnesia is a qualitative distortion of memory.

The concept of “phantasm” is also related to this topic. This term also refers to memory impairment. To a person with phantasms, it seems that some events that he invented or imagined actually happened. By the way, there is a small classification here. The following phantasms are distinguished:

• Hysterical. A person invents or embellishes a story, and after a while he himself believes that everything was as he made it up. This is not pathological deceit, which refers to the tendency to knowingly communicate false information. A person with hysterical phantasm is truly convinced that his “memories” are real. He sincerely believes in them.
• Paralytic. Phantasms that appear when a person has psychosis. Especially with progressive paralysis. Or against the background of euphoria, dementia. Unlike the Mandela effect, the concept of paramnesia was formulated and introduced into use back in 1906 by the scientist Theodore Ziehn. And even earlier, in 1886, the term “memory deceptions” appeared, the author of which was Emil Kraepelin.

Conclusion

There is much more to be said about the Mandela Effect. There are people who aggressively insist that this is an absolutely unscientific phenomenon, which even in theory has no right to exist. Others delve with interest into studying this topic and searching for examples, and discover that there really is something strange and mystical about it.

Be that as it may, such incidents have occurred in the lives of most people. Some attribute them to déjà vu, sleep paralysis, fatigue, inattention, and brain failure. And others prefer to see behind phenomena unknown to them a mystery and a riddle that goes far beyond the usual and rational.

Have you heard of the so-called "Mandela effect"?
The topic has been discussed in the West for a long time, but especially intensely recently.
In the Russian-speaking environment, everything is just beginning.
At first glance, the M. Effect is a cheap sensation of the sort flat earth or world - computer game. However, the thing is that the evidence of the phenomenon is in sight (and hearing) for everyone; you just need to turn to your own memory.
Before we throw the idea in the trash, let's try to figure it out.
In fact, it’s wildly interesting, and at times even scary.

The world has changed.

All wrong. Something happened. It seems like something irreversible.
It seems we all found ourselves in a parallel reality without noticing it!
It all started with the death of Nelson Mandela in 2013. It turned out that many “remembered” (we are talking about thousands of people) that the fiery fighter against apartheid was already dying in the mid-80s. The Internet was flooded with questions and complaints. This effect false memory called the "Mandela effect".
Pandora's box was opened and people were amazed to find inconsistency the world that was in their minds and the one that surrounds them.

Video for quick reference:

People massively remember things that never happened!
Or rather, what WAS suddenly disappeared somewhere. From reality disappeared many details that we all knew very well, that surrounded us all our lives.
Famous movie lines now sound different. Logos of famous companies have been slightly changed.
Extra letters have been added to the names of all well-known brands, or replaced with similar-sounding ones. It turns out that celebrity names are not written like that anymore. Moreover, some famous people who died in the past are still alive and well. Even the paintings of great artists have undergone changes.

This is some kind of nonsense.
Mystic.
Mass hypnosis.

There are plenty of examples. I will go into more detail on them in my subsequent posts. For now, google it and see for yourself.

I’ll say right away that, in my critical opinion, many of the facts cited on the Internet look unconvincing. Many phrases from cult films are far-fetched.

Luke, I am your father,
I'm tired, I'm leaving
What a face you have, Sharapov- folk memory likes to round off volatile phrases, bringing them to a common denominator, highlighting the general message. Living example - There is no money, but you hold on! Only a few months have passed, the video is still hanging online, but how many people remember that Medvedev never said of these words? He babbled all sorts of nonsense to the pensioners in response to an awkward question and hastily retreated, and the phrase There is no money, but you hold on!- this is just the general meaning of what was said. It has become folklore.

But other facts are completely beyond logical explanation.

For example, where did the little banker’s monocle from the popular game go? Monopoly??
It was - it became:

Everyone remembers the round monocol on a string on the left eye of the funny little man.
I remember.
It was a brand symbol. Even the play on words itself - monocle echoes the name Monopoly. But now there is NO round glasses on the eye! The cheerful bourgeois's eyesight magically improved. And this is not just a new option, the monocle has disappeared from past, from all the designs and designs of the card box. It is now believed that he It never happened! All versions of pictures on the Internet already exist WITHOUT a monocle.

