I thought by not thinking about my favourite films that I'd forget them more... But this video seems to state that the more we think about the more we'll forget... So, I guess I need to start thinking about them more!! 😂
Can science please erase my bad memories. Every time I remember them I fall into deep depression and I can’t control it, I have mental breakdowns and really bad trust issues triggered by these memories. Sometimes I am able to forget about them and live normally for a short while, but then they start again. I am at a loss of what to do. Please. I need help.
Skitty the Dictator Still persons who are crying on the internet because their life is sooo horrible and they are sooo depressed and want to kill themselves.
A drug can change the way a stress or fear memory feels, but this can also be achieved through any technique that utilizes memory reconsolidation. Two therapies in particular, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), initiate memory reconsolidation with eye movements and imagery recall. EMDR and ART both activate reconsolidation by having you use imagery to recall the stress or fear event. The recall of this stressful event activates a physical response you can feel in your body. The fear imagery is reviewed while your body’s physical responses is regulated with eye movements, tapping or even coaching with guided imagery. By repeatedly reviewing the fear imagery over the course of about 10 minutes the physical response is diminished and the fear is desensitized. At this point a new and desired response to that fear memory is elicited. You can imagine how you’d like your future self to feel about this memory, or imagine that you tell yourself something different about that experience This is called voluntary image replacement and it is used to elicit the new and desired emotion to replace the fear response. Positive imagery is used to rehearse the future desired response when the targeted stress cue is again encountered. The result is very similar to erasure, the fear memory is removed, leaving only the new, positive association.
The semantic network model also explains how memories cues can trigger one memory activating associated memories. Hence, the more we can relate things together the more they're likely to be remembered. This also means that memories that have little amount of association to other memories are also more likely to be deleted or forgotten.
Well, technically criminals don't need to wait until after everything is done... A lot of criminals give their victims "roofies" or Rohypnol so that it's hard for them to create the memories in the first place.
@@ceseba9938 im pretty sure every one learns from their mistake so it would probably best if they forget how they grow cuz sometime it also brings them down just saying
@@miko5742 i will give an example, let's say i am baking a cake and i overmixed the batter and the cake was chewier. Next time i will mix it less so it won't be that chewy and this is how i will memorize the recipe, with the mistakes i did. But if i suddenly say "ugh i was so stupid to overmix that batter" and i erase the memories of me overmixing then i will forget that i shouldn't overmix the batter which will then cause me to not be able to do remember the recipe correctly Ik this was a very long of an example but overall this is what i mean, people learn from their mistakes. Think for yourself you will remember the stupid sh*t you did in class better than the bravos you got
While it might be interesting to delete certain memories so we don't have to remember trauma, or to have the possibility of reliving an amazing feeling, I don't think I would use it... Life is for experiencing, and memories make up who you are. We learn from memories and without them we would just end up in an infinite loop. So I'll keep them... both good ones and bad ones alike...
what if you can cure a mentally ill person if you delete the traumatic experience that caused them to be mentally unstable. instead of enlisting to the military or the police, these broken people could be cured.
Plusy if it's the case of an actual mental illness then it might be ok... otherwise it's just like I said... if we "delete" our mistakes we are doomed to repeat them...
This also goes under the mental illness category, but I think that drug may also help former vets that suffer post traumatic stress disorder after war. :)
I would take a pill that would erase my memory of all my embarrasing memories. They are very embarassing,like for one example I bottle flipped 3 in a row on the cap in class and ended up going out in the hallways and yelling with my friends.
@@evil_zebra4275 She stuffed tissue up her bra to make it look big, and as she’s playing badminton with our Seniors , it fell off. This circulated to our form teacher and the teacher warned the whole class not to make fun of her if not there’ll be consequences . She started crying uncontrollably and got sent back home or got into counseling in the end.
@@hex720d7 sorry but I don't think that you should speak about someone like this... She is clearly embarrassed and not comfortable about this situation, you should respect that and learn when you are supposed to speak and when you are not
I want to forget my bad memories, I never want to remember all of those things that has scarred both my heart and brain. But each of those bad experiences are like cuts, they taught me things I needed in order to grow. Those memories are now scars, acting as reminders. I am conflicted whether I want to forget them or not.
Kirrim Kerman As horrible as those things are, they should not be forgotten. Forgetting it doesn't erase the fact that it happened. I was thinking about physical abuse I went through in the past (including sexual) and whether or not I wanna forget going through that, and I ultimately say, no. I think it's important to move past trauma and be a strong person, but don't forget your struggles, suffering and hardships. It's a part that shapes who you are, no matter how ugly. That's why I don't think blacks in America should forget that slavery happened, or that Jews should forget the Holocaust. No one should forget those things, neither whites, blacks, Jews or Germans. A Holocaust survivor should not forget what they went through.
Scott Dudok Nope. Still going to disagree. It's the wrong way to deal with such a thing. But that's my opinion. If someone does their own cost benefit analysis and decides that's what they want, then okay. But I'm saying, that before considering anything like that, to really look into it because a lot of things seem appealing or like a good idea on the surface. Also, I think the memory that you erase might even have the ability of returning somehow, and if it does, it's gonna be even worse because then the person will feel like they remember something they aren't sure that actually happened.
Even though I wish I could forget my past quite a lot.. I honestly wouldn't want to go through with it. I'm the person I am today, because of the memories and experiences I've dealt with. It'd be scary to completely forget it.
Exactly. We were built to have these memories. And just erasing it out of nowhere??? But it really depends if you hae had a really terrible life or a happy one. (I'd rather choose not to take the pill)
Don't forget those bad memories you have they help you to grow stronger. I was attacked by a bunch of dogs I had to go through Surgery and take 7 injections but i surely don't want to forget what happened to me during the attack because that attack made me stronger, strong enough to face my problems. whenever something comes up to my life I just think that nothing can be worse than that moment when i felt so much pain. Btw if you read all I've written then Thanks for reading, i hope this helps at least a single person
This video is cool and all, but all Science aside, am I the only one who felt bad when they said they used Lap rats who got purposely shocked hundreds of times to teach us about a memory issue? Poor rats, animal testing= animal abuse.
Yes but the wattage of the shock wouldn't have been very high. Also, would you prefer they did it to humans? Coz that would have caused A LOT more outrage. Sometimes just to do it to animals is the best way to go to make sure it is completely safe for humans. Don't get me wrong, I am fully against animal abuse but sometimes it's for the best, you know?
