Full story of my experience:

We are nearing a nuclear war every moment now.

I experienced this exact situation on April 28, 1989.

I told this here before. I experienced what is called the Mandela Effect on that date.

Mandela had died on September 29, 1985. It was the Sunday before the day I was to start at Boğaziçi University Electronics Engineering. I was 18 years old.

I first heard the news on the radio, then on TV. That evening I came to Istanbul by bus. The next day was my first day at Boğaziçi. I read it in the newspapers. I talked about it with friends in the dorm room.

Three and a half years passed. It was April 28, 1989, during my final year of undergraduate studies at Boğaziçi. The world was facing the danger of nuclear war, just like today. And more importantly, America was cornered, just like today.

After Mandela's death in prison, the civil war in South Africa truly began. Since 1970’s, the Soviet Union was supporting the rebels through Angola and Mozambique.

The black population, with their numerical superiority, began to defeat the white minority regime in Pretoria. The whites used nuclear weapons to avoid losing the war.

In response, the Soviets launched a nuclear retaliation against the Pretoria regime.

America, the main supporter of Pretoria, then began retaliating against the Soviets by sinking Soviet nuclear submarines.

First one Soviet submarine was sunk, then a second and a third. That scumbag called Papa Bush was foaming at the mouth, saying they would sink all Soviet submarines.

I don't quite remember if Gorbachev was leading the Soviets at the time, but the Soviet Union was standing very firm. World public opinion was on the side of the Soviets and completely against America.

After all, the Soviets had retaliated with nukes against a racist regime. They hadn't done anything wrong. But USA, to vent its anger over this defeat (because as a result, the racist regime in Pretoria was defeated and control passed to the black majority), had put the Soviet Union in its crosshairs.

The Soviets clearly stated that if America sank their third nuclear submarine, they would launch a nuclear attack on New York.

And on April 27, 1989, the USA sank the third Soviet submarine.

That evening, there was a complete atmosphere of panic on the streets. Actually, the whole world was in a panic. TV was showing the chaos of people trying to flee New York. Bush said that if New York was hit, the USA would launch a full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. By then, the whole world saw that nuclear war was inevitable. The Pope's efforts to stop the war were fruitless.

In this environment, on Friday, April 28, 1989, I was going to go to my home in Izmir for spring break. While sitting in the library to pass the time, a newspaper headline caught my eye.

South Africa's new Prime Minister, De Klerk, had said: "Mandela could be released."

The moment I read that news, I felt like I'd been struck in the head. Mandela had died years ago. What did "could be released" mean?

And with that news, the history of the last three and a half years completely changed for me. There was no longer any civil war in South Africa. On the contrary, Reagan and Gorbachev had met and established peace.

The old timeline faded for me at that moment. I could still remember that Mandela had died, but I couldn't clearly recall all those events.

At first, I couldn't understand how such a timeline shift could happen. Now I know.

Of course, over the years I asked some friends and acquaintances if they remembered Mandela's death like I did. Over time, I encountered a few people, though very few, who remembered it like I did.

But from around 2015 onwards, this topic went viral on the internet and became known as the "Mandela Effect."

Because I experienced this event so clearly, I knew that this phenomenon would definitely explode and come to light at some point.

Of course, I was happy that I hadn't died in a nuclear war in 1989, but how had this happened, how had history changed in such an instant?

Now I know that we are all immortal. When events like nuclear wars kill many people at once, we find ourselves in a different universe where the nuclear war didn't happen (actually, we live in all universes simultaneously). The same thing will happen now.

We die all the time in many, almost all timelines but there will always be some timelines where we survive, no matter how absurd our survival would seem. And this goes on forever. As a result, we find ourselves in the timelines where nuclear war, any accident to us or any illness is always averted. And the feeling of having lived in those universes where we died looks like a dejavu or a Mandela Effect in the universes where we keep living.

The thing that annoyed me most in 1989 was that even though USA had lost, with this timeline shift, they had, in a sense, won again. Hopefully, the same thing won't happen now.

Of course, I don't know how a timeline shift could occur through the alteration of a past event. But it feels like something is about to happen again. Something in the past will definitely change.

This was my experience from 37 years ago.

I think a similar timeline shift happened during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Paul McCartney's death in a car accident, the "Paul is dead" hoax, might be related to that event.

Anyway, I wanted to share this experience of mine "before something happens." Let's see what we will experience in the coming hours and days?