Creating FALSE MEMORIES

The starting point for Total Recall is the idea that fake memories can be implanted in a person’s brain, such as memories of an exotic holiday they never actually had. This isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds, because memory isn’t as cast iron as we think. Only a fraction of our experiences get filed away as long-term memories, and these have a tendency to distort slightly each time we remember them. It’s even possible to convince people they had completely fictitious experiences, which they then recall just like real memories.

For example, if a friend ‘reminds’ you that you had a flight in a hot-air balloon and shows you a doctored photograph of the occasion, you may become convinced you remember it even though it never happened. Also, patients who suffer anxiety due to unpleasant memories can have those memories swapped for pleasant ones through hypnosis.

Hypnosis can be used to overwrite ones unpleasant memories with positive In the process of implanting memories involves a rather daunting machine Scientists have succeeded in implanting false memories in a laboratory mouse