Animal testing is an unforunate and necessary evil. A day may come when it's no longer needed, but I fear it won't be within our lifetimes, and I doubt it will ever come when dealing with neuroscience and psychology. The problem is living systems are just too complex for us to accurately model and/or predict the outcomes of procedures. If you want to stop animal abuse, go raise hell at the cosmetics industry, they are the ones who are truly being evil.
I wish we would go back to testing on humans. Much better and faster results. Animals help but process is much slower. If you don't think we should test on either animals or humans you're a fucking idiot.
Carson Hunt the problem with testing on humans is unforeseen side effects or possible effects it could have on people who have kids causing birth defects, thats the reason testing animals is preferred so we dont have to worry about causing these kind of effects
I would not take the forgetting pill because every memory I have has taught me a lesson or brought me joy, even my worst memories have taught me something and are a part of me 😊
Chicken Permission That's because you're a chicken, your memory span is only like 15 seconds anyway so after a quarter of a minute you'll be back to your natural state again.
I hate when good memories turn into bad memories,,, I’m going through a breakup right now and I regret so much and remembering things from the past just make me wanna die inside..
sounds very risky but i can totally understand why some people would want to use such a drug. Some memories don't build character or infer wisdom, they just hurt, and in the worst cases a person's past can even destroy their future.
youre very true, in my case my long past childhool trauma is not healing. i get anxiety and fear when i visit a crowd(since it happened in a crowded place) so i think that trauma is holding me back so much, if i could erase that trauma, id probably be so much happier and achieve more in life
@@ivvany if only it was as easily done as it's said. in truth, that kind of hurt probably never fully heals but there is a path to a life where it doesn't hurt all the time. Hey, i'm still here 7 years later (and what a wild 7 years it has been), but my past hasn't ended me yet and im proud of that. i hope one day you can feel the same.
@@thra-x1855 thank you for the words! i rlly hope so, sometimes i do get better, but everytime a trigger occurs it came back. and today i think i just experience the worst feeling from a trigger to the trauma, to the point i start shaking cant breath and it even wont let me sleep. thats why i really just wanna get rid of the bad memory. but ure right! thankyou
@@thra-x1855 ure such an angel, i did need someone to talk too a couple hours ago, but thankfully i was able to reach out to a friend. so i feel better now, thank you.
Dosluke idk If it causes from PTSD, it might stop that person from having the reason to suicide. It's a huge incentive to make that person suicide or not.
Dosluke idk I have PTSD and ADD. I know where my PTSD start and from time to time, I went onto rage mode and talk to myself when I'm not around. Then get depressed and want to suicide. But I"m too scared of death and dying that's why I can't. When I study, I have voices of the child bully I had to go through with inside my head nagging me how do I know stuff from reading textbook. When you want to study and then there is someone nagging you "How do you know it's true? How do you know it's true?" every second yeah. If I could get rid of that memory, that will be a blessing.
Or it can be better, people who have anger issues and abuse their wife and kids because of how they were treated growing up would no longer hold that anger because there would be no bad memories to anger them. That would allow them a fresh start and to make new, better and happier memories and live a happier life. The whole point of this video is to erase the bad memories, not the good ones, so you would always remember the happy times
***** People aren't born with personalities, it depends on how people were raised, and the people they were raised around. So if they had no memories and started over, they would be a completely different person.
Yes, I would take a pill that took away memories of particularly embarrassing or traumatic events. There is no usefulness or value to reliving events that don’t help you in day to day life. Remembering that moment you tripped in the hallway at school, forgot how to spell that word when you were called in the classroom, etc. these memories don’t help you in any way and just force you to relive the trauma over and over. Also, we know that positive reinforcement is much more valuable in learning than negative reinforcement, so removing painful memories would likely not change you in any way. You would likely still have table manners, and still retain everything you learned through life. Just remove those painful memories. They don’t do you any good.
Agreed. People argue that without bad memories how do we know our good ones are *good* ones? because humans are wired to know? honestly if negative things were erased earth would be X1,000 better and that arguement is dumb because humans are made to know what those emotions are
Go home Google You're drunk Shes a fat ugly woman, so no I didn't... I was forced. Because my mum was a moron who didn't consider the consequences at the time. I was young, but the memory burnt into my brain and I want it out!!!
I literally do nothing and my brain decides to being up the worst times of my life in a whole showreel for the next hour and i cant even do anything about it except cringe and go “yup that happened...”
+Benny Altair maybe next time, you can take the place of the mouse being abused. but don't worry, it's for the sake of helping other people, so it's okay that you'll be tortured 😊
I would 200% take the forgetting pill. a mistake I made in the past has led to a chain of crap that has happened to me causing me to go into severe depression. if I could forget I ever did that mistake, I would be so happy. I've felt so bad that I've even searched up silly stuff like how to get dementia
I have some pretty bad memories, but I feel like taking them away could alter who I am. And knowing my brain- it would cause me to only remember good memories while the drug was administered(self sabotage). I would use it to forget tv shows, comedians and movies I would like to see again as I did the first time.
How is remembering the trauma going to heal you though? I have had severe PTSD since childhood and I really think I've tried almost everything, except drugs my mom wouldn't let me, to make it better.
I'm very sorry to hear about your situation. You will need to deal with the anger and emotions or lack thereof, which was caused by the trauma, and also you need to deal with the people who were responsible for that trauma. I'm a big fan of talk therapy if you can find a good therapist. Gaining self-knowledge is the best way to overcome trauma, but it does take years of hardwork. I've done it on my own and I am amazed by the results. Even if it was possible to forget an event in the past, that's not going to fix all the problems which was caused by that trauma. If you need to talk more feel free to send me a PM. Thanks!
SPL Its easy to tell someone to deal with a problem you don't have or understand. Some people, like yourself, thinks therapy helps when it doesn't always. I doubt this person has PTSD, tried almost everything, but haven't tried therapy.
