Poll: If You Could Wipe The Memory Of Someone From Your Brain, Would You?

Sassy_C
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 03:18 pm: [report]

My ex and I both hurt each other so much.  It still hurts me to think about him.  I have gotten over all of the things he did to me, but I feel so sad when I think about what I did to him.  I wish I never had to remember those things.  I do hope he is alright now and has completely moved on from me, but not knowing how everything played out when we did finally call it quits for good makes me sad.  So yeah, I would erase him.

lostrun
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 03:48 pm: [report]

Yes, I would erase memories if I could.  I have a lot of people and places I would love to forget.

Lauren Fritsky
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 03:51 pm: [report]

Nah. Though I did have a dream about a scoundrel ex the other night and wondered why. Still wouldn’t erase them.

That is a great movie. I have it coming up on my Netflix queue.

Casper
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 04:01 pm: [report]

Probably not, i did say when i was younger that I’d like my grandfather gone but really the things he put me through made me who i am. I guess it’s going to be a cliche post kind of like what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but the people who have hurt me in the past have made me change and it’s usually for the better. My outlook on that might change when i meet someone that does something truly horrible to me but for now i take the bad people, memories and situations and i see the better side of it, i like who i am as a person now and if i erased one thing from my memory, be it a person I’ve known for years or one person that caused one horrible incident I’d lose the new part of me that came from that. And that one thing could be a vital part of who i am now. So no.

beeper
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 04:24 pm: [report]

Without a doubt.

C.Munro
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 04:52 pm: [report]

No, I couldn’t do that.  It would be like erasing part of my life. 

However, it would be tempting to erase myself from someone else’s memory, were it possible.

tigerstripe
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 05:00 pm: [report]

I’ve had bad relationships, but I wouldn’t erase the memories.  Not only would I make all the same mistakes again, but I wouldn’t be as grateful as I am for the relationship I’m in now.  It would be like living in a spotless house or having a spotless body - perfect, but not me.  Unfamiliar and uncomfortable.
Also, Eric from That 70’s Show chose not to erase his memories of Donna when they broke up and he was visited by the mystical Wayne Knight.  Just sayin’.

moonblossom
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 05:33 pm: [report]

I really do not like it when I go through a bad experience and people say at least I learned something. As if that makes it a worthwhile experience.

Um…yeah…I got sexually harassed and left my career to get away from the harasser. But I learned a lot. I learned stuff like….getting sexually harassed sucks and starting a new career sucks. Duh!

moonblossom
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 05:35 pm: [report]

In case I didn’t make my point in my seemingly off-topic post above….I would totally erase the memories. Some things I know without having to actually learn them.

canadiancutie
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 07:43 pm: [report]

Yep! Sure would. I have far more damage to my psyche than is necessary for “growth” courtesy of bad memories.

canadiancutie
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 07:48 pm: [report]

Besides, SOME of my bad experiences have taught me such wonderful and useful life lessons as, date as many people as you want for the first 90 days of a relationship since the odds of getting screwed over within that timeframe are quite high, moms can be quite abusive during menopause, and ditzy Americans who move to Canada bring their ignorance with them.

Why, who WOULDN’T want to catalogue those things in their brain?

Lexington
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 08:30 pm: [report]

My worst experience I’ve actually mostly erased from my brain- I can tell you step by step what happened and what I did, but as far as actually bringing it to mind, I have to sit there and guide myself through it which I tend to not do unless I’m in the mood for self-punishment. If I was actually going to erase any memories they’d probably be the embarrassing ones. Other than that the terrible memories are the ones that would still affect me on a day to day basis even if I forgot them. Missing people and such. The rest have sort of faded.

*sam*
wrote on September 29 2009 @ 08:31 pm: [report]

No, I would never do this. Like Casper, I feel like everything I’ve been through, even all the sh*tty stuff, is what makes me who I am today. I also firmly believe that you cannot truly love someone until you’ve had your heart broke, b/c you can’t know true happiness without also knowing sorrow.

Though, I totally love this movie.

ChoJinn
wrote on September 30 2009 @ 02:04 am: [report]

I was not a big fan of the movie, and perhaps fittingly I would never attempt to erase any memories.  All of them, good and bad, make up ones life.  To quote a very enigmatic character, we are only what we remember of ourselves.

treehugr
wrote on September 30 2009 @ 08:28 am: [report]

despite that movie being fiction—there are scientists working on rats to modify their memories via little tiny computer chips. this technology may exist sooner than you think! they’re finding that it can store memories, or also erase memories- which could benefit people who have had traumatizing experience, or those with memory loss and Alzheimer’s. Prob not something you’d want to play around with just to erase the memory of an ex, we all learn from our experiences, erasing them could have some negative consequences.

bogart4017
wrote on September 30 2009 @ 10:15 am: [report]

No way. Even the most worse heathen i’ve ever been with has taught me valuable lessons about what i want from a relationship and what i expect from a woman. Like they say live and learn.