From such an incident, the brain really begins to melt.

Another example is the Volkswagen logo.
On the one hand, what difference does it make whether there was a dividing line in the middle or not?
Maybe it was always there, but we didn’t notice it, didn’t pay attention to it.
But here you can take my word for it, because when I studied the symbols and their hidden esoteric meaning, I looked for a long time and carefully at the VW in the circle, since conspiracy theorists claimed that unscrupulous fascists hid a swastika in the car company’s logo. I remember exactly that there was no “belt at the waist” separating VI from Double U. The lines smoothly flowed into one another.
It was - it became:

There was no “rebranding” of the icon either.. The horror is that the dividing line instantly appeared on all real Volkswagen cars, all varieties and editions! Now it is believed that this has ALWAYS been the case.
Well, I don't agree. There was no line and that was it.

Or another chilling example.
Bible.
Who and when managed to change the famous phrase (in absolutely all versions and translations of the Holy Book) that the time will come when the Lion will recline with the Lamb. This means that peace will reign everywhere, predators will stop killing their victims. The world will become kind, love will reign. Forgive me for such a free interpretation.
But now the Lion has disappeared somewhere, and with the lamb he finds himself... The Wolf!

Leo and It was never. There was always a Wolf, his eyes clicking.
And if you remember the image below, then congratulations! welcome to the club! It's time to go to the doctor and take a cure for the Mandela Effect.

So what happened?
There are several theories. It will take several posts to cover them.

One of the most interesting, frankly speaking, science fiction hypotheses is that we jumped into a parallel reality, and here everything is a little different. Remember Trekhlebov’s lectures? He spoke very clearly about life as a simulator for the development of the soul, where our “I” goes through various experiences in all versions of realities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-wRhgSIhI

Version One:

It's all the BUK's fault - The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland!

When did it happen?
Perhaps September 10, 2008, when the Collider was first launched. Or in 2012, remember the promised “end of the world”? In the West, many people name the date 2013, when the giant accelerator malfunctioned. Or maybe in 2015, when, after repairs, the infernal pipe started working at double capacity.
One way or another, there was a lot of concern about the possible consequences of the collider's work. They feared that our earth could disappear to hell within a hundredth of a second after it was turned on.
But everything worked out, the collider works, we continue to exist.
However, it is possible that the catastrophe is still happened and our world WAS destroyed!

What if the study of “dark matter” by sorcerers-scientists, the acceleration of particles to the speed of light in a vacuum and the resulting formation of microscopic black holes, led to the fact that our reality was immediately drawn into one of these holes, where it melted away without a trace. But according to the law of conservation of energy, all of us, with all our energy luggage, emerged in a reality that is closest to ours. Now we live in a parallel reality, in a parallel universe. We brought with us all our memory, all the experience, all the information, and at first we did not notice anything unusual. Life goes on, the collider continues to drive the poor electron into both the tail and the mane. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and laughed at their unjustified fears.
But a number of inconsistencies soon emerged. Facts emerged, albeit insignificant, but completely inexplicable from the point of view of earthly logic and material understanding of the world.

The version about parallel worlds was voiced very well by a talented American boy, child prodigy, and young physicist. It's a pity if you don't speak English, Max (Max Loughan) speaks very well! And he gives his explanation of the Mandela effect (from the 6th minute). Pravda adds that he still doesn’t understand why some people retain the memory of the old world, while others do not.
Try turning on subtitles and reading, even in English.

The imperfection of this version is that some people remember one thing, others another.
It turns out to be some kind of chamomile: I remember here, I don’t remember here. Did we come here from different realities??
Memory in general is subject to influences, emotions, and is an unreliable source.

As for the Collider and CERN, this place is definitely filthy. They will. Then the heavens above that place will open:

(okay, maybe it's photoshopped)
Then ungodly ceremonies are organized there with a parade of the dead, goat dances and blasphemous sin.
Ugh, my eyes wouldn't look! Satanists, what can we take from them? This is definitely not photoshop.