SPL Funny cause that's what my mom made me do my whole childhood when in reality I was young enough I would have forgotten on my own. It's the fault of all the therapy and talking about (that and my mom was a bitch and constantly made me feel bad about it like it was my fault) that makes the memories hurt so much. I couldn't actually take the pill now if even though I want to because I will still have the painful memories of my mother and bad therapists spread throughout my life, I would need like a systematic wiping of all the memories of my family(I would do that too actually). But for people with new trauma this pill will save so much time and hurt. Therapy and talking is not for everyone, especially a little kid who just wants to be normal. Trust me
***** Sorry, but I never meant to downplay people's problems. Of course it's easy to say deal with it when it takes years of hard work to over come these things, but somebody has to do the hardwork and that's the person who wishes to improve their life and well being. I've gone through a pretty rough childhood myself in a messed up country which was in the middle of THE worst war since WW2, so I guess I know a thing or two about trauma.
I just heard something really horrifying that I won't share with you so you won't get paranoid, so I'd take it. I really want to get this out of my head.
Ok wait so if someone took a pill to forget that their friend or family member died, would they just forget that person all together? Or just think that they're still alive?
According to the video, it deletes what you're thinking about when the pill takes action, so i guess if you're not 100% focusing on the fact that they died you would forget other memories of them too.
I think the way it goes is that I give you the drug and then tell you to think back to your friend's death. My words trigger your memory of, let's say, being told of your friend's death, much in the same way that the sound reminds the mice of the memory of pain. After telling you, though, your brain tries to use the proteins to recreate the memory so that you know what I'm talking about, but it can't, so the memory is gone. However, if given enough time for the drug's effects to go away, you should be able to remember everything else about the friend, so you would probably just logically conclude that the person is still alive - or at least, you don't know where he/she is or how he/she is doing. Obviously this is just a guess but that's what I'm assuming, based on the video.
From what I've found in other sources, the drug propranolol seems to target emotional memories. In other words, you don't forget the events that happened nor do you forget how it once made you feel. Your brain just forgets how to summon those emotions after treatment.
“Pill” is literally a trigger of the bad memory. I will continue to hear this word forever. And I will remember. I won’t take the pill after what happened to my brother.
Ronnie Valkema As to the science behind it it is actually fairly easy to explain, the neurons that control memories are not fully developed until around age four. A child will learn and remember small words and other things they will use more often as part of their normal development, but long term memories from before that point usually get over written.
I have a bad memory, it's not horribly traumatic or anything, but it has affected my life 'till today. Sometimes I would like to take that memory away but at the same time, that memory has helped me to protect myself from some people. I supposed I just wouldn't take and start going to a terapist or something x.x
Like the video shows, people have short memories.I doesn't matter if a memorie is too awful, you're gonna forget the feeling soon or late.Go to a terapist to waste your time is not a good choise, he/she is going to sell you a comfort zone that relly doesn't exist, you will be the way to get his/her money.
jazzblack666 that's can be true, but there are actually good terapist who help can people, not all of them are useless. But yeah, maybe it's not why I need... And memory can be such a complicated, subconcious thing. I didn't realize how it had affected me until this years and it has been almost 5 years since it happened, I just sat down to analize myself. And I have no comfort zones!! I hate them xD It took me 10 years to learn english? yeah, let's try to learn dutch in a semester! have social exiety? Let's just fucking move out alone to another country to live with other 16 people! Love me, I complicate my own life xD But thank you for the advice :)
Well, you can take that bad memories and put them in a "comfort zone", i mean convert them into good memories. Also my computer doesn't have his own voice, so don't know if in the last part was sarcatic or not. You Can go to see a shrink or not, but YOU gotta take your own decisions afeter the terapy, and if the terapist says "50 bucks is to low, next time pay $100 and bring me a six.pac and a donut" You can just leave or insulted him until even his ancestors got offended.Like i said , your call.
jazzblack666 No! I wasn't ebing sarcastic, I honestly thank the advice. And I think you're right about the last part, some doctors are like that, it's really shitty.
I watched a traumatising scene in a movie, it’s 2am and can’t stop thinking about it. Now I’m here. For those asking the movie was *Beast of No Nation*
I have OCD that fixates on certain events or things that people said that has driven me almost to suicide. The essential problem is the continuous looping of my brain, but the memories provide the fixation. I would certainly choose to erase certain memories if I could. For instance, even watching this video triggered anxiety about how reliable some old memories are. Ones that I like. I want to erase the former memory right now. Just an example. But the memories that drive me crazy are much worse.
***** They're translating all this learning into practical treatments, they just aren't quite there yet. At least we know they will be before too long, right now the options if you have OCD are very limited.
Yes, I agree it is the emotions triggerd by the memories that are the problem. For me, anxiety. One positive thing about this sort of research is they will probably figure out how to rewire that continuous looping and the emotional response eventually.
If someone died, and now you are upset about it, you forget they died with the pill, then you ask "Where'd they go?", and then you find out their dead, and you freak out again... Yeah... Not a good idea... Neither is if you forget someone died so you don't have experience with it anymore, then someone else dies, instead of feeling it for a second time, so you already know what's going to happen, you will feel the same the first time instead of knowing how to cope with the depression of someone going. This is just an example, a big example of what it could be like... Or at least that's what it seems like for me.
That's not how that works. By removing the memory, the lesson would never have been learned, so you'd lose that too. That's the problem with removing bad memories. They're still a part of who we are, no matter how much we dislike them.
What about victims of person crimes? What lesson did my family learn by my wife being raped? It was a year of hell trying to hold us together. We suffered immensely for the brutal act of another. The intrusive thoughts and memories that haunt you, nightmares, crippling depression. I would pay anything to erase this from my life, like it never happened.
I wouldn't take it, having bad memories is better then having no memories at all, memories make us who we are, without them we are just a blank slate to make new ones
Not always. As someone with a particular disorder, I can confirm that some memories are incredibly harrowing and you'd want to be rid of them. I agree with you that bad experiences are very important, but when a memory becomes something that you obsess over and it brings you great anxiety and depression, I'd argue that you're better off without it.
Wonderful, here, just take this pill, we promise to only erase the bad ones. Ah, you're awake? Do you remember the current party, and the best one that's ever existed for all of time? No? Well, silly, it's Ingsoc! We've invented loads of things, the train, the plane, everything imaginable! food supplies are at their greatest! We've always been at war. Have a lovely day citizen!
