Nothing Is Real In Brave New World

Memories guide us through life.They guide us so we can reach perfection. Have you ever been in the

People can remember the smallest things but totally miss the bigger picture like what actually happened in that memory. For example, they can remember the bright white shirt their cousin was wearing and the smell of food cooking in the air but not that that was the day they all had a big family reunion. Certain places can live on in a person's memory because of sensory details.

Throughout our lives, we definitely have gone through a lot of experiences and made memories. Some of the memories are easily forgotten, while some others are remembered distinctively, vividly and can be recollected confidently. This is called the flashbulb memory. Flashbulb memory is like a very clear picture of a particularly impactful event which had caused one to be affected emotionally. For example, I remember this performance that my school choir was performing. It was during Christmas season and we decided to spray bubble foam to portray fake snow. However, the plan backfired when the wind blew at our direction and all the foam flew back to us. This was remembered very clearly because I was embarrassed and had experienced something so

Let take for example the super bowl. I can remember super bowl Sunday, family and friends come over, has we prepare to watch the game. The house’s alive with children noises, cousin and friends run in and out of the yard playing and causing mischief and grown folks are shouting and auguring about politics and religion. My wife and her sisters are cooking and Me, I’m in my man cave playing Xbox, with my brother and our friends, reminiscing

False memory, second to forgetting, is one of the two fundamental types of deformation in episodic memory (Holliday, Brainerd & Reyna, 2010). Simply stated, false memory is the propensity to account normal occurrences as being a fraction of a key experience that in actuality was not an element of that experience (Holliday, Brainerd & Reyna). False memories are something nearly everyone experience. Furthermore, false memory is defined as placed together, constructed representations of mental schemas that are incorrect (Solso, MacLin & MacLin, 2008). Individuals do not intentionally fabricate their memory. However, perceptual and social factors are a few things that a responsible for manipulating memory (Solso, MacLin & MacLin, 2008).

Not adhering or clinging to the facts of the narrative is later described as pointless. In this case, the world is saying to disregard the things that add to one’s identity. “You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard” (Rankine 63). Describing memory as facts show that there is some clear evidence to those memories regardless of what the world says. The importance of those facts in memories experienced through an individual help create that individuals present identity.

Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley is a bizarre, infertile novel, and starts out in a futuristic society known as “the World State” with a group of young students receiving a tour of the “London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre” from The Director. This novel is strange by having its system running in different casts like, Alphas, Betas, Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons. Another way this is bizarre, is the whole world is taking soma to send them into “lunar eternity”, to escape from reality. This is anomalous because the Bokanovsky and Podsnap processes authorizes the hatchery to create practically identical human embryos.

There are two prominent distortions of the episodic memory system: forgetting and the false memory effect. False memory is the propensity to report an event as part of an episodic experience that was not actually present (Holliday, Brainerd, & Reyna, 2011). Several theories give an explanation for this effect, but the most prominent one is the fuzzy trace theory,

Even if you had a perfect recording of what happened in the past, you’d never have a perfect memory. Each time you’d play it back, your experience of that memory would change based on how you’re feeling, who’s with you, and what’s happened since the recording was made. The more you’d revisit the memory, the more it would change. Certain details would stick out, others would be forgotten, and false memories could easily be created if people lie about what’s happening in the recording. Relying on recordings also gets in the way of forming memories.

Fallibility of Memory can affect the way we see things in our daily life more than we can see. Our mind can turn stories from other people into what we think is our own memory. “‘... you know Robert, you weren’t there!’”(NPR Networks 2:12). In the animated video, This American Life: Animation from Season 2, there is a man and his wife who both think they experienced an event until the man’s wife tells him that he wasn’t even there. Because the woman had told him the story a few times and a few more to others in front of him, his mind had changed the memory of his wife telling him the story to him actually being there to experience the story.

"You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it…fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf–your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens” (John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman). According to this quote, a human is incapable of leaving their reality alone; at one point or another, they will feel the need to either change their perception of their life or abandon it. If real life holds nothing of worth, it is only fitting that a person would want to escape that reality, but it is important to remember to not lose sight of all that is real.

False memories include distorting features of events and situations or recalling facts and memories that never occurred at all (Roediger and McDermott, 1995).

Memory does not work like a video camera, smoothly recording every detail. Instead, memory is more of a constructive process. We remember the details that we find most important and relevant. Due to the reconstructive nature of memory, the assimilation of old and new information has the ability to cause vulnerable memories to become distorted. This is also known as the misinformation effect (Loftus, 1997). It is not uncommon for individuals to fill in memory gaps with what they assume they must have experienced. We not only distort memories for events that we have observed, but, we may also have false memories for events that never occurred at all. False memories are “often created by combing actual memories with suggestions received from

In Tennessee Williams description of memory, where he states "The scene is memory and is non-realistic". I agree with the statement, the memory one has ingrained in their mind is from the perspective of theirs. What they recollect about evidently does not depict on what occurred during that time frame, your vision is not vivid in its clarity as per its brightness, and everything rightfully follows by your sentiments. Tom here is foreshadowing his belief of memory that accord to his experiences of a clusterized idea of unfulfilled aspirations and regrets that are kept a veil on by overwhelming burdens remained. It indirectly makes a connection to the modern day perception of memory to be defined by unconsciously alternating it to fit our unconscious

Before considering whether or not memories affect our reality, it may be useful to offer a definition of the term ‘reality’. If we are to