Memory bug

[Carding Forum]

Hello, with this article we are starting a very exciting section in which we will explore different cognitive biases. And we will start with memory, namely its disorder.

Introduction

If you often watch YouTube, and in particular science pop, then you may well have heard about a certain "Mandela Effect". The bottom line is what. There was once an old man named Nelson Mandela, he seemed to be fighting for the rights of blacks and was the president of South Africa. In short, he is known in the environment of educated people, which our channel, I hope, is. So, he died in 2013. But several hundred thousand people were sure that he died in 1980. They just remembered it. So does this mean that their memories are false? Namely, this phenomenon was also given a scientific name - "confabulation"

Confabulation

But this does not mean that confabulation and the Mundella effect are one and the same. The Mundella effect is inherent to absolutely everyone. Each of us has had false memories at least once in our lives. This is due to the fact that our brain constantly plays with us and often, when recreating events, can add non-existent details based on events that happened later.

But clinical confabulation can be a serious mental disorder that is often accompanied by amnesia. A patient may have such a situation that he forgets real memories and remembers fictional ones. Creepy. And in the case of such confabulations, the content of such memories is very often fantastic, which of course can provoke the patient to be sent straight to the durk. But thank God, the confabulation is being treated. It is also fairly easy to diagnose with several techniques.

In total, we realized that confabulations are false memories from a past life, future, or even from fantasy. But let's get a little out of all this mental illness and take a look at a few examples of the Mandela Effect.

Examples of

1. Michael Jackson

Most people believed that he was bleaching his skin because he did not want to be black, but in fact, he was pigmented and suffered from vitiligo.

2. Remember this photo with the Soviet flag on the Reichstag, what do you think was the star on the flag in the original or not? And the correct answer was. It's just that over time and with the help of Photoshop, it was erased from the memory of people.

3. A little more about the USSR. What was the slogan originally on this poster with Lenin: "Workers of all countries, unite" or "unite"? Show your parents, let them guess, but the correct first answer.

4. And now geography. Few people know what is the capital of Israel, and why do we need it. But most people think that this is Tel Aviv, when in fact it is Jerusalem.

5. “The easier we love a woman, the more she likes us” - this was the quote in Pushkin's original. So women like us easier, not more.