How sad that they experiment with the rats with shocks when they could have done literally anything else. Give them a piece of food in a specific spot every time the sound is played and see if the rat runs to that spot; have it indicate that a door will open far away that'll let them into another area in the cage, and see if they head in that direction; etc etc etc. You don't have to hurt something to get a reaction from it. Sometimes I feel like scientists just choose to do stuff like this because they're lonely sociopathic animal abusers who get their jollies doing experiments that hurt things and call it "science".
I have to point out that these "sociopathic animal abusers" tried to test the drug on bad memories which includes fear, anger, sadness, etc. I don't think that getting food would make for a memory that was required for that test.
FinnDuDe95 It didn't seem that they were trying to test specifically *bad* memories though; just memories that inflect emotion. Excitement is an emotion too. All they were looking for is if the rats tensed up when they heard the chime, preparing themselves to be shocked. Having a dog hear a bell and seeing if he drooled is pretty much the same thing, but not as cruel. Rats can be trained just as easily so they didn't need to resort to inflicting pain on them. There was a test where they experimented on various of rats with a bright light that shone straight down into their cage. Many were fearful of the light and would poop or run away. Some would freeze for a moment, then calm down. They bred the fearful rats and found that their children were just as, if not more, fearful than their parents. They tested drugs on the fearful rats to see if it would dull their instinct to flee despite their genetics. It worked. Why not do a test similar to that? Instead of shocking the rats, why not play a chime then turn the bright startling on for a few seconds. The trauma of being startled with the light would bring upon the same emotional trauma, but wouldn't physically harm them. Well, aside from the heart attacks and anxiety, I suppose...
It's sad that cosmetics companies test their products on animals. It's sad that newfound drugs are tested on animals. It's sad that animals are killed for the sake of wearing their fur or skin. It's sad that animals are slaughtered and allowed to painfully bleed to death for the sake of some beef or pork. Unfortunately, it's just the way it is.
***** Guess what? You aint gonna change shit about that, even if you preach on TH-cam. So, do us all a favor and come over to our nice little "I dont give a shit" lobby.
there are many things i want to forget, & i’m sure that would make my life so much better. but reflecting back on those memories helps me be a better person. i’m trying to forgive myself more & more with each passing day. i wonder how many more stupid things i would do if i didn’t keep those bad memories. forgive yourself & others, but never forget.
Animals run the risk of being killed when entering other animals territory. Keeping rats locked up and exploiting them for research is pretty messed up. It's not something I complain against, but it does kind of make us arseholes.
They tortured and traumatized rats for this information. This is equivalent to torturing a down syndrome person. Rats are very sensitive and smart animals, they are just like dogs.
These rats will go on to save millions of lives. If a rat was capable of knowing the good they were doing and they knew they were contributing emencly to our world, they would be happy.
So would you be ok to be locked up in individual boxes with all of your other family members for many generations, with nothing but water and lab cutlets, and have painful experiments inflicted on you and your future offspring, if it meant us discovering why we forget where we put our keys?
No, but I would feel just as terrible if a family member or myself died from a mental illness that could have been treated- If animal testing was approved. Don't get me wrong, the topic is a double edged sword, but we are the only animals that think critcally before we kill another animal for our personal gains. Sometimes it's best to neglect our higher power of thinking and do this morbid acts to assure our dominance as a species.
I wouldn't take the pill. Because I think that we learn more from negative experiences and forgetting about them will have a bad side effect on our character, it would make us stumble twice on the same mistake, sort of thing. SO, as painful as it might be to remember, it's better that way IMO.
I completely agree. I would want to take the pill, but I feel like it wouldn't be right. We learn from negative and positive experiences and so I would want to live even with the most haunting memories. I think philosophically it is something that can be used to help define who we are.
Yeah i would do the same and would never take the pill because if we don't learn from our mistakes we might make the same mistake in future as well. Also it doesnt seem an ethical way.
I'd take it and think of all my awkward memories then watch loads of my favorite funniest shows and then I can go into the whole series again with the same funny
All I want to forget is......the undertale fandom...sry why do people are ruining the nice game with something really embarrassing and something that the little kids don't wanna see
that's actually half the reason. The other half is the receptors are getting old and are not getting replaced ( alzheimer ) The issue is when we get older your body becomes slower at replacing cells and soon it will stop. Some actually do well and try their best, but at around age 80 its a issue that's unstoppable. This is my one worry about this drug that it could make this happen sooner rather than later if exposed too many times.
IloveJell0w Alzheimer is not a universal thing that is going to happen to everyone. When we become older we do lose some neurons but the ones that remain are much stronger. Also through repetition (firing of the same/similar neurons) you can prevent yourself from forgetting. You only have one worry about the drug? Not the countless illegal uses it could have?.---.
monkgot45 There are already short term memory drugs in cycle and those can even cause long term memory loss how is this one going to be any different ? Oh because its medical prescribed well that changes everything. Also Alzheimer is more universal than you think however if you keep your brain fit you can fight it off till you hit the grave. .
IloveJell0w Because it's prescribed is exactly the reason why xD. There may be drugs which already do what is mentioned but they're less available and probably not as effective (such as ether was when it was given to patients). Marijuana and Ritalin (and Ritalin drugs) are damn good examples of this. Alzheimer is prominent in AROUND 80 +-10 percent of seniors so it is prominent. BUT it is NOT the reason we forget memories at a young age. That is due to a lack of potential of the neuron firing (which can have the potential of being recalled through firing of connected neurons). Also a Popscience channel doing a video on such this subject shows that it is more public (more available) friendly than just for a scientific journal (which is typically not perfected and harder to find)
When i was 5 years old my father took me from my mother with her conscent, to live with him and his new wife. It quickly bacame apparent to me that she took an instant dislike to me, more like hatered. She had four children of her own. Anyway the abuse started off almost immediately making me stand in the corner of the room facing the wall for absolutely no reason that a five year old child would understand anyway. The days went on with low level mental abuse, well to a five year old boy it was devastating. My father was a long distant driver so all this abuse took place when he was out, but he could see that I was unhappy there. So her four children started to bully me and attacked me in the house. They had a dog that use to nip me, and they would all just laugh. I started to hear her mother say to her, "Why don't you just dump him somewhere." So after a year of mental tourment at the hands of everyone in that house, she finally decided to take her mothers advice and dump me on the street I was only 6 years. So Social services placed me with a foster family but after a year the moved me to a children's home. That was a blow to me because I became part of a loving family. When I was 8 years old they moved me to another children's gome where I stayed for 8 years. I left the children's home when I was 16, then they moved me to another children's home for a year, then when I was 17 they moved me to an half way house to get me use to an independant life. I left the care system as I went in feeling alone, worried, & affraid. Of course i have not put every awful experience in this post. Thank You.
