Memories Cripple the Consciousness of Reality

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Memories cripple the consciousness of reality. People’s perception evolved within illusions and memories, thus reflects identity. The mind can both function to forget and remember. Are memories something we have or something we have lost? A memory that is being stored often deviates from the memories being recollected. People tend to say that memories last forever. But can those memories in a persons mind be always so true or accurate enough for the story to be behold? Not every memory that people remembers are accurate. Memories may form falsely and unconsciously at times. Genuine or fake, people are still able to make the memory out of something that occurred within their lives. Memories can be distorted and re-invented that leads to the likelihood of creating the false memories minted in the mind.

The mind can distort certain detailed memories. Not every recollected memory is as accurate as one would though it would be. Elizabeth Loftus, cognitive psychologist, sought to explain that “ Line of research into false memories shows that it is indeed possible to create complex and elaborate false memories in the minds or research subjects, and that subjects are confident that these false memories are real” (Loftus). An experiment that models an example distorted recovered memories is Loftus’ eyewitness testimony experiment. Research subjects

watched the same car accident video and are asked what they remember about it. They claim to have recovered details that never really occurred. “Those who were asked about the broken headlight were more likely to remember seeing it, though it never existed” (Wilson). The memory of seeing a collision is true, but the details are not because they re-invented such component to the story. This...

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...ther, a beautiful picture is behold. Along these lines, memories shape a person’s identity. Life may have been just a collection of memories and a single moment can spark a lifetime.

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