Happy Friday! This week we take a deep dive that starts with the Mandela Effect and ends with a discussion about aphantasia, a condition where people cannot form pictures in their minds. We'll talk about conspiracies and I'll share a thought experiment so you can figure out how you see things (or don't) in your mind.Sources:Aphantasia Network. “The Ball on a Table: How to Tell the Difference Between Visualizers and Conceptualizers.” Aphantasia Network, 8 Oct 2023, aphantasia.com/article/strategies/ball-on-the-table. Accessed 9 Mar 2025.Capital One Brandvoice. “The Mandela Effect—Bad Memories Or An Alternate Universe?” Forbes, 31 Oct 2017, www.forbes.com/sites/capitalone/2017/10/31/the-mandela-effect-bad-memories-or-an-alternate-universe. Accessed 9 Mar 2025.Chan, Katharine. “Eidetic Memory: The Reality Behind the ‘Photographic’ Mind.” Verywell Mind, 8 Jan 2024, www.verywellmind.com/eidetic-memory-7692728. Accessed 9 Mar 2025.Eske, Jamie. “Examples and explanation of the Mandela Effect.” Medical News Today, 20 May 2024, www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/mandela-effect. Accessed 9 Mar 2025.McDonough, Michael. “Mandela Effect.” Britannica, www.britannica.com/science/Mandela-effect. Accessed 9 Mar 2025.Richardson, Diane Currie. “Memories Without Imagery—Remembering Outside the Lines.” Aphantasia Network, 18 Mar 2024, aphantasia.com/article/stories/memories-without-imagery/?srsltid=AfmBOoqVBQnovi7-s4EkkEpHEXVZvSL57krz9BqwFi_stMNKZ5MHDPf9. Accessed 9 Mar 2025.Squire, Larry. “Is photographic memory real? If so, how does it work?” Brain Facts, 17 Apr 2016, www.brainfacts.org/ask-an-expert/is-photographic-memory-real. Accessed 9 Mar 2025.Vath, Inka. “Aphantasia Impacts Autobiographical Memory Recall.” Neuroscience News, 27 Feb 2024, neurosciencenews.com/aphantasia-memory-25667. Accessed 9 Mar 2025.“What is Aphantasia?” Aphantasia Network, aphantasia.com/what-is-aphantasia. Accessed 9 Mar 2025.Music: https://pixabay.com/users/lsmusic-46357977/

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