+A Freaking Wizard Holy shit, I've finnaly found someone who agrees that emojis are stupid and pointless. Thanks for having some actual sense, you've earned a sub
No, I don't believe any memory should be taken away, no matter how terrifying, sad, or scared. One memory can change a person. Haha, I learned this lesson from Fruits Basket, if anyone has watched it
I was automatically reminded of Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. Even though it'd be cool to erase my bad memories, my bad experiences have helped me a ton with relationships, work, personal growth, etc.
Am I the only one who remembers bad memories better than happy ones?
Katie Redhead I don't have any happy moments of my life they are all bad to me
Oak Heart literally my life
Katie Redhead me lol
Katie Redhead That's natural.
Katie Redhead no
If I could erase bad memories, I would be so much happier.
Yeah, i wish i never saw that r34 pic
Same here dude.
same
Same here lol
Yea true
This would be great for people with anxiety and depression who ruminate on bad memories. And imagine how it would help PTSD too.
Yes
I don't cry when: I get hurt really bad, emotial videos, ect.
I cry when: Some tiny wrong thing happens in my video game.
I think I was given a pill to forget, but I can't remember.
lmao
That sucks, man.
Hmmm
Roofie circle
But how you remembered that you was given pills to forget your memories? 🤔
I wanna forget all my favorite movies so I can see them again for the first time.
+Wilmer ikr
I thought by not thinking about my favourite films that I'd forget them more... But this video seems to state that the more we think about the more we'll forget... So, I guess I need to start thinking about them more!! 😂
lol ikr
I wanna rewatch Avatar The Last Airbender and Legend of korra
EXACTLY
Can science please erase my bad memories. Every time I remember them I fall into deep depression and I can’t control it, I have mental breakdowns and really bad trust issues triggered by these memories. Sometimes I am able to forget about them and live normally for a short while, but then they start again. I am at a loss of what to do. Please. I need help.
U.K. Bobby you need stuff for depression, not memories
Good and bad memories are a gift which are necessary in everyday life.
Here's a question:
Do you learn any bad memories from the past?
You need therapy
read quran and tell me how you feel after,
U.K. Bobby same :(
I wanna forget my whole existence because it's just one big depressing fail
It is with THAT attitude! (no but seriously you should try to stay positive ~hugs~)
Oka -chan why do you say that what is your point.....
you got company (y)
Skitty the Dictator Still persons who are crying on the internet because their life is sooo horrible and they are sooo depressed and want to kill themselves.
Nerd_of_Worlds don't worry your not alone, I want the same thing
I really wish I could erase all of the bad memories and keep the good ones. My life would be so much happier.
Same, we're all going to be ok though ❤️
No It would not, the presence of bad memories makes the good memories good, its all relative
i know right i think about my embarrassing moments every day and i just cant forget it
Same❤️
@@pouyan_m that actually isnt true, but its too complicated for me to explain in laymans terms. rest assured, im right
soooo dory was on drugs?
😂😂😂
Just keep swimming
Haha xd
I can remember bad memories from years ago but not science facts for my test the next morning.. Thanks brain.
Lol me too XD
ohh.. same
I feel that the human brain holds on to traumatic past memories better than anything else.
Same.... 😓
Bad memories have one good thing:
You will remember not to make the same mistake twice.
Matcho urraimatcho fuuraimatcho
IK this song too
no men i kept doing it!!!!!
Thanks bro, next time I'll make sure my grandpa doesn't get kidney failure and eventually die in his sleep
I’m such a retard I kept doing it
I’m required to have school, so...
edited because it was cringe
also would take it to forget spoilers
Hi I got trauma today for searching something on tiktok I'm really scared right now I wish that never happened
I almost made a kid blind...I'm so guilty and it was my accident....I wanna erase it so bad...
I don’t have trauma but I would forget spoilers.
There is a link in the description called "THE FORGETTING PILL"
A drug can change the way a stress or fear memory feels, but this can also be achieved through any technique that utilizes memory reconsolidation. Two therapies in particular, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), initiate memory reconsolidation with eye movements and imagery recall. EMDR and ART both activate reconsolidation by having you use imagery to recall the stress or fear event. The recall of this stressful event activates a physical response you can feel in your body. The fear imagery is reviewed while your body’s physical responses is regulated with eye movements, tapping or even coaching with guided imagery.
By repeatedly reviewing the fear imagery over the course of about 10 minutes the physical response is diminished and the fear is desensitized. At this point a new and desired response to that fear memory is elicited. You can imagine how you’d like your future self to feel about this memory, or imagine that you tell yourself something different about that experience
This is called voluntary image replacement and it is used to elicit the new and desired emotion to replace the fear response. Positive imagery is used to rehearse the future desired response when the targeted stress cue is again encountered. The result is very similar to erasure, the fear memory is removed, leaving only the new, positive association.
The semantic network model also explains how memories cues can trigger one memory activating associated memories. Hence, the more we can relate things together the more they're likely to be remembered. This also means that memories that have little amount of association to other memories are also more likely to be deleted or forgotten.
THIS IS PSYCH2GO HOW DOES THIS HAVE SUCH LOW LIKES also i like your videos they're interesting
@@BarbodTheSlayer 7 yrs ago, psych 2go wasn't popular and nobody noticed the comment
That's why he easily forgets me, bc I've never been to his place, and he was always here in my place. Sucks
Hiii! I’m a huge fan :D
If a drug like that would reach the market it would be used by criminals to make victims forget what has been done to them most likely. o.o
That's true, I never realized that!
Well, technically criminals don't need to wait until after everything is done... A lot of criminals give their victims "roofies" or Rohypnol so that it's hard for them to create the memories in the first place.
But it is much easier to legally buy a drug that the government allows, then go to some dealer and get illegal drugs
Anish Mahto Rohypnol is a drug that is prescribed to you because it's a benzodiazepine. It would only be illegal if it weren't prescribed to you.
