Essays on Memories

One of the biggest regrets in my life was not talking to my dear grandfather before he passed away. My grandfather was a proud man and one of the people I respect most in my entire life. He had countless amounts of amazing experiences, all,…

Deja vu is a feeling of having already experienced the present situation. Frequently, deja vu hits more times than we can count. When it does, it’s creepy effects leaves people feeling as though they are floating in the clouds of wonder for a few minutes…

Self-portraying recollections are memories that are impacted by desires before events ever happen and by rumination sometime later. These memories are additionally impacted by different encounters, for example, photos, other individuals’ records, and even irrelevant occasions and our objectives and thought processes at the season…

The hospital room was lit up by the late summer sun and the sound of the families going to the circus just below the window made it sound like everything would be ok. I would always climb onto the window ledge and watch the parents…

Almost everyone has at least one strong, vivid, emotional memory of a significant and/or shocking event that has occurred in their past, no matter how long ago it happened. This kind of memory is called a flashbulb memory. Flashbulb memories are very intense and vivid…

I enjoyed writing this document, because it gave me a chance to write about a personal experience, which is not something that I get to do very often. I found it much easier to write in a casual, personal tone than I do for a…

Looking back over the events in my life, I cannot say that I have ever been as scared as I was in that moment. My life had revolved around Sunday dinners at my grandmother’s house and now, as we waited for the doctor to deliver…

Have you ever had this strange feeling that you feel like you have seen or experienced whatever that is happening now before? Or even dreamt about it before? Déjà vu is a kind of feeling. In French, déjà vu means “already seen”. It is a…

Meet Henry Gustav Molaison, a man who saw his doctor every day for many years and introduced himself every time as if they had never met [1].Molaison suffered from anterograde amnesia, the inability to form new memories [1]. How did he come to have this…

Nowadays, the prospect of long-distance relationships seems like a thing in the past. Repeatedly criticized by its opponents, the image of long-distance relationships have been tossed around and pushed aside. However, the downsides and the failures of a long-distance relationship lies within the beholder and…

The target paper had strengths that ensured its successful outcomes-yet contained limitations that could have been improved to have effective outcomes. One of the advantages of the study is the methodology used in the study. For example, Talarico and Rubin (2003) used random assignment to…

Memories of Loch Erin Decades ago, my Grandparents were one of the first residents to purchase property on Loch Erin, a conglomeration of Irish neighborhoods situated around a man-made lake. My Papa, a decorated math professor, thought it would be a great place to retire…

Absolut Memory Distortions Alcohol Placebos Influence the Misinformation Effect conducted by Seema L. Assefi and Maryanne Garry in January of 2003 aims to answer one question; Does suggesting that you have consumed alcohol affect your memory of an event? While formulating the study, the research…

Introduction: Flashbulb memories arise out of situations in which one first hears of a surprising or emotionally arousing event (Brown & Kulik,1977). (Spanhel, Wagner, Geiger, Ofer, Schulze-Bonhage & Metternich (2018) categorizes FBM’s as a subgroup of autobiographical memories that are associated with emotionally arousing news….

Dancing at Lughnasa is about the ideological, historical, and cultural issues in the fictional town of Ballybeg, Ireland. Michael Evans speaks of the memories growing up when he was seven years old with his unmarried mother and aunts, (acknowledged as the Mundy sisters in the…