Perceptual Accentuation is almost a state of mind, it when you really want to believe something so bad that sometimes you can actually picture it. People who are really thirsty can picture an oasis in the desert. This is an extreme case but it goes to show how real and powerful this can be. This effects us all whether we know it or not. Perceptual accentuation is also created when we want something to be there or true, we don't just have to need the water in an oasis or a cigarette, we can also get caught up in a story and exaggerate the details to point where we believe the story to be true even if it isn't.
             A few weeks ago I was up in Pittsburgh NH snowmobiling with my father and uncle, we stayed on a lake called Back Lake. One night after dinner I decided to go for a ride on the lake, on the way back I went to turn into my condo which was on the lake. I slowed down to take the turn like I had done dozens of times before, however this time I hit an ice expansion crack in the lake. Expansion cracks are caused when the ice shifts and one part rises up above the previous flat surface leaving a flat wall of ice. I went to turn and caught the ice with the snowmobile. I was thrown from the sled and the machine rolled over twice. I got the machine started and went in to the condo where my father was and asked me how my ride was.
             I began to tell him how it was twelve below and snowing so visibility was low. He went outside and noticed a crack on his windshield. At this point he know something had happened. I told him that I stopped to turn around on the trail and I slipped and fell on the plastic windshield. I was trying to convince him that I did not flip his sled. I wanted to believe that I had not flipped it that I even convinced myself in the story. I went into details and did everything I could not to let him what I had done. By the time I was done talking I had forgot
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