Oh nvm then
I want to forget something very very trumatising
Same
Same
Same
7 words.
4 girls finger paint and lemon party.
Joesph Joestar me too.... :(
Please erase my memories ;- ;
Even if I am forever changed... I'd rather forget...
Every bad memory makes you stronger, don't erase them! If we forgot every time we fell, we would never learn how to walk
@@ceseba9938 im pretty sure every one learns from their mistake so it would probably best if they forget how they grow cuz sometime it also brings them down just saying
@@miko5742 i will give an example, let's say i am baking a cake and i overmixed the batter and the cake was chewier. Next time i will mix it less so it won't be that chewy and this is how i will memorize the recipe, with the mistakes i did. But if i suddenly say "ugh i was so stupid to overmix that batter" and i erase the memories of me overmixing then i will forget that i shouldn't overmix the batter which will then cause me to not be able to do remember the recipe correctly
Ik this was a very long of an example but overall this is what i mean, people learn from their mistakes. Think for yourself you will remember the stupid sh*t you did in class better than the bravos you got
@@ceseba9938 you clearly didnt read my comment right
@@miko5742 i read ur comment and i replied to it by saying if you forget how you grew and if you forget your mistakes then you will do it again
"Hey let's go and visit mom"
"What do you mean with she died months ago!?"
Your name is so long the check mark is smaller
but my fish died.
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Sorry bud, you're not getting pity from me
@@eggshell671 okay??
While it might be interesting to delete certain memories so we don't have to remember trauma, or to have the possibility of reliving an amazing feeling, I don't think I would use it...
Life is for experiencing, and memories make up who you are. We learn from memories and without them we would just end up in an infinite loop. So I'll keep them... both good ones and bad ones alike...
I completely agree with you! Though they might help in certain cases but our experiences and memories, in the end make us who we are.
what if you can cure a mentally ill person if you delete the traumatic experience that caused them to be mentally unstable. instead of enlisting to the military or the police, these broken people could be cured.
Plusy Yes! I do agree with that, and that is the reason I said that they might help in certain cases. :)
Plusy if it's the case of an actual mental illness then it might be ok... otherwise it's just like I said... if we "delete" our mistakes we are doomed to repeat them...
This also goes under the mental illness category, but I think that drug may also help former vets that suffer post traumatic stress disorder after war. :)
I want to forget dirty stuff that my friend showed me
I saw um you know what and it’s disgusting I just wanna forget it all
Literally tho I want my innocence back so bad
maia jadenjesy same it was yesterday this happened to me, i couldn’t sleep because my mind was full of it. the “friend” isn’t my friend anymore
Same tbh
I just want to forget my embarrassing moments😖
I really wish there will be such technology that can erase bad memories available someday in the future.
ECT.
Ikr.
Same frnd sometimes the most favourite things are being the worst memories.and we cant remove it
@@souviksantra7084BUT I WANT TO FORGET MINE!!!!
what if you forgot about taking the pill and took another on?
GET LOGIC'D
but what if you remember that your docter prescribed it to you
okay
I would take a pill that would erase my memory of all my embarrasing memories. They are very embarassing,like for one example I bottle flipped 3 in a row on the cap in class and ended up going out in the hallways and yelling with my friends.
That's actually a running joke in the fourth season of Arrested Development
Like the memory gun in Gravity Falls?
yaaaas
YASSSS!
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THAT😱😱😱😱
When the government uses this technology you will not.
Huy Trần oh my gosh yea
I’ve been super stressed because of something one of my teachers did and I started crying during class and I wish I could just forget it
I know this is none of my business and you really don’t have to answer but what happened?
Hi Jessica, I’n your classmate Addison! What a coincidence. 😆
@@evil_zebra4275
She stuffed tissue up her bra to make it look big, and as she’s playing badminton with our Seniors , it fell off. This circulated to our form teacher and the teacher warned the whole class not to make fun of her if not there’ll be consequences . She started crying uncontrollably and got sent back home or got into counseling in the end.
@@hex720d7 omg
@@hex720d7 sorry but I don't think that you should speak about someone like this... She is clearly embarrassed and not comfortable about this situation, you should respect that and learn when you are supposed to speak and when you are not
I want to forget my bad memories, I never want to remember all of those things that has scarred both my heart and brain. But each of those bad experiences are like cuts, they taught me things I needed in order to grow. Those memories are now scars, acting as reminders. I am conflicted whether I want to forget them or not.
Trying to forget an endgame spoiler.
Original comment right here. Nice one man
Me to Rowley, me to
😂
Are you still friends wιт Greg?
Ayyyyy Greg's best friend...
Let's take drugs to forget our bad childhood, YAY!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Let's go turn into fishes cause we can with the power OF DRUGS
TheNarrator YAAAAAAAAY
Captain Rad IM ALL IN
No, without the pain of the past, I wouldn't be truly appreciative of the pleasure today.
I'd take the forget drug. How do I sign up to be a test subject for it?
MrWhitman Xanax
Childhood trauma has destroyed me. I wish I could forget it all.
Yes I would I want to forget the cringy presentation I've made 3 years ago!
Me too,a school one,went horrible.
I think your the only person who remembers it so are you embarrassed
@@ssssSTopmotion that's the point, it haunts so badly.
I want to forget the cringy excuse I made for my late assignment to my teacher in college 😖😖😖
As tempting as it is, I wouldn't take such a pill. Even bad memories can have good outcomes if we learn from them and apply as positive as we can.
preach
What if you where raped? or if you where a solider they experienced your friend die a gruesome death? Some things, you want to forget.
Kirrim Kerman
As horrible as those things are, they should not be forgotten. Forgetting it doesn't erase the fact that it happened. I was thinking about physical abuse I went through in the past (including sexual) and whether or not I wanna forget going through that, and I ultimately say, no. I think it's important to move past trauma and be a strong person, but don't forget your struggles, suffering and hardships. It's a part that shapes who you are, no matter how ugly.
That's why I don't think blacks in America should forget that slavery happened, or that Jews should forget the Holocaust. No one should forget those things, neither whites, blacks, Jews or Germans. A Holocaust survivor should not forget what they went through.
Could be potentially life-saving for people with depression resulting from terrible memories, wouldn't you agree?
