Mandela Effect: Your Memory Isn't Perfect

And this may influence how you see things and the world around you.

I will show you five pictures of very popular brands, see if you can recall all images accurately:

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When you return from Google to see how little (or much) you remember accurately of these brands, let me tell you what piqued my interest in this topic.

I was watching an episode of The Mind, Explained (I hope this isn’t a false memory), and there were people in a room talking about the terror attack of September 11, 2001. One person clearly recalls watching the first plane enter a wing of the World Trade Centre before being evacuated. Other people recall different events on that day (almost accurately, down to the time they occurred) but over time, their relatives and good ol’ deduction have shown that those people were not even close to the WTC when the explosions happened.

I can’t remember clearly if it was in the episode or when I googled other samples that I learned about someone who had not even been born in 2001 that has a clear memory of the attacks. If you think that is weird, then wait until you hear this next bit.

In 2009, a researcher, Fiona Broome, was at a conference with a bunch of friends when she started talking about Mandela’s death in the 1980s. Broome, was not the only person at the conference who believed they saw a televised Mandela Funeral that happened in the 1980s. So Broome started to write about the effect relating to Mandela’s death and how it is possible for more than one person to remember one event differently.

At least, we all know Nelson Mandela did not die until 2013. So did this happen?