Here are some more pictures to see

We only think that everything we remember is unchangeable. In any case, until, God forbid, sclerosis begins. In reality, this is far from the case. Never in history has a person been burdened with such mountains of contradictory information. And we already notice that someone believes that the Holocaust did not happen, that the Earth is flat, or that Jesus was the grandson of Vladimir Monomakh (according to Fomenko).

However, changing your position regarding the events of the past is one thing, but changing your memory of the past is something completely different. Think about the wise words of D. Orwell:

Someone needs to change our future. And for this they change our past. How? Today, few people go to libraries in search of any information. Most often, the search is carried out using the Internet. And the Internet has helped and is helping to solve many issues. A useful thing...But...Let's still remember who created it? And it was created at CERN - an organization whose true goal is to establish contact with “parallel worlds” (translated into biblical language: with demons and fallen angels), even if a necessary condition for this is the destruction of this world.

(sign at CERN: The World Wide Web was born here)

The leading search company Google, which, by the way, like CERN, also has 3 sixes in its logo, has already incorporated many sites, including YouTube, and works in close cooperation with Wikipedia. Much has been written about the fact that Google transfers the personal data of all citizens using its services to the National Security Agency (NSA). Google has been repeatedly accused of selectively displaying websites. So “everything is captured.”

Now let's imagine what happens if you Google to clarify some important fact from the past that you remember a little about, but have forgotten the details. And suddenly, site after site, you are given information opposite to what you expect (you don’t need to cut anything out with an ax, it’s not written with a pen - everything can be changed easily in the Internet paradigm).

Will you still think that you are right and all these sites are lying, or will you start to doubt your memory? ...It’s unpleasant to be a black sheep... And then...Click!.. And your memory has been changed: you agree with the information on these sites.

This is no longer a fantasy. In the English-speaking world, this phenomenon is called the Mandela Effect. The fact is that Nelson Mandela, the president of South Africa, died in 2013, but many people are sure that the news of his death was in the news in the late 80s of the last century. So who died? Or was it a news error that somehow wasn't corrected? Or something else... Below is an interesting video (although not everything can be trusted).

Sigh Check out this textbook for 6th grade. This is not the book of some crazy amateur historian. The textbook was approved by the Ministry of Education. Hold on... According to the textbook, in the 13th century BC, the Jews conquered the Russian city of Russkaya Oselya, which they later renamed Jerusalem....

Where did this information come from???? How suddenly did the Jebusites, from whom the city was recaptured, become Russians?? The Jebusites are the descendants of the cursed Canaan. In what ways are Palestinians similar to Russians? And yet, this unverified information made its way into the school as the ultimate truth.

An attempt to change our past is also carried out through numerous websites offering their theories about the history of human civilization. It was enough just to truthfully declare that the history that was taught to us in schools has many errors, and then various unsubstantiated and completely absurd sites with some kind of crazy ideas appeared from all the cracks: that before people there was a civilization of some kind stone people - www.as-gard.com/, about the fact that we live inside the planet (although, as far as I know, it’s not people who live there, but Nephilim/Nagas with their endless diversity)

We take the youngest to her parents’ dacha at night so that her daughter can sleep on the road. It's been 6 hours already, my eyes are already sticking together, and I can't sleep. It seems like we've already talked about all the topics. I say “if we don’t talk, I’ll fall asleep.” And then the husband asks: “Who wrote “The Prisoner”?”

Like who? - I was surprised, - Lermontov, of course.

But no,” he replied, “look on the Internet, this is Pushkin...

Can't be! “A storm covers the sky with darkness, spinning snow whirlwinds” - this is Pushkin. “It’s time, beauty, wake up: open your closed eyes to bliss” - also Pushkin. And "The Prisoner" - Lermontov! - I persist. I suddenly lost my sleep, I immediately went online and found “The Prisoner.”

Really Pushkin, I’m surprised.

Then he asked about the logo of “Volkswagen” and “Ford”, “what a face you have, Sharapov”, “Well, this... come in if anything”, did Khrushchev hit the podium with his shoe, threatening to show “Kuzka’s mother” how Rodin's "The Thinker" sits... and every time I confidently gave the wrong answers.

