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>You undergo memory treatment, and now your mother who you see once a week is real as far as you know, but really she's an actor Sounds like a sort of reverse
by thatcat 9y ago
>You undergo memory treatment, and now your mother who you see once a week is real as far as you know, but really she's an actor
Sounds like a sort of reverse Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; things could get really awkward and confusing when you end up having partial memories.
But also, possibly a brilliant way to fund nursing homes/increase visitation.
- microcolonel 9y ago> things could get really awkward and confusing when you end up having partial memories. All memories are partial.
- megous 9y agoMemories are modified on retrieval and colored by current emotional state and ideas (and vice versa :)). So they're not even partial. They're messy re-imaginations of past re-imaginations.
- woodrowbarlow 9y agoread-modify-write
- malloryerik 9y agoYes, I was thinking that this should be a Charlie Kaufman movie, or that it's like a Charlie Kaufman movie come to life. And it's like the opposite of Darth Vader. "Luke, I'm not you true father, I'm a member of the Family Romance corporation."
- thanatropism 9y agoLook up the movie _Synecdoche_, where a theater production about the producing of a theater production (about... (about... )...) starts recursively eating real life.