Mandela Effect: The Science of False Memories | Sci Guys Podcast #93
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3 жыл бұрынHave you ever remembered something that didn’t happen? Turns out false memories are actually pretty common, in fact they’re the reason that so many people believe that Nelson Mandela died in prison...
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Incognito - David Eagleman
@deovolente5867 3 жыл бұрын
Luke spoiling the episode is my favourite part. It makes me so happy.
@oivenmann9977 3 жыл бұрын
Hearing this it also makes sense that people with synaesthesia are generally better at remembering stuff, because they have these additional sensations/thoughts that they can remember aswell that are also linked to more information
@chrisgrimstad9985 3 жыл бұрын
This is very interesting. I'm a twin, and I'll often start telling a story of something that happened to me as a kid only to have my twin chime in and say that it was actually her. We both do this because we don't actually remember it, we've just been told the story a lot, kind of like corry's story at 50:50 I think it happens with us and not our other sister because obviously we were both the same age during the story, making it easier for us to forget which one it was about.
@nellieorourke-stopka1072 3 жыл бұрын
throwback to the time ten years ago when i repeated the first 100dp of pi to myself over and over again, and now they will never ever leave my brain
@HattieHaha 3 жыл бұрын
I LITERALLY DID THIS TOO like 9 years ago that's insane
@nightburststudios2142 3 жыл бұрын
"his son... took over running those bears" that one made me giggle
@sassybdassi6686 3 жыл бұрын
i still remember the number plate of a London cab that I tried to remember in 2012 when I was 11 years old. and I remembered it backwards
@themorganrileyshow5520 3 жыл бұрын
I still remember my mothers first mobile phone number, and that was years ago.
@sassybdassi6686 3 жыл бұрын
@@themorganrileyshow5520 i remember all my parents old phone numbers
@crazycatlover1885 2 жыл бұрын
Literally watched this while revising memory for my psychology mock
@CappyJ 3 жыл бұрын
So the thing about choosing what info to store in long-term isn't necessarily about capacity. Long-term memory is thought to be possibly unlimited. But there is a limit on attention. We can only process so much information at a time. So we focus on what we need or what's most salient at the time. Also the different senses may have different loads on attention. For example, usually visual info will override sound so it's quite common to not hear someone speaking to you if you're particularly focused on a screen or something. This is why distractions can be so effective at reducing pain (I just researched this for uni).
@hobbitgarden 3 жыл бұрын
Loved this episode, thank you for doing it.
@sassybdassi6686 3 жыл бұрын
"your mum doesn't have my number" bahahaha
@flynnaugustbassist8523 3 жыл бұрын
I think with the berenstain bears it’s just a mispronunciation. Stein is a much more common syllable in last names than stain and, when people are children, they pick up more on the way our parents pronounce it because children are more use to talking and listening than reading. Not entirely sure it’s true but if you know anything else or have your own theory about it please tell me. Thanks.
@mostazezo 3 жыл бұрын
einstein
@mackthompson616 3 жыл бұрын
@@mostazezo einstain??
@user-es7ui5mc1m 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the German "ei" is usually pronounced "eye", so I think it got mixed up at some point? Stein is basically pronounced "shtine", that's why Einstein is pronounced that way (although it is not like stain!) There are a lot of German last names that end in -stein, so I'm assuming the name was German/German-inspired? I had never heard of the Bears until the Mandela Effect and when I first heard the name, I acutally thought it might have been a play on Bernstein (German for amber).
@haukenot3345 3 жыл бұрын
@@user-es7ui5mc1m I just googled the Berenstain family, and it seems the name is Jewish in origin. Since Yiddish is heavily influenced by German, it's quite likely the name actually is a Yiddish variant of the name Bernstein, which in turn is a rather common Jewish surname. Hebrew doesn't really allow for double consonants at the end of a syllable and tends to form segolates instead (like beren for bern). Also, it typically renders the German "ei" as "ay", which in turn might be transliterated to "ai". I suppose, the same might be true for Yiddish. Of course, with American family names of European origin there's no general rule for how pronunciation developed since emigration, but at some point of time, the "stain" was probably pronounced as "stine".