Well, yes, I tried. Recently, in one of the Italian stores, he pointed to a Volkswagen bus standing there, where the logo was “not like that”, I said “it should be...”, and ran further to other hangers, thinking “what an interesting stylization” .

“I see,” I said. - “The spoon does not exist”...

Do you know what I felt? I looked at him dumbfounded and thought: “Who? Who is this person sitting next to me???”

Well, just like Benaquista’s hero from Transfer. I started re-reading Benaquista after returning, without any purpose, and when I came across this story, I could not stop laughing - it turned out to be so similar to me a few days earlier.

There, the main character knew his wife so well that he could predict her every word and action. So, at that moment when he “knows perfectly well” that she will now begin to persuade him to go visit her sister, and will tempt him with fishing, she tells him the wrong thing, not at all: “You should go to a psychotherapist.” ... (In P.S. I will post the full excerpt so that you can get a feel for what is happening.)

Then I found about this very effect on the Internet and started reading (I’ll give the link at the end of the post so as not to blow your mind, I was scared to read). And I answered almost all the questions wrong. Although every time I wanted to add to my answer “well, it’s simple, everyone knows that.” That’s how I had the “everyone knows what I know” attitude.

Try to answer them yourself without peeking:

- "Proletarians of all countries, Unite!" / or "Connect"?

N.S. Khrushchev knocked his shoe in the UN hall, at a meeting in 1960, and said the immortal phrase “We will show you Kuzka’s mother” / or not?

Capital of Israel: Tel Aviv / or Jerusalem?

How many people were in the car when JFK was assassinated: 4/or 6?

How many states are there in the USA: an odd number / or an even number?

Which phrase from “Prisoner of the Caucasus” is correct: “In my house, I ask you not to express yourself.” / “No expression in my house.”

Did Vysotsky say “what a face you have, Sharapov” / or were there other words?

Like the lion cub asks the turtle from the cartoon: “Ride me, big turtle.” / or "Take me for a ride, will you?"

What does the wolf say at the end of the cartoon “Once upon a time there was a dog”: “Well, you are... come in if something happens” / or “You come in if something happens”?

How does Rodin’s “The Thinker” rest his hand on his head: with his fist on his forehead / or with the outer part of his open palm on his chin?

A phrase from the book of Isaiah chapter 11, verse 6: a lion will lie down next to the lamb. And there will be no evil on earth, and there will be a thousand-year peace. / or wolf?

What word was in the novel “Eugene Onegin” in the sentence that became popular: “The less we love a woman, the more she likes us." / or " easier"Does she like us?"

What is the name of Solzhenitsyn's story: "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich." / or "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich."

What does the Volkswagen logo look like: are the letters intact / or is there a crack in the middle?

What does the "F" in the Ford logo look like: straight / or curled?

There is no bone in the skull behind the eye / or is there?

Penguin habitat: only in Antarctica (South Pole) / scattered along the coasts in the southern hemisphere up to the Equator?

What color is Nutella nut butter: two-tone white and brown / or solid brown?

When did Mandela die: 2013 / or much earlier?

Phew... That's not all, but there is enough variation across regions, and I think it's enough for us :)

Oh yes, there are a lot of questions to which I answered “wrong”: and that Rodin’s thinker rests his fist on his forehead, and that the wolf said “Well, that’s it... come in if something happens” (and it seemed to me that in the pause the wolf even hiccupped), and that Khrushchev was knocking with his shoe, and “what a face you have, Sharapov” (this is how they teased someone who looked out of character), and “in my house, I ask you not to express yourself,” and “take me for a ride, you big turtle,” and “the less we love a woman, the more she likes us,” and that the skull has empty eye sockets, and the Volkswagen logo without a crack in the middle... And I remembered that Mandela’s death in 2013 also surprised me, he had died a long time ago - for a long time...

