Guest Posted July 4, 2016 Posted July 4, 2016 17 minutes ago, Calm said: I think it likely that both families were so focused on their experience with Pres. Hunter that they had tunnel vision rather than mentally phasing out the other family because 'seeing what they wanted to see'. Definitely shows though how we can fool ourselves. I was just reading an article about how dreams incorporate memory with the suggestion (if I understood it correctly, it was a skim in the therapist's office) that at times the dream may alter or even become part of the memory. Such studies of memory definitely make it obvious that memory is not a simple reliving of a past experience like the replay of a video, but an experience in and of itself and thus should not be expected to be a record of the past event even if we live and make judgments based on memory as if they are. You are right...my family and theirs were focused on a wonderful happenstance.
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