The Bernstein Bear Interpretation

Recently I’ve been exploring a new and fairly bizarre concept of physiological psychology claiming that most of our most vivid memories are actually wrong. It seems so deeply frightening that our most detailed and intense memories may not be nearly as truthful as we think. Memories that we as individuals are absolutely POSITIVE about may actually be distorted and/or fabricated in our own minds without us consciously being aware of it. One cooky discrepancy in the realm of (what I strongly believe to be) my own memories is that I clearly remember my favorite children’s book being titled “ The Bernstein Bears,” when in fact it is actually called “The Bernstain Bears,” and has always been titled as such. Apparently, I’m not alone in this… there is a whole conspiracy about the title of the book. One of my friends had caught wind of this wild phenomenon and had told me about the Bernstein/Bernstain bears debate and I absolutely went into a panic. For her, it was just a …show more content…
He asked his students the day after the explosion to write down their memories of what had occurred, what they were wearing, where they were, what the News coverage was like on TV, basically everything they could remember about their day and the event. Three years down the road, he asked those same students to write down their memories a second time. Astonishingly, over ninety percent of the reports differed from what the students had previously reported three years earlier. One student was shown her report that she had written the day after the event and she shuddered in disbelief as I had upon releasing that I had misremembered the name of my beloved childhood story book characters. After she read her reports on the event three years earlier she said, “I know that’s my handwriting, but I couldn’t possibly have written