new technologies: memory implants?

[Giraffey]

You raise an important point @Underscore, not everybody will be responsive enough to hypnosis in order to experience the anaesthesia necessary for dealing with the physical effects of the process of death. Not to sound egotistical here but it definitely does also make a difference how competent and experienced your practitioner is, although as you also very rightly point out, we can't question the dead, and it's not exactly practical to stick people in fMRI scanners to capture the moment that they die. No experiments have been conducted on using hypnosis to alleviate the symptoms of death, so I can only speak of my experience in using hypnosis to manage pain in general. It's certainly an area of considerable complexity.

 

[Mr2005]

Remembering something that didn't happen as well as forgetting things that did. Living a lie basically but it's the only way I can carry on. The reality is just too awful, too painful

 

[Disappointered]

Remembering something that didn't happen as well as forgetting things that did. Living a lie basically but it's the only way I can carry on. The reality is just too awful, too painful

I wish I could even get that far.

But honestly, I get the impression that most happy successful people (and even many others) do that to some extent with selective memory and denial. Sometimes people mistake memories of dreams for memories of real events. I do think people's memories can be altered. That's why I was feeling hopeful about some kind of radical intervention.

 

[Giraffey]

I wish I could even get that far.

But honestly, I get the impression that most happy successful people (and even many others) do that to some extent with selective memory and denial. Sometimes people mistake memories of dreams for memories of real events. I do think people's memories can be altered. That's why I was feeling hopeful about some kind of radical intervention.

I know it's not the same @Lovequenel but one of the techniques I developed during my darkest days was a variant of the mnemonic memory strategy, the method of loci, that I call my "happy memory palace". Essentially, I have a mental map of a childhood family home which holds fond memories for me, and whenever I'm feeling sad or besieged by bad memories, I can step into that mental image and walk a set route through the house. Inside I have hundreds of places where I've placed different mental objects, each one is associated with a really happy or positive memory, and by walking through and focusing on a particular object, I can recall that particular happy memory and all of the lovely emotions attached to it.

It takes practice and rehearsal and I recognise that it's probably different for me seeing as I'm not clinically depressed, but it's an example of how I use a memory strategy as a coping mechanism. Another technique I've used often in the past is a memory destabilisation technique that I adapted from research into treatments for PTSD, it's similar in some ways to the process by which EMDR works.

As I think I discussed above, there will be a point in the future where TMS or other brain stimulation techniques might be used to erase specific memories, but as of yet, although memories are plastic and able to be manipulated to an extent, there's still no golden bullet.

 

[TooConscious]

They can do anything they want, everything exists in this world and is just suppressed to most of it. Or used on unwilling participants. Look how the media is mind control on a massive scale. Those who aggressively deny it is are the biggest victims. Of course I'm too much of an addict myself to realize the control it has over me. I'll be requesting a TV if there's another shit evil existence after this one.