Arriving at my destination at 7 am, I began interviewing my parents who had just woken up with passion. And when I returned to Moscow, I immediately wrote to my classmate, with whom we are still friends (she is a doctor): “In, is there a bone behind the eyes?” - “a cone-shaped bone cavity,” she answered me. “And who wrote “I’m sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon”? - I continue. - “Lermontov?” - “Where does Rodin’s thinker end up?” - I didn’t let up. “On the forehead?...Are you kidding me?” - “No “This is a test, you and I answer the same,” I answered with a sigh of relief and calmed down a little.

But with incredible efforts of will, I stopped myself from asking every passerby over 40: “who wrote “The Prisoner,” how Rodin’s thinker sits, and what the wolf said...

And understanding why I answered that way became almost an obsession. The message “I should have studied better at school” does not work, because I studied well. The answers of all the relatives and friends I interviewed (oh God!) were different - both people and their answers, and not always correct, and often with doubt. Even the owners of Volkswagen and Ford did not remember what their car logo looked like, and answered correctly only by choosing from the proposed options.

And if you believe the site (at least regarding their survey), where I got these questions from, 33 thousand people took part in the survey! And only about 30% of them answer each question correctly. Because those who do not believe in aliens and others like them quickly close such sites and do not participate in “this stupidity” (I don’t believe it either, but I was interested). That's why I didn't believe that there were more people making mistakes.

But why are we, who then still received a high-quality free education, mistaken? - I thought and began to search.

By the way, the correct answers are after the slash "/". Congratulations to those who answered completely correctly - you have an excellent memory;) Those who made a mistake - don’t despair, I’m with you :)

The effect was given the name Mandela, because it was at the moment of the announcement of his death that many people exclaimed: “How can this be - he died 30 years ago in prison?!” And then they began to find other discrepancies between their memory and reality.

The essence of the “Mandela effect” comes down to the fact that many people who do not know each other think the same way - they believe that these little things were different, they remember it clearly. Even psychologists and psychiatrists are hesitant to call this “mass insanity,” because, as you know, “one person goes crazy.” The “deja vu” effect also disappears - everyone has their own picture. However, it is most reasonable to explain this by the secret of the structure of human memory. Even half of the points can be explained this way.

- “Unite” and “unite” are consonant, and they can easily be confused over the years.

They write that Khrushchev knocked with his shoe in one place, and in another he threatened to show Kuzkin’s mother, given Soviet propaganda, for the brightness of the picture it was quite possible to broadcast it with a different background, or the brain combined 2 events into one - this would also help remember the character more clearly person.

- "The less..., the more...". Although I answered “more,” but then I remembered how my mother corrected me, saying “easier.” There is a contrast here, so the brain automatically wants to substitute a word with the opposite meaning. And if you search for this phrase, you will see that on the Akademik website it is not called an error, but an “inaccurate quote” with a link to the original.

The thinker rests on his forehead... hmm... we think, presumably, the brain is in the head. When a person wants to show what he is thinking or remembering, it is more logical to point to his forehead.

Cartoon about a lion cub. This phrase has become a catchphrase, but without using the word “big turtle” it becomes more incomprehensible. The big turtle is used there instead of a name, as a name. You say “take me for a ride, will you?”, and no one may understand you, and after a while they will forget where it came from, and, therefore, they will forget what it means. And if you say “take me for a ride, big turtle,” then everything is immediately clear to everyone. The brain wants to be understood.

Penguins. Honestly, when I wrote about penguins, I thought, no, I was sure that they only live in Antarctica. And so she wrote, “When you hear the word “penguin,” the first thing that pops up is a picture of Antarctica.” But while I was writing the post, I became convinced that this is not entirely true. But it’s easier to remember “polar bears live at the North Pole, and penguins live at the South Pole.”

Mandela died earlier than he actually did. When any public figure disappears from the air for a long time, after some time we think “we haven’t heard anything about him for a long time, he’s probably already died, and I accidentally missed it.” We can call a friend to find out how he is doing if he has been missing for a long time. But who do we call to find out what's going on with Mandela?

