Sentence examples for waking memory from inspiring English sources
In Consciousness Explained, Dennett (1991) uses a similar thought experiment to undermine the distinction between memory insertion and memory revision for waking memory reports (see also Emmett 1978 for a critical discussion of this point).
What worries him is that these dream images are not faint, as in waking memory, but rather involve pleasure as well as something resembling acquiescence or consent to the act.
The most vivid passages in "The Tattoo Artist" describe the practices and beliefs of the South Sea islanders: "Before the Ta'un'uuans begin a journey, they dream their route, then fabricate, to the best of their waking memory, a map of their vision.
While dreams rarely involve episodic replay of waking memories (Fosse et al. 2003), there is preliminary evidence suggesting that performance in a virtual navigation task improves following daytime naps, and that the effect is especially strong in subjects who report task-related mentation (Wamsley & Stickgold 2009, 2010; Wamsley et al. 2010).
This observation suggests that waking memories and sleep-associated memories may serve distinct purposes, for example, to aid learning and planning or to stabilize the memories.
Experiment 1 showed that a night of sleep indeed benefits both knowledge types: Whereas shared and unique features showed forgetting (especially for well-learned items) over wake, memory was preserved for unique features and improved for shared features over sleep regardless of initial encoding strength.
First I tried the smell of "violets that woke the memory of dead romances" from Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray.
When I returned to the hospice the next morning, Murray Cutler looked weaker, vaguer, but hearing me speak he became attentive, as though the sound of my voice had woken a memory in him.
But it also has some choices that will force you to wake up memory cells you may not have used in a while (cells that viewers under a certain age won't have at all).
So it made more sense to focus on the negative effects of waking experience on memory, rather than attribute some biological phenomenon in sleep that actively strengthened memory.
According to a gallery note, Walls depicts "the states between visual perception, memory, waking life and dreams". But the artist's style seems too concrete to evoke such intangibilities.