Scott Dudok
Nope. Still going to disagree. It's the wrong way to deal with such a thing. But that's my opinion. If someone does their own cost benefit analysis and decides that's what they want, then okay. But I'm saying, that before considering anything like that, to really look into it because a lot of things seem appealing or like a good idea on the surface.
Also, I think the memory that you erase might even have the ability of returning somehow, and if it does, it's gonna be even worse because then the person will feel like they remember something they aren't sure that actually happened.
Even though I wish I could forget my past quite a lot.. I honestly wouldn't want to go through with it. I'm the person I am today, because of the memories and experiences I've dealt with. It'd be scary to completely forget it.
Exactly. We were built to have these memories. And just erasing it out of nowhere??? But it really depends if you hae had a really terrible life or a happy one.
(I'd rather choose not to take the pill)
I'd take the pill.
Yeah. Thanks to my bad memory, I know what not to do in a relationship.
And who are you?
Who are you? You commented on my post. 😆
Don't forget those bad memories you have they help you to grow stronger.
I was attacked by a bunch of dogs
I had to go through Surgery and take 7 injections but i surely don't want to forget what happened to me during the attack because that attack made me stronger, strong enough to face my problems. whenever something comes up to my life I just think that nothing can be worse than that moment when i felt so much pain.
Btw if you read all I've written then Thanks for reading, i hope this helps at least a single person
Dude r u fcking kidding me? Not all people's worst nightmare is to be bitten by dogs, they have survived wars and shit.
@@vizzyb8400 True
This video is cool and all, but all Science aside, am I the only one who felt bad when they said they used Lap rats who got purposely shocked hundreds of times to teach us about a memory issue? Poor rats,
animal testing= animal abuse.
Yes but the wattage of the shock wouldn't have been very high. Also, would you prefer they did it to humans? Coz that would have caused A LOT more outrage. Sometimes just to do it to animals is the best way to go to make sure it is completely safe for humans. Don't get me wrong, I am fully against animal abuse but sometimes it's for the best, you know?
Animal testing is an unforunate and necessary evil. A day may come when it's no longer needed, but I fear it won't be within our lifetimes, and I doubt it will ever come when dealing with neuroscience and psychology. The problem is living systems are just too complex for us to accurately model and/or predict the outcomes of procedures.
If you want to stop animal abuse, go raise hell at the cosmetics industry, they are the ones who are truly being evil.
I wish we would go back to testing on humans. Much better and faster results. Animals help but process is much slower. If you don't think we should test on either animals or humans you're a fucking idiot.
Carson Hunt Please! Be my guest. Volunteer.
Carson Hunt
the problem with testing on humans is unforeseen side effects or possible effects it could have on people who have kids causing birth defects, thats the reason testing animals is preferred so we dont have to worry about causing these kind of effects
what is the name of the drug????!!!! I am willing to pay everything to loose a memory !!!
kawaiisrs07 i just wanted to say ur so pretty wow
kawaiisrs07 and i hope youre doing ok, i would do anything to forget a memory too
Ethyl. Great stuff
Its propranolol
@@ckarndusunme4394 that's kinda creepy
I would not take the forgetting pill because every memory I have has taught me a lesson or brought me joy, even my worst memories have taught me something and are a part of me 😊
Good idea. Don't intervene in things you could regret.
+Ezy Teri reddy True 🙂
I'd take it.
Chicken Permission That's because you're a chicken, your memory span is only like 15 seconds anyway so after a quarter of a minute you'll be back to your natural state again.
Ezy Teri Reddy WHO ARE YOU TO CALL ME A CHICKEN?! I MIGHT BE A DUCK!
#racismmuststop
I hate when good memories turn into bad memories,,, I’m going through a breakup right now and I regret so much and remembering things from the past just make me wanna die inside..
sounds very risky but i can totally understand why some people would want to use such a drug. Some memories don't build character or infer wisdom, they just hurt, and in the worst cases a person's past can even destroy their future.
youre very true, in my case my long past childhool trauma is not healing. i get anxiety and fear when i visit a crowd(since it happened in a crowded place) so i think that trauma is holding me back so much, if i could erase that trauma, id probably be so much happier and achieve more in life
@@ivvany if only it was as easily done as it's said. in truth, that kind of hurt probably never fully heals but there is a path to a life where it doesn't hurt all the time. Hey, i'm still here 7 years later (and what a wild 7 years it has been), but my past hasn't ended me yet and im proud of that. i hope one day you can feel the same.
@@thra-x1855 thank you for the words! i rlly hope so, sometimes i do get better, but everytime a trigger occurs it came back. and today i think i just experience the worst feeling from a trigger to the trauma, to the point i start shaking cant breath and it even wont let me sleep. thats why i really just wanna get rid of the bad memory. but ure right! thankyou
@@ivvany any time. And I do mean that. When you have noone else to talk to, come talk to me.
@@thra-x1855 ure such an angel, i did need someone to talk too a couple hours ago, but thankfully i was able to reach out to a friend. so i feel better now, thank you.
what would happen if you were suicidal, so you erased the memories associated with it. would you still be suicidal, without knowing why?
Good question
Dosluke idk If it causes from PTSD, it might stop that person from having the reason to suicide.
It's a huge incentive to make that person suicide or not.
I can understand that. Do you speak from experience?
Dosluke idk
I have PTSD and ADD. I know where my PTSD start and from time to time, I went onto rage mode and talk to myself when I'm not around. Then get depressed and want to suicide. But I"m too scared of death and dying that's why I can't.
When I study, I have voices of the child bully I had to go through with inside my head nagging me how do I know stuff from reading textbook. When you want to study and then there is someone nagging you "How do you know it's true? How do you know it's true?" every second yeah.
If I could get rid of that memory, that will be a blessing.
jesus im sorry man... i was bullied a lot, but not like that.
Doesn't memories affect how you live your life? Isn't it dangerous to "delete" some memories that has made you who you are?
Yea, I was thinking the same thing!
Well, technically, f you're a computer or a robot then it wont change your life since you're just a mechanical piece of
such convenience for humans
Or it can be better, people who have anger issues and abuse their wife and kids because of how they were treated growing up would no longer hold that anger because there would be no bad memories to anger them. That would allow them a fresh start and to make new, better and happier memories and live a happier life. The whole point of this video is to erase the bad memories, not the good ones, so you would always remember the happy times
JD S I don't think that will work because the personality is not driven only by memories, it's something more deep, like it has genetics implicance
***** People aren't born with personalities, it depends on how people were raised, and the people they were raised around. So if they had no memories and started over, they would be a completely different person.
