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11th September 2014, 07:18 AM | #1 |
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Anybody here have a memory that needs to be erased?
http://news.msn.com/science-technolo...on-be-possible
I sure do. Now that I'm retired I have a lot of time on my hands and as I reflect on my life many of my memories are anything but good. I go to a psychiatrist but the memories linger. Anyone here have the same problem? |
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11th September 2014, 10:28 AM | #2 |
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Yes, I have some memories I'd rather not have.
Even better, I would like these memories to be "at one remote" -- to know that certain events happened, but not to actually remember them. |
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11th September 2014, 10:38 AM | #3 |
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Tough choice- bad memories, or becoming a drooling idiot?
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11th September 2014, 10:40 AM | #4 |
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I understand what your saying. I remember things to avoid because they happened to me personally but I also avoid things that have happened to other people. The things I avoid that happened to others are not painful memories but the bad things that happen to us persoally really hurt and just keep on being painful.
A few things that have happened to me seem like they happened yeaterday when they actually happened decades ago. |
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11th September 2014, 12:59 PM | #5 |
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No. I have one that needs boosted.
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11th September 2014, 01:25 PM | #6 |
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11th September 2014, 01:29 PM | #7 |
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Does this mean I can read the Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time again? I wonder if I'd enjoy them as much on the second 'first' time around though....
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11th September 2014, 01:56 PM | #8 |
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I reckon I can live with bad memories. But I have a vision of something that didn't happen - but nearly did - that torments me over the decades. Involved my young son running behind the car while I was reversing. I saw a movement and stopped, but the thought of what might have happened there ...
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11th September 2014, 01:58 PM | #9 |
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11th September 2014, 02:32 PM | #10 |
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Yes, I do, and although I have hobbies to keep me occupied, I do regret not keeping in touch with all my friends from the past, I wonder where they are, and what they might be doing, as I am not in good health there is little hope I may ever be able to return to the UK and meet them again. It's all gone one might say, and although I can Google some of the places I once lived, it's not really the same. Perhaps these memories where best erased I do miss a walk along an English country lane on a warm summer evening. by the village of Radwinter in Essex, sic transit glori mundi. On the other hand Sweden is a great place if you like fishing, my best catch was an 80cm 5kg sea trout caught outside the Grand Hotel right in the middle of town, no ********, LOL. . |
11th September 2014, 03:18 PM | #11 |
I would save the receptionist.
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As someone who actually suffers from post-traumatic stress, I've been following all sorts of memory-erasing technologies. They don't work. They never work.
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11th September 2014, 06:52 PM | #12 |
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I have plenty of traumatic memories, but in the end I wouldn't want to lose them, because then I might end up in the same exact circumstances that led to them in the first place.
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11th September 2014, 07:36 PM | #13 |
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I tried something. If I was having a series of bad memories, I tried picking one out, and turning it into an internal stand-up comedy routine. The first one was about my abusive, mentally ill mother, but it became a skit about growing up with her.
The best one had to do with my fleeing from her home when I was a teenager and moved to Hollywood. As soon as I moved out she got a Golden Retriever and named her - Julia. My name. The poor dog was a neurotic mess before she was a year old. But it has worked a few times. Lately, when I find myself dwelling, I make an attempt to jump to a better memory. Some times are easier then others. |
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11th September 2014, 08:29 PM | #14 |
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Even if we dismiss potential (and intentional) misuse, another step towards blurring reality and fantasy? Oh goody. And no thx. I have my share of bad memories to put it mildly, but I'll pass on something that sounds like a sci fi flick that would be infinitely scarier in real life.
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12th September 2014, 01:30 PM | #15 |
I would save the receptionist.
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12th September 2014, 03:33 PM | #16 |
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12th September 2014, 08:35 PM | #18 |
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12th September 2014, 09:05 PM | #19 |
I would save the receptionist.
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I really don't care. I was in intensive care for a month in 2005 and two weeks in 2013. The last time, I was extubated and then reintubated three times. I was not allowed food or water until the last day. My defibrilator went off four times in two days. Those couple weeks occupy about two-thirds of my memories. I remember that time twice as often as I remember all of the rest of my life. Freedom from that would be ... it would be a gift. |
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12th September 2014, 09:42 PM | #20 |
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I don't know how much I can relate to that. There are memories of mine that I've wanted so desperately to be rid of that I have wished on multiple occasions I could travel back in time and alter the past. They've never put me in the hospital due to full blown panic attack though, so it's not the same.
I just can't help but see all the possible ways this could backfire, or have even worse consequences. What if the memory erasure wipes out everything from that point up to the present? What if it causes brain damage in some other areas that wipes out my mental faculties? I don't know if this procedure is precise and safe, or if it's more like firing a shotgun into the brain. |
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13th September 2014, 06:20 AM | #21 |
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I'll bet Peyton Manning would like to see this technology perfected.
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13th September 2014, 07:40 AM | #22 |
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I am still trying to forget being pranked by a friend into seeing goatse-man. or two girls and a cup.
At the reflection rather than changing my memory i shoudl change my friends . |
13th September 2014, 07:52 AM | #23 |
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