The Mandela Effect And False Memories

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Have you ever noticed that you may distort some facts when talking about the same past event on different occasions?

Read the article and analyze how memories can be distorted or manipulated.

The Mandela Effect and False Memories

Vocabulary Questions:

  1. What is the meaning of the word “lapse“? Use it in a sentence.
  2. What is the meaning of the phrase “creep into“? Use it in a sentence.
  3. What is the meaning of the word “insinuate“? Use it in a sentence.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Do you have a good memory? What vivid events from your childhood do you remember best?
  2. What is your stand on the Mandela Effect? Give your own example/s of Mandela Effect.
  3. What might be some events that people tend to exaggerate when retelling them. Why do you think they do that?
  4. Can a person train their long-term memory? Will it prevent them from stirring false memories? Explain your thoughts.
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2 replies on “The Mandela Effect And False Memories”

Discussion Questions:
1. Do you have a good memory? What vivid events from your childhood do you remember best?
Definitely Not, I have a bad memory, I think I remember well all my childhood events, but I am sure not, when I confront them with my family or my friends, I realise, I always remember them better that they really were.

2. What is your stand on the Mandela Effect? Give your own example/s of Mandela Effect.
I have a bad memory as I said before, I am also dyslexia problems, so I have a lot of bad remembered examples, with names, data, etc… This is why I don’t trust my memory.

3. What might be some events that people tend to exaggerate when retelling them. Why do you think they do that?
I think people always remember their childhood better that it really was. I suppose maybe because when you are getting older you have nostalgy of these times when you were younger and delete (unintentionally) the bad moments you suffered at that time…

4. Can a person train their long-term memory? Will it prevent them from stirring false memories? Explain your thoughts.
I’m not sure, but I suppose yes, more or less everything can be trained and you can improve it. But for what reason to do that? I think false memories have an evolutionary reason and is good for people… so let them to be like that…

Well done writing your answers to the discussion questions.

Note how this sentence can be revised:

I suppose maybe because when you are getting older you have nostalgy of these times when you were younger and delete (unintentionally) the bad moments you suffered at that time…

I suppose maybe because when you are getting older, you have nostalgia of these times when you were younger and (unintentionally) delete the bad moments you suffered at that time.

Here’s to more entries from you!

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