Is there any particular event in your life you'd rather forget...or maybe a particular time period? It might be possible some day as researchers can now erase memory in mice using nothing more than a chemical compound. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/22/scimind122.xml
I wouldn't mind forgetting that memory of me walking in on Grandma and Grandpa while they were "wrestling" Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
No because you always learn something from whatever happens to you and if you were to forget what happened and how, it could happen again.
No way. Not all of my memories are pleasant ones, but I think our experiences make us who we are, without those experiences who knows what we might change into.
Carcano, i doubt it would work on normal memories anyway. Its being designed to deal with PTSD where the memories are overly strong. If they started using it on weaker memories (where the person is more likly to have a sudden shift in there thinking) you could go in to wipe out memories of your ex and end up forgetting your current partner instedPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Certain memories can create all kinds of irrational fears or guilt that might severely inhibit your enjoyment of life. It may be who you are...but its not who you want to be.
Experience can ruin a person too. Note how musicians/composers sometimes talk about losing the innocence and freshness of the creative spirit they had when they were younger.
Carcano, if we ignore PTSD for a moment i have to agree with Cutsie, even traumatic memories make us who we are. For instance the bike acident i witnessed was one of the contributing factors in my deciding to go to uni and study paramedics. If i hadnt witnessed that i would probably still be stuck working in a kitchen and hating it.
Or...you could opt to erase whatever circumstances imparted the notion that sex is something people should be embarrassed to witness.
In that case the experience is one you perceive as desirable. But suppose you were attacked by a dog at the age of five, and were thus terrified of dogs for the rest of your life?
you missunderstand me, the memory itself is something i wish i could forget. Seeing someone die infront of you isnt a plesant experiance but if i removed that then who am i? I do have some experiance with abnesia, i was assulted in highschool and the blow to my head means i cant rember almost anything about the incident, yet it happened to me and even though i know its not a pleasent memory i still find myself trying to rember it Not to mention the fact that just because the memory is erased doesnt nessarly mean that the anxiaty will disapate automatically either. Alot of people are afraid of hights (including my father), yet there is no specific incident to tie this fear to. Would it cause a person more distress or less to find they are still afraid of dogs but now they have no idea WHY?, nothing they can work through?
Some fears in moderate measure are a good thing. For example, there are people with a rare condition that inhibits the fear center in the brain...making them extremely reckless and accident prone.
yes i have herd of that, isnt the condition related to an undeveloped pain responce and under developed dopamine pathways or is that a different condition? They cant feel any pain and they get less pleasure out of the risk so they take bigger risks and if they dont die from putting there body into to hot water, they die from the increasingly bigger risks they take?
I'd like to erase the last 2 months my best friend was in the hospital & the 2 months after her death. The person she put in charge of things made the experience 3000 times as bad as it should have been.
I don't have any truly disturbing memories; the unpleasant reminiscences I do have are only something to learn from. Ignorance may be bliss, but sometimes it's comforting to know what you're up against in this world.