And on the original subject, the tobacco companies initially had the warning changed to "Not smoking is good for you."
Then people forgot the "not."
heh....funny dlowan, I read just a tad on flashbulb memories just yesterday, while looking up info on muscle memory, which noddy had brought up on another thread.
I have this "flashbulb memory" that I know has to be totally false, yet, there it is.
I was born in Dec of 1958....Kennedy was killed in Nov of 1963. That would have made me one month shy of 5 years old. I wasn't even in kindergarden yet.
Yet....I have this vivid memory of being in 2nd grade, hearing the announcement over the P.A. system, going home and watching the proceedings. I remember the school desks, the other kids, looking up at the speaker on the wall...even looking at the clock and seeing it was around 2 o'clock (which was, Eastern time, when he was shot). Strange, I just now looked up that time when "seeing" my memory, and was surprised it was what I falsely remember.
Weird stuff.
I also feel, as opposed to know, that there is a storymaking component in our brain functioning, during waking hours as well as sleeping ones, though the story material may differ in the wake time - deliberately accessed, perhaps, as opposed to some other process in sleep's rem-time. And, that the storymaking may slip slide to what seems right from today's point of view rather than what happened in 1977... not on purpose, or at least not always, but some natural adjustment for 'fit'.
I've found recently that I have trouble remembering for sure now some facts I've always known. For example, with whom I went to such and such an event, or had such and such experience (too many boyfriends...) I feel this is a factor of my aging process, not so much that I have cells or synaptic exchanges pooping out, which I do, but that some factual memory may need repeated visiting or confusion sets in. I think this is slightly different than the myth-fact question of the thread.
