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Have you ever been so sure that you remembered something, only to find out that’s not how it actually went down? Sometimes lots of people mis-remember exactly the same things. This week, we explore the strange phenomenon of “The Mandela Effect.”
Referenced in this episode:
- SyFy – 30 years later, we can create false memories, Total Recall-style
- Good Reads – Recursion by Blake Crouch
- Scientific American – How accurate are memories of 9/11?
- PNAS – Cannabis increases susceptibility to false memory
- Science Direct – Flashbulb memories
- American Psychological Association – A Ten-Year Follow-Up of a Study of Memory for the Attack of September 11, 2001: Flashbulb Memories and Memories for Flashbulb Events
- Smithsonian – Meet the Two Scientists Who Implanted a False Memory Into a Mouse
- Amazon – The Mandela Effect – Theories and Explanations
- Big Think – How a Wild Theory About Nelson Mandela Proves the Existence of Parallel Universes
- YouTube – The Mandella Effect trailer