Can Reality Be Edited or Censored Like TV?
 

For example: A normal looking woman in raggedy clothes speaking the "truth" is changed into a raving mad hobo screaming nonsense and gibberish.

Like maybe even an entire event is edited out of your memory or even an entire day shrugged off because you didn't do much and slept late...

Could they really change what a person says and their appearance because it doesn't fit into whatever is "Acceptable"...???

Items misplaced? "Deja Vu"

The possibilities are endless. I was watchin TV and wondered "hey what if they could do that for real..."

Thoughts, suggestions?

Very true.

Not only could it be done on TV, but just think of how our memory works. You're more likely to notice someone out of the "norm" than someone who is in it, but not all the details. Exaggerations in memory are easy to see.

Just like is said in Memento "Memory can change the color of a car or the shape of a room". We change our views to make our reality more palatable. Basically, we see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear.

Makes sense

YZ always with the good ideas :p

or maybe they made u say that?!

lol

I know a lot of females who never write anything good to memory.

Too much Matrix for you Mac :p

But an interesting concept to say none the less :)

i think u edit it yourself in your mind basedon your own intrest or beliefs, the exampole of the crazy women you think shes crazy cuz society will tell u that any person fitting that description is a crackhead and thier screaming nonsense.

It's actually been proven in psychological studies that the human mind just naturally does that-- you only see what we expect to see. If I remember right one of the studies had a professor take his class to a basketball game and tells them to count the number of passes. In the middle of the game, this guy in a gorilla suit goes running down the court, but afterwards only a few of the students even remembered seeing it! :o

There this gal I like... too much. Everytime I go somewhere, almost every gal that even looks remotely like her (similar hair style, height, skin tone, body type [rare]) my brain automatically thinks it is her, but upon a double-take, I realize it isn't :(

Can reality be censored? I thought you meant like, someone strips down suddenly in the middle of the street and out of nowhere they become pixelated and you are unable to see their nudeness. Heh. That'd freak the hell out of me.

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Our minds are exceptional at choosing what we "should" and "shouldn't" remember. I've personally developed an ultra-selective memory about stuff. Unfortunately, it ruins my short-term memory for stuff that I NEED to remember at a set time. Only lets me remember stuff that happens incidentally. Grrr.

Uncanny. This very closely describes me. My ultra-selective memory tends to ruin my short-term memory. Thing is that I usually remember important things. I memorized two phone numbers yesterday. I called a friend, his mother answered, I asked for his cellphone #. She told it to me once, and I still have it in memory. I also had to look up his home phone number (I have an address book on my computer), I only looked at it once, and right now still have it in memory. I also tend to remember URL's, even long ones, like http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp, which will point you to the ever-useful MSDN (for developers, mainly). Sometimes I do forget important stuff, like the fact that three days ago my friend supposedly told me twice that Saturday was going to be his birthday party. I honestly don't remember him telling me a single time. He canceled the party anyway because he decided to go work that night. Stuff like that.

And all this time I thought I was the only weirdo who intentionally did this to himself. I wasn't always like this. I decided about a year and a half ago that not everything I see is worth remembering, only things I decide are worth remembering. This has, of course, worked against me more times than once. Oh well.

EDIT: I'd also like to note that I have a friend who lives in Holland, and she sometimes teaches me a bit of Dutch when she signs on. I've learned such words as vergevingsgezind, which is Dutch slang for something similar to "cool", and goedheiligman, which is Dutch for "good night". Those are the longest examples of words she's taught me so far. If I think something is worth remembering, I will. Also have a bunch of Japanese words in my memory bank, even though I can't speak Japanese...

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I believe it can. Forgetting your dreams is an example of this, your mind knows that they may just confuse you, so it wipes them from your memory (usually)