@mostazezo 3 жыл бұрын
thank you luke crawfish for reading my comment during the today's stream I also have another question: will dogs be able to play videogames with humans one day?
@Erin258 3 жыл бұрын
This makes me even more irritated by teachers that put trick questions on exams🙄 You're literally fucking with my mind here!!!!
@DanielJ 3 жыл бұрын
Everything needs to change.
@hobbitgarden 3 жыл бұрын
Bread is going good luke
@iguuvcya4988 3 жыл бұрын
I love this podcast
@unionunicorn6776 Жыл бұрын
Corry: “Think about the sides of your tongue in your mouth.” Jamp: “No…” You guys are hilarious! 🤣 Subbed! 😊
@Jay-nx5ui 3 жыл бұрын
i remember when i was suspended i was covering for a friend on what happened and i told other people that story so many times i forgot that it wasnt the truth
@mostazezo 3 жыл бұрын
I actually play video games while i listen to podcast and I often do this while on vacation road trips and when i go back to those places in my minecraft or stardew valley i be like aha i remember what they were talking about. Right now I can remember a barn I was building in creative mode super flat world where about people discussing whether their opinions on bernie sanders and having to settle for Hillary Clinton
@skymongenel5887 Жыл бұрын
Same! I thought I was the only one.
@KittyThaliaX23 3 жыл бұрын
0/10 I felt the sweat between the webbing of my fingers I crave liven’t
@saggguy7 3 жыл бұрын
tf u mean no one is going to let you chew gum in an exam? i’ve used that trick on every exam i’ve taken in both high school and college lol
@shannon2762 3 жыл бұрын
The majority of schools in the UK don’t allow gum
@jamespaterson3836 3 жыл бұрын
this just in: the us isn't the only country
@saggguy7 3 жыл бұрын
@@jamespaterson3836 this just in: the uk isn’t the only country either
@darkwood_8224 3 жыл бұрын
Idk what part of the world you live in but in every school I’ve ever been to we weren’t allowed to chew gum. In highschool we weren’t allowed to chew it ever, in college we weren’t allowed to chew it in class
@libbyrb8225 3 жыл бұрын
So funny story about false memories: when I was younger (like primary school age) i told my friend this story about something that happened when we were like 5. But the thing is it never happened, I just lied about it 😂 (don't ask me why cause I honestly don't know) but anyway i told her it like one time and since then on multiple occasions she's been like "oh do you remember when this happened haha". By this point I don't have the heart to tell her that it never happened 😂 I always thought that that was super strange but now I get it!
@robinrunaway5468 3 жыл бұрын
There are actually older coins with Queen Victoria on them where she is facing the left. I live in America so I don't see these coins often but I do remember this coin from tinker bell lol and I just looked up the coin to make sure.
@Satankat666 2 жыл бұрын
That's because the monarchs face on the coin alternates which direction it looks.
@yoinksscoob4889 3 жыл бұрын
I was reading about Loftus today
@mackthompson616 3 жыл бұрын
1:18:55 + 1:21:28 ayyy it’s me!!
3 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, I got the coin/queen question right and I think it's because I only lived in the UK for 4 years so I spent a lot of time peering at my change trying figure out what it was and/or differentiate it from the euro in my wallet 😂
@Satankat666 2 жыл бұрын
Do you tend to use postage stamps at all? I'd be interested if more people got it correct as less stamps are use. I seem to remember it came up on QI once and they were saying how people may get confused because the queen faces the opposite way on postage stamps.
@kaileytaylor4518 3 жыл бұрын
thanks Corey, for making me learn that I have blind spots. and for the anti-meditation
@andrewtuttle9645 3 жыл бұрын
Great show. Came here after Corry showing up on Spice8rack. Not sure how often you check the comments, but would you be able to sort the every episode ever playlist to be in chronological order. For whatever reason it looks like the option is no longer a feature for people that don't own a playlist.