Lermontov or Pushkin. And this is already half the merit of our quality education. Wake us up at night, read a couple of lines, and most likely we will name the author even in our sleep. Why the choice between these two poets, because at the same time there were also Zhukovsky, and Davydov, and Baratynsky, and Batyushkov, and Odoevsky...? For some reason, I remember that there was some kind of opposition between Pushkin and Lermontov, they were both compared in strength and greatness. Pushkin, of course, was considered poet No. 1, and Lermontov - No. 2, although I liked Lermontov more. That's why lines that bounce off your teeth are easier to attribute to one of the "two best."

Cartoon about a dog and a wolf. And here there is already evidence of mind games. Here, “Well, that’s you...” says the dog. The wolf replies: “Thank you.” The dog says “Ah” in a drawn-out manner, the wolf leaves, breaks through the fence, turns around and says “you can come in if anything happens.” Do you see how many intermediate words there are? Therefore, folklore threw out the unnecessary, and the rest became a well-known phrase. Now it doesn’t seem strange to coarse “what” with “what” - again for brightness.

I think so. And to illustrate the even greater floridness of memory, I’ll tell you honestly how I remembered the author of “The Prisoner” (oddly enough, my dad’s train of thought was the same): “Gorky, no, he wrote “Petrel”, “and he, rebellious, asks for a storm , as if there is peace in storms,” no, it’s “Sail.” Ah! Lermontov! “I’m sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon, a young eagle raised in captivity”), and I name Lermontov out loud. You understand what memory is capable of in cooperation with a brain? ;)

But it’s better to read Benaquista - a brilliant author, I highly recommend it. I fell in love with his books immediately when only his first book was published, and with my encouragement, all my family, friends and acquaintances fell in love with him. Even now, more than 10 years later, I re-read it with pleasure. Would you like an excerpt? Read it - it’s worth extending the post by a few more paragraphs with this text :)

"In the life of every married couple, there comes a morning when your other half looks at you with a slight tinge of doubt in his gaze. Doubt or something else. And there is something hypnotic about this other. For the first time, you notice anxiety in the eyes of the person with whom you have shared this gentle and routine serenity until today, and you do not yet know that it is you who are the cause of the anxiety.
- How did you sleep, Minu?
Minu is Catherine, the woman of my life, I married her twelve years ago. For a long time now she has been complaining that her butt sag and is trying to convince me of this, but I don’t see any difference. In a friendly company, she sometimes thinks that she is not up to par in some conversations, and here she is wrong. When this hits her, Katrin wonders if we made the right choice in life, but I can’t imagine any other way. This is why I love Catherine. And there's only one thing that annoys me about her - that I'm always five seconds ahead of her. Eternal five seconds.
- How much toast do you want, Minu?
- One.
I fry her two, because today we have lingonberry jam. With apricot or orange, she really only eats one toast, but with lingonberries, she will decide to allow herself a second one, she doesn’t know about it yet, but I know. Here they are, these same five seconds. I am able to finish most of the sentences she starts. In the store, I can easily guess things that will definitely attract her attention. When we make love, I can tell down to the second when she wants to change position. I know she uses the adjective "curious" every time she tries ginger ice cream, and "talkative" when she meets a chatterbox. She had never met garrulous, verbose or eloquent types - only talkative ones. I always know what bra she's wearing under her pearly gray dress.
- I think I'll have another piece of toast with jam!
When I advise her to watch a film that I have already seen, I write down on a piece of paper three or four arguments that she will find to praise or criticize the film. I never showed her this piece of paper to prove how predictable it was for me - I imagine too well the scene that would follow and her way of repaying me. This is Catherine. All the time. Imagine, for example, the breakfast that we are devouring at this very moment, and I - given certain circumstances (Saturday morning, good weather, a call from her sister last night) - know perfectly well that now she will again talk about the week in the Landes, where her my sister has been calling us for several months now. And he will tempt me with fishing.
- You know, my love, at our age we need to be able to relax, it’s time to think about ourselves, take care of ourselves. For example, this would not hurt you now.
-What exactly do you mean, Minu?
- Psychotherapy.
- ?.. Please repeat?..
- You should go to a psychotherapist. I think she said that word for the first time in twelve years. And she smiled with a significant look - I had not noticed this in her before.
- And you tell me this so easily, out of the blue, after twelve years of marriage, between two sandwiches?
“I’ve been meaning to tell you this for a long time, and today the time has come.
...Who is this woman in a robe sitting opposite me?”

