Comments on: Your Eyes Reveal Memories That Your Conscious Brain Forgot

By: Largolinda

Largolinda — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:45:32 +0000

Sorry, I meant HER abuse on me.

By: Largolinda

Largolinda — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:32:34 +0000

I should let this out there, and here is the site to do so, to help others. When I was 21 (now 63), I knew I had suppressed an entire childhood of memories and decided to retrieve them. Through age-regression self-hypnosis (bought a book on it), I was able to bring myself back to the age of somewhere between 3 and 6 months. It took a year and a half, and I documented every analysis. After that, I mulled it over for another year and a half and finally approached my mother about my recollections. She s*** a brick. Yes, everything one experiences as a child can be dug up! Her comments were more amazing than my abuse.

[Moderator's note: Edited the cuss word.]

By: bobrhorman

bobrhorman — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:25:50 +0000

wow this is just like in artemis fowl where they record the things that you see from teh eye movements and the micro scratches despite the fact that their memories were erased!

By: shibaram jena

shibaram jena — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:31:51 +0000

i have forgot my memory,how do i get my present memory.

By: Kath Ling

Kath Ling — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:53:56 +0000

Could you recommend any specific resources, books, or other blogs on this topic?

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:38:25 +0000

This also fits with the trauma treatments EMDR and the similar EMT (which also incorporates NLP practice) – eye movement therapies that bring memories up from the unconscious, enabling trauma to be resolved. I don’t think this study adds anything to previous research in these fields.

By: Glynn

Glynn — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:27:48 +0000

So what happens when you get an eye tranplant! Wow all those new memories!

By: NreeK

NreeK — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:55:24 +0000

OK, a few questions:

The trick will be: how to get in tune with your hippocampus, if that is at all possible? Is it a feeling that we get when in the presence of the correct answer (like a gut instinct)?

I was thinking about the implications of doing a test on people with questions they have no chance of knowing the answer…. then I told my wife about this article and she asked much the same question,……..so here it is a little more succinctly:

Does the hippocampus activate when focusing on the correct answer of a question the conscious mind has no chance of knowing?

The experiment could include information that is close to consciousness in the collective psyche and information far more obscure eg: questions that involve new knowledge that humanity has only discovered; old long forgotten knowledge such as obscure ancient theological texts or superstitious beliefs from extinct civilisations; and old knowledge that was once well known collectively.

By: Ruben Dagda

Ruben Dagda — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:55:11 +0000

Obviously, this is nothing new. It has been known for decades that the hippocampus is the brain region involved in learning new memories and in recall. Consider what happens to an advanced Alzheimer’s patient. In conjuncition with the amygdala (a brain region involved in emotional associative memory), the hippocampus associates feeling and emotions while recalling pleasant or frightful experiences. The fact that students who take a multiple choice exam and do not come up with a righ answer even though they initally choose the right one, but later change their mind means a lack of sufficient memory consolidation. A lack of sufficient study by repetition or association means that neurons have not made strong connections and neural pathways (long term potentiation). The hippocampus is needed in both concious and unconcious recall; many of us recall facts during our sleep which we were unable to recall conciously.

By: nicko

nicko — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:03:49 +0000

Calling Transdisciplinary (ists). How does this discovery translate to nurturing memory in the educational arena, in the early developmental years ? How can it be made beneficial to educators/caregivers etc to promote best practices?