This poem inspired by the very soulful song by the Journey called, “Still she cries!”
“All she wanted was to see him before she left!
Keeping her emotions in check she was adept!
She remembered all about him, all the joy and tear
He may not remember anything was her greatest fear…”
This effect is so part of our lives that it will blow your mind away!
Fiona Broome a well known writer and researcher told about her experiences and thoughts about Nelson Mandela and how he dies in the prison in the 1980s. So what you would ask?
Well, Nelson Mandela did not die in 1980! After serving 27 years in prison, Mandela became president of South Africa from 1994–1999 and he actually died for real this time in 2013!
For many people the first thing was true for a long time! This collective false memory is called the Mandela effect! The way we remember things in one way while the truth is something else!
In psychology it is called a collective false memory!
This is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened. Suggestibility, activation of associated information, the incorporation of misinformation, and source misattribution have been suggested to be several mechanisms underlying a variety of types of false memory.
There are several examples in the net which you can search in your leisure but these are ones which absolutely amazed me!
The main one which even I remember as everyone does is the Monopoly man the official mascot of Monopoly! I had written a blog on this couple of days back and I distinctly remember him to have a monocle! While in truth, the official picture and images do not have him with any monocle! Mind blowing!
Remember the famous line from Snow White: ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?’” Grab a chair and sit! The actual line is, “magic mirror on the wall!”
Remember Bugs Bunny and the cartoon logo called Looney Toons!?; well; it has always been spelled as Looney “Tunes.”!
Now the shoe brand which is very famous and known! Called the sketchers! Well, it has no “T”! It is written as “Skechers”!
Now remember the Pokeman character, Pikachu and his black tail which is like lightning!? Well, there is no black end! LIke the cold play song goes; “It is all yellow”!
Just a couple of more to make you question reality!
Did you ever notice that there is no hyphen in between “Kit” and “Kat,”! It’s just Kit Kat!
One of the most famous lines in the star wars was a line which is remembered wrongly! And enacted like that! It was not Luke, I am your father! “No, I am your father,” is the correct line!
Now the penultimate! The famous line by Hannibal Lecter which we all know! In fact Will in Will and Grace also tells it like how we remember! We remember Hannibal Lecter saying, “Hello, Clarice,”! Hold your horses! The actual dialogue spoken by him was, “Good morning.”!
The final one is something I always believed in! The mandela art! I used to think it is named after Mandela because it used to make him pass time in prison! I am not alone! It is not! In fact it is Mandala!
In Sanskrit language, mandala means “circle.” Traditionally, a mandala is a geometric design or pattern that represents the cosmos or deities in various heavenly worlds. “It’s all about finding peace in the symmetry of the design and of the universe,”!
Well, at least the finding of peace in art is true! Which I do by my sketch and blogs however busy the day was! That makes me a good boy and not bad boy! Bad boy reminds me of Birthday celebrity Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence! Another Mandela effect for me was that I remember Martin as War Machine in the first Iron man while in fact it was Terrence Dashon Howard! Say what!?
Now forget all these and listen to Still She cries! Lovely song and lyrics which may put you to sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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