From time to time, there will be discussions about the lyrics in the song "Love My China" on social **, whether the lyrics are "fifty-six nationalities, fifty-six flowers", or "fifty-six constellations, fifty-six flowers"?Many netizens chose the first one, but through the query, it was found that the correct lyrics were the second. Why is that?Maybe it's the Mandela effect.
The Mandela Effect refers to the phenomenon of people discovering inconsistencies between memory and reality, and it first appeared in the former ** Mandela in South Africa. In 2013, the news of Mandela's death went viral, but there was some discussion on social media, with some people saying that they clearly remembered that South Africa's former ** Mandela died in prison as early as 1980, a statement that was supported by many people. However, Mandela did die in 2013. This phenomenon has attracted people's attention, so it is also known as the "Mandela effect".
This phenomenon has no clear scientific explanation, and it is mysterious, and many people give it a supernatural explanation, believing that this large-scale collective amnesia may be related to "parallel universes" and "multidimensional spaces". At present, from the perspective of psychology, scholars believe that the Mandela effect is related to the deconstruction of memory.
Psychological researchers believe that individuals often store memory content in the brain in a fragmented way before memory formation, and then arrange it in a certain order. When external information and an individual's inherent experience are disturbed, the brain will deconstruct the memory and rearrange it, which is an unconscious behavior. In the lyrics of "Love My China", the lyrics of "Fifty-six Constellations" and "Fifty-six Nations" are more in line with our traditional experience. As a result, individuals will unconsciously remember the latter.
Of course, this fragmented reconstruction is not only affected by experience, but also by individual preferences, predictions, outcome simulations, and the ambiguity of information will affect the arrangement of individual memories. This phenomenon is very similar to the psychologist Sigmund Freud's interpretation of dreams, in which people change their experiences to form dreams to satisfy their desires, and reconstruct memories for better memory and more plausibility.
In this way, we can explain the Mandela effect, that is, Mandela's striking image is white hair, which is consistent with prison hair, and that the individual's appearance of white hair is associated with death in combination with inherent experience, and that after his release from prison, Mandela rarely appears in the public eye. This fragmented memory information causes the brain to automatically generate a result: Mandela has died.
In this way, it seems that our memories can be altered. However, the researchers claim that it is only the way memories are combined that have changed, and that there is no error in the content of the memory, and that it is the individual's subconscious interpretation that causes the memory error. Just as memories are overlooked by the brain after many recalls, the more we recall something, the more we blur it. This is not a mistake in memory, but a result of the evolution of the human brain.
This article refers to:
Ge Yuehui, "The Deconstruction, Reset of Memory, and the Combination of Memory Fragments".
Well, that's all for today. If you still want to know more about psychology, you can try to read more relevant materials, or you can try to study the basic training course for psychological counselors to learn some systematic psychological knowledge.
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