Memory! By many accounts, memory is what makes us, us. Our sense of self, according to many philosophers and scientists, is informed by what we remember, and don’t remember.
But what does it mean if everyone around us misremembers the exact same thing?
Sources:
[Origins of the Mandela Effect]
https://bit.ly/2HKkp8M
https://www.gaia.com/article/the-mandela-effect-cern-and-hidden-parallel-universes
https://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biography
[Memory Sins]
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/articles/200105/the-seven-sins-memory
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/schacterlab/files/schacter_american_psychologist_1999.pdf
[Possible Explanations]
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/confabulation
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1037/1089-2680.2.2.175?journalCode=rgpa
http://skepdic.com/cryptomn.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010028575900237?via%3Dihub
[Other Sources]
https://giphy.com/gifs/mandala-circular-transcendent-USs6qiFW1j8AGoRJxO/media
https://youtu.be/aqyj9YjPjyk&start=27
https://csdl-images.computer.org/mags/an/2006/01/figures/a1004a2.gif
