I have brought it up with a few friends and most have heard the same!
Well, that is not a indication that it is not a false memory, as the thing you describe is core part of how these kind of collective false memories are probably formed, by “social and cognitive reinforcement”:
Scientists suggest that these are examples of false memories shaped by similar cognitive factors’ affecting multiple people and families, such as social and cognitive reinforcement of incorrect memories
I have been e.g. affected by the (known) Mandela Effect false memory of the Fruit-of-the-Loom logo having had a cornucopia.
I have seen the clear evidence that it has not, but I still have the memory, which feels absolutely real.
It is a really strange feeling… No wonder it sparked the idea by some that these kind of false memories are spill-overs from alternate timelines or parallel universes :-)
I love the Mandela effect, or as I like to call it, “white people don’t pay attention to African politics and then made up a whole thing to explain why they thought Nelson Mandela was dead.”
Well, tbf, the fact that they even knew the name “Nelson Mandela” indicates that they paid more attention to it than to basically everything else happening in Africa…
Well, that is not a indication that it is not a false memory, as the thing you describe is core part of how these kind of collective false memories are probably formed, by “social and cognitive reinforcement”:
I have been e.g. affected by the (known) Mandela Effect false memory of the Fruit-of-the-Loom logo having had a cornucopia.
I have seen the clear evidence that it has not, but I still have the memory, which feels absolutely real.
It is a really strange feeling… No wonder it sparked the idea by some that these kind of false memories are spill-overs from alternate timelines or parallel universes :-)
I love the Mandela effect, or as I like to call it, “white people don’t pay attention to African politics and then made up a whole thing to explain why they thought Nelson Mandela was dead.”
Well, tbf, the fact that they even knew the name “Nelson Mandela” indicates that they paid more attention to it than to basically everything else happening in Africa…