Outline For The Mandela Effect

PURPOSE STATEMENT: To explain the Mandela Effect.

I.The Mandela Effect is the phenomenon of collective remembering of alternative histories or false memories. In other words, it’s when we clearly remember something that does not correlate with this reality.

A.It’s most commonly known to be slight changes, or “glitch”, in details in facts and events like spellings.

1.Examples: Bernstain VS Bernstein Bears; Chick-fil-A VS Chik-fil-A; No I am your father VS Luke, I am your father; Magic Mirror VS Mirror Mirror; “They like me, they really like me” never existed

B.It began when Fiona Broome, a researcher and paranormal consultant, shared her recollection of Nelson Mandela’s death and funeral 30 years earlier than it actually did.

2.In this theory, people who experience the Mandela Effect somehow “slide” between universes and wake up recalling memories that never happened.

a.Broome believes that she and others that share that same memory of Mandela’s death are not wrong but rather lived a parallel reality with a different timeline that crossed paths with ours.

B.Another theory is that we actually live in something that resembles to a “holodeck”.

1.A holodeck is a reference to the Star Trek technology that creates a virtual 3D environment and simulations.

a.This means our reality is actually a virtual experience and our false memories are actually software glitches.

2.However, these theories cannot be scientifically supported through hypotheses and experiments to explain why we misremember facts similarly. According to these theories, false memories occur spontaneously.

III.The psychological theory is that our memory cannot be trusted. Many factors influence this theory.

A.The human brain is not designed to remember.

1.It is flexible; however that also leaves it vulnerable and