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"Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know."
From Song of Sapphique
~Incarceron by Catherine Fisher |
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Can you imagine waking up not remembering anything about yourself or your life? What was your name? Where did you live? Who were your parents and siblings? Were you married or in love? Did you have children? What was your job? Who were your friends? Did you have any friends? Were you rich or poor?
The people around you would all seem like strangers, and you wouldn't know whether to trust them or not.
Significant memory loss is called amnesia. It is relatively uncommon on its own, but may be a symptom of several different conditions, such as dementia, Alzheimers, brain injury, brain tumors, or severe alcoholism.
Infantile amnesia, or lack of memories of being a baby or young child, is very common. Most people don't remember much about their lives before the age of about two.
Retrograde amnesia involves forgetting events of the past, while people who suffer from anterograde amnesia are unable to make new memories. In the movie "Memento," the main character suffers from anterograde amnesia.
Total amnesia, or forgetting everything, is very rare in real life, and is often temporary.
Dissociative amnesia happens when your mind blocks out important information, causing gaps in your memory. It usually results from traumatic experiences, such as abuse, war, or natural disasters. It is our mind's way of protecting us from these experiences. The memory loss might affect all events of a certain time period or or only some topics and situations. Usually, the memories are not completely gone, but the person is unable to access them. In some cases, they might not be aware that they have gaps in their memory. Others might have disturbing flashbacks in which they suddenly recall disturbing events. Shaye Archer, the main character in Jana DeLeon's book series by the same name, suffered from dissociative amnesia due to extreme abuse, and began having flashbacks before recalling all the traumatic events.
Something to try: Write a horror story in which a character has dissociative amnesia. |
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