Thread: You, the Dream Character

Originally Posted by Sageous

I am not a Lackey. Kaomea.

I'm sorry Sageous. When I said this I wasn't speaking of you. I've read a number of your posts in other threads and one of the things you are consistent with is that you don't side with people. You side with ideas. The only thing I meant when I brought your name up was the fact that you rephrased the OP in a more elegant manner than the original.

Originally Posted by Sageous

I was trying to restore the thread to the theme of its OP (whoever made it), and away from this spewing fountain of nonsense that had nothing to do with the OP. I obviously failed.

Actually, sometimes taking the scenic (nonsense) route eventually does lead back to the original destination. I apologize if I can't always stay on task, I acknowledge my habit of deviating off course but rest assured, I do come back to the OP in some form. That and sometimes when we are questioned, we're forced to reformulate our ideas and dig our heels in a bit deeper.... or we decide to add or subtract various points and represent information. Disagreements on any level can be helpful in some cases... even if they initially appear disadvantageous.

Originally Posted by moSh

That relates to another bit of A level psychology we looked at, that I almost put in my earlier post, called 'reconstructive memory'. All the studies we looked at showed the incredible (though often misleading) way in which our mind's fill in the gaps in our memory with whatever seems most logical. This gives us 'false memories', where our mind assumes information based on previously built 'schemas' (archives of compiled data which are similar in some way). Unfortunately, this is often inaccurate, and in extreme cases can lead to negative stereotyping: one study showed participants a picture of one man holding another at the end of a knife, but only for a very brief time. The results showed that the majority of the participants 'remembered' the assailant to be black and the victim white, despite it actually being the other way round.

Hence why eye-witness accounts are so flimsy. Although the idea of fabricated memories are incredibly interesting. I mean, what we remember is often flawed in some form... we only remember key details, not entire events. When I say entire events, I mean everyone who passed your line of vision, each sound a person, animal, or inanimate object produced, and even the various scents which waft through the air. It's just too much stimuli to process and record that we have to select which to perceive, let alone store. It's fascinating.

Given that idea, it makes me wonder what exactly is an unflawed memory? Memory itself is flawed in some form... and then when we attempt to reconstruct stored memories details might deviate a lot or a little. It's quite fun to consider that at the end of it all, we remember not what actually happened but what we experienced.

Originally Posted by Carrot

I get that all the time for Asians.

And what's funny is you are Asian and you LIKE Asians... I would think that would be the one ethnicity you would be able to differentiate between. I have this issues with white people... I don't see very many of them on a regular basis. I would be specific as to which 'white' but I never really thought to ask xD Then again, I get people asking me if I’m so and so and that I look really familiar when I don’t know them at all. I guess they haven’t figured out differences in my ethnic background either.