The Mandela Effect is a collective phenomenon in which people have false memories of a fact or event. Scientists have proposed many theories to explain the cause of its occurrence. Among them there are quite reasonable concepts.

Human memory is a strange thing; it amazes with its strength and amazing volumes, but frightens with its tendency to make mistakes. There's a lot we don't know about how memory works, but suffice it to say it's not perfect. Perhaps most vexing is the phenomenon of false memories, erroneous or unconsciously fabricated memories of past events that seem so real and true that the people experiencing them refuse to accept evidence to the contrary.

Psychologists call this phenomenon confabulation. The term is used to refer to memory deficits seen in brain-damaged patients and to describe the everyday phenomenon of embellishment, where events and facts are made up on the fly to fill gaps in memory. Each of us has done this unknowingly at one time or another.

When did Nelson Mandela die?

The memory glitch, dubbed the “Mandela Effect,” has generated a lot of buzz online in recent years. In simple terms, the Mandela effect is a phenomenon of collective false memories. Examples of this phenomenon include quotes from famous films that everyone gets wrong, incorrect dates and numbers, and historical misconceptions.

The term "Mandela Effect" was coined by Fiona Broome, who said she first encountered the phenomenon when she discovered that, like many other people, she had a false memory associated with the death of the human rights activist and 8th President of South Africa. Nelson Mandela. She thought he died in prison in the 1980s, when in fact he left this world in December 2013. After this, Fiona began to notice other examples.

One of the most recent and most famous examples of the effect in the United States is the death of Billy Graham. Some claim that people are confusing it with Graham's retirement or perhaps his wife's funeral, but those who clearly remember these events disagree.

In the memory of many people, the portrait of Henry VIII, painted in the style of Holbein, who is enjoying a hearty meal, holding a turkey leg in one hand, has been preserved.

...However, apparently, such a portrait does not exist and never has existed. At least in this reality.

Do you remember how to spell the name of the world's most popular fast food restaurant chain - "McDonald's" or "MacDonald's"?

This is due to alternative memory; The "golden arches" (letter "M") is such a well-known symbol that most Americans can describe the company's mascot, Ronald McDonald, without even looking at him.

History in this reality: The original restaurant was opened in 1940 by Dick and "Mac" McDonald. The restaurant was always called McDonald's.

These are not just memory errors. They exceed normal levels of forgetfulness. But the strangest thing is that other people seem to have identical false memories. Some kind of mass insanity.

Parallel universes and virtual realities

According to one theory based on the principles of quantum mechanics, people who experience the Mandela Effect may be "sliding" between parallel realities.

Another theory claims that we all, without noticing it, exist in a world reminiscent of a “holodeck” (a device from the Star Trek series that creates the feeling of virtual reality for recreational purposes). In this model, apparent memory glitches are actually software glitches that cause inconsistencies in our perception of reality. Can you prove that this is not true?

There's nothing wrong with such speculation - it's fun, in fact; however, they do not provide any practical explanations or testable hypotheses. And it's not necessary. We don't have to make thought experiments about the ultimate nature of reality to explain why false memories occur.

The glitch is in the memory, not the matrix

According to leading psychological theory, memory is constructive rather than reproductive, meaning that the brain creates memories on the fly from various bits and pieces of information, rather than reproducing them as recordings. Memories cannot be “crystal clear.” They are influenced by a huge number of factors, including prejudice, association, imagination and peer pressure.

Why do some people think Nelson Mandela died thirty years too early? Perhaps this is due to two isolated bits of knowledge - Nelson Mandela's time in prison and his death. They merged and became a false memory due to the lack of actual memory of the message that Mandela had died.

Conclusion: memory is imperfect. Have we talked about this enough? It’s unlikely, because the list of psychological and social factors that can disrupt and distort our memories is actually very long.

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