Ever Wish You Could Control Memory?

Discussion in 'Pandora's Box' started by travilanche, Apr 18, 2014.

  1. #1 travilanche, Apr 18, 2014
    I was just thinking about how awesome it would be if you could forget things that blew your mind the first time around and experience it for the first time again.

    For example...I don't really have anything funny on TV to watch right now, and last year I watched Parks & Recreation on Netflix for the first time. But you can really only enjoy something like that the first time around. So I was thinking it would be totally tits if I could completely forget all about watching it and watch it again for the first time.

    The same would be awesome for things like movies, or especially video games. Playing Red Dead Redemption is one of the greatest experiences of my life. But if I could forget all about it and play it again for the first time I totally would without question.

    Anyone else wish they could do this?
     
  2. #2 Dopenologist, Apr 18, 2014
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    If we can download it, we can erase it.
     
  3. #3 travilanche, Apr 18, 2014
    I don't know that I want to erase it...I just want to temporarily forget.
     
  4. #4 Juan Hitter Quitter, Apr 18, 2014
    .......what?
     
  5. #5 dankness420, Apr 18, 2014
    Be careful what you wish for.
     
    But I agree some things are hard to experience again to the fullest.
     
  6. #6 Cawdswallup, Apr 18, 2014
    You can can forget where you placed the memory but it is always there.
     
  7. #7 Cactus Ed, Apr 18, 2014
    As my memory get worse and worse I find I enjoy watching movies a second or third time, not only because I forgot a lot of details but it's easier to follow the plot if I have some idea of where it's going.
     
  8. #8 TheLonelyStoner420, Apr 18, 2014
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    This would be great for people with like PTSD. What if you could forget all the bad that haunts you? You could go through life as the happiest person knowing that your life is nothing but good experiences. You'd be eternally optimistic.
     
  9. #9 Dr. Sheldon Cooper, Apr 19, 2014
    I wish I could do this for my memory of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind so that I could go buy the movie and blast it apart with a 12ga and never watch it to begin with.
     
  10. #10 -Martyr, Apr 19, 2014
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    The ephemeral nature of the body, mind, and soul, offers the only true incentive to change, challenge, and learn. The fact that you cannot access what's sometimes too buried- either by the sands of time or repression, makes the present a constant state of versatility and adaptation. It's your taproot. I think people already spend too much time on the past, and maybe even a little too much time thinking hypothetically about the future, to say with a straight face that they want to be able to have full control of the entirety of their mental hard drive.
     
  11. #11 AMX-002, Apr 20, 2014
    I say try and watch some of it again you might be surprised what you have forgotten

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  12. #12 weeddude101, Apr 23, 2014
    Answer to ops problem. Get really drunk whenever you watch your series(whatever it may be) and then you WILL have big parts and even (in my case) entire episodes you have zero recolection of seeing before so its like watching it again. Or at least thats how BMS was for me.. And the first season of Psych.

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