@jaime3007 3 жыл бұрын
Good thing to know that even if I get amnesia I can still learn to shred 🤘😔🎸
@lamaaaay1301 3 жыл бұрын
Felt like checking, the queen is also facing right on Canadian coins
@OracleNightwhisper 2 жыл бұрын
The Shaq film is in fact called Kazaam
@oliviasarah2335 2 жыл бұрын
I'm only 20 minutes in but I fully went to look at a coin because I thought "Oh the Queen probably faces right in the UK but left in Canada" but nope she faces right in Canada too
@EvelJester13 2 жыл бұрын
I Have A Clip Of The Movie Shazzam With Sinbad. And The Other With Shaq Was Kazzam And It Wasn't Really A Genie Movie To Say.
@Lisuje16 2 жыл бұрын
weird thing, Sinbad is a real movie (full title is Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas)
@ananeisenstein-bond6927 Жыл бұрын
What color were Ashley's glasses when she appeared at the end of the podcast?
@Erin258 3 жыл бұрын
Backspace! 😂
@JennaGetsCreative Жыл бұрын
As someone with an 88 in my email address, third option: Born in the year 1988.
@jaydajohn5041 3 жыл бұрын
11:00 I feel childish for thinking they kept saying penis instead of pianist until turning on the subtitles. I was so confused😂
@aprilk141 4 ай бұрын
Commentiquette already did this
@sassybdassi6686 3 жыл бұрын
i knew the queen faced right!
@mostazezo 3 жыл бұрын
I actually got lost in a mall once as a child and I bet 50 years of my life that it was real. I don't know all the details but I remember that I was with my dad and I couldn't find him I know for a fact that that it was evening and I had gone to a mall cop and she gave me starbust and I thought it was funny that i took candy from a stranger even though it was law enforcement.
@themorganrileyshow5520 3 жыл бұрын
The way I remember phone numbers is weird, for mobile it's 5-4-2 (so 07000-0000-00) and landlines as 5-3-3 (so 02000-000-000)
@deadlymelody27 3 жыл бұрын
Wooo my name was mentioned even though its not my name 😂
@hannahpickford6889 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if how much a child trusts an authority figure also influences the memories too, 🤔
@namelesscat9777 3 жыл бұрын
how tf am I so early
@J0HN5AW 3 жыл бұрын
Please, tell me how I (born 1965), a Protestant raised as a KJV-only Christian, have been saying the Catholic version of the Lord's Prayer (with "Trespasses") since age 7 as a Southern Baptist till 2015 when I learned about the Mandela Effect. Please explain how we went from an Earth having a yellow Sun located (according to Neil deGrass Tyson and Carl Sagan) in the outer edge of the Sagittarius Arm to this Earth with its white Sun located near the center of the galaxy in the middle of the Orion Spur. Please explain how the Baptists and Pentecostals went from KJV-only to using the NIV while Masons and Mormons became defenders of the KJV. Thank you.
@robk2257 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe the Baptists around you were unaware what side of these inconsequential differences they were supposed to be and inadvertently practiced the other sides tradition. The differences Christian sects have on the same source material is kind of ridiculous in the first place which explains why nobody pays very close attention to them and that in turn places them at the risk of being misremembered.
@J0HN5AW 3 жыл бұрын
@@robk2257 I grew up KJV-only and passed out Jack Chick tracts my Southern Baptist Church gave us to hand out. I was KJV-only in Bible College and refused to even pretend to sing the lyrics to hymns in Chapel Choir that weren't KJV-compliant. Even Jack Chick is a Mandela Effect, originally spelled Chic (without the k).
@saggguy7 3 жыл бұрын
this is so passive aggressive i’m laughing so hard
@J0HN5AW 3 жыл бұрын
@@saggguy7 lol :)
@olenjka55 3 жыл бұрын
I suppose in German it would be written: die Bernstein Bären...
@katiejane8012 3 жыл бұрын
Then there's people born in '88 who are neither a pianist or a white supremacists 😑😑
@LK-my3wq Жыл бұрын
I don't know if this is that but you know Ariana grande's song? I belive God is a woman? Well no, its called; God is a woman and the line is; you'll belive God is a woman. Not I belive God is a woman.