Dead Poet's Society: Significant Experiences; The Twists of Life. Significant experiences are moments in life that create change not only in one's present period of life, but also dramatically alter one's view of the surrounding and forthcoming events. The impacts of such experiences are the opening of new doors in life, the realization of possibilities one would have never imagined sitting right under one's nose and the perception of details one never thought important before. They mostly temper peoples views of events, shedding a different hue of light upon them, revealing multiple possibilit