Yes, I would take a pill that took away memories of particularly embarrassing or traumatic events. There is no usefulness or value to reliving events that don’t help you in day to day life. Remembering that moment you tripped in the hallway at school, forgot how to spell that word when you were called in the classroom, etc. these memories don’t help you in any way and just force you to relive the trauma over and over. Also, we know that positive reinforcement is much more valuable in learning than negative reinforcement, so removing painful memories would likely not change you in any way. You would likely still have table manners, and still retain everything you learned through life. Just remove those painful memories. They don’t do you any good.
Agreed. People argue that without bad memories how do we know our good ones are *good* ones? because humans are wired to know? honestly if negative things were erased earth would be X1,000 better and that arguement is dumb because humans are made to know what those emotions are
Memories are what make us ourselves, even if they are embarrassing or painful we should remember and learn from them.
I just want to forget hearing my parents having intercourse.
+Alessandra Abris-Rodriguez How old are you?
+Alessandra Abris-Rodriguez relateable
Again, how old are you?
ikr
I want to forget finding my dads condoms.
I want to forget alot, pretty sure Im not the only one out there with them wishes huh
Nefelibata yea
If I lived without bad memories I would’ve been so much more refreshed and happier
I wouldn't take it, what happened in my past makes me who I am today.
So yeah
Tell it like it is brah...i mean girl lol
I wanna forget the time I saw my auntie naked please! It did not build my character or "make me who I am" AT ALL! bleh
Bruh bruh its okay you don't have to hide it we know you enjoyed it.
Go home Google You're drunk Shes a fat ugly woman, so no I didn't... I was forced. Because my mum was a moron who didn't consider the consequences at the time. I was young, but the memory burnt into my brain and I want it out!!!
***** just search up really ugly and fat naked women that should get that out for awhile
i want to forget something everyone thought I did that made them turn against me 😔
I see it has been 2 years since this comment, how are you now? Stay safe from corona ;)
Literally same. I'd finally moved on and was sent a text from someone from my past reminding me yesterday. It was awful
@@maiaaa6474 respond to them with this link th-cam.com/video/Uqn99JZA6hg/w-d-xo.html
Same
I want to forget all of my awkward moments...Which happens literally everyday.
I literally do nothing and my brain decides to being up the worst times of my life in a whole showreel for the next hour and i cant even do anything about it except cringe and go “yup that happened...”
all I want is to forget the spoilers to Star Wars 7
I know that feeling bro
+PurpleAnt Exactly
Hans solo died (~_~)
I'm pretty sure everyone has seen it by now...
+Rohin Shah not me
Made me really upset hearing that they do that to rats and mice etc :(
Why
+Megan Pasalic i think that's ok. cause scientist often use lab rats to test their drugs, m... maybe usually
The shock probably felt like a pinch
Yeah but it's for SCIENCE!!!
+Pretzel Stick True! Science is more important than one little mices pain measurement.
I would wanna forget all the 1D lyrics I know lmao waste of space
yzygang haha
LOL
Kendra Anderson Triggered
yzygang i imagined a grandma naked
Never a waste of space😂
Even if I try to move on, those bad memories are still inside my head.
Exactly, always there in the back of your mind, and they don't let you forget it be happy! They have to be cut out like a cancer so we can live!
I feel so sorry for those mice......
+TJ Diamond same here!
+TJ Diamond Oh please...at least it was done for science and the possibility of helping people.
+Benny Altair maybe next time, you can take the place of the mouse being abused. but don't worry, it's for the sake of helping other people, so it's okay that you'll be tortured 😊
+Plague Knight good pointt
+Plague Knight he's obviously an uneducated, heartless dumbass, and you're exactly right so don't listen to him😂
I would totally give that forgetting pill to my teacher
hell yeah
Me: OK, does it work?
Teacher: Who the heck are you?
No homework
Holy crap, poor rats!!!
Boojanator :3 seriously
ufolien Ikr
I would 200% take the forgetting pill. a mistake I made in the past has led to a chain of crap that has happened to me causing me to go into severe depression. if I could forget I ever did that mistake, I would be so happy. I've felt so bad that I've even searched up silly stuff like how to get dementia
"how to get dementia" ummm
Sams
@@joel00891 Same
Morty's Mind Blowers.
"What are you ganna do, kill me?"
"No, Im ganna kill myself"
Aw geez,rick
I call this one moon-spiracy
TheNerdEra Rick is Big Brother from 1984, he removes memories
I have some pretty bad memories, but I feel like taking them away could alter who I am. And knowing my brain- it would cause me to only remember good memories while the drug was administered(self sabotage).
I would use it to forget tv shows, comedians and movies I would like to see again as I did the first time.
I would take it, so i can see/read harry potter again!
jonas Yas
Even seeing them later in life could potentially alter who you are
Comedy Channel But, I like who I am- and what I know. Despite the issues I may have, I truly enjoy my brain. Don't want it changed- only improved.
Boo Radley i really wouldnt change anything, i mean, life goes so smoothly the way its going.
Deal with your history people, forgetting trauma isn't going to cure you.
How is remembering the trauma going to heal you though? I have had severe PTSD since childhood and I really think I've tried almost everything, except drugs my mom wouldn't let me, to make it better.
I'm very sorry to hear about your situation.
You will need to deal with the anger and emotions or lack thereof, which was caused by the trauma, and also you need to deal with the people who were responsible for that trauma. I'm a big fan of talk therapy if you can find a good therapist. Gaining self-knowledge is the best way to overcome trauma, but it does take years of hardwork. I've done it on my own and I am amazed by the results.
Even if it was possible to forget an event in the past, that's not going to fix all the problems which was caused by that trauma.
If you need to talk more feel free to send me a PM.
Thanks!
SPL
Its easy to tell someone to deal with a problem you don't have or understand. Some people, like yourself, thinks therapy helps when it doesn't always. I doubt this person has PTSD, tried almost everything, but haven't tried therapy.
SPL
Funny cause that's what my mom made me do my whole childhood when in reality I was young enough I would have forgotten on my own.
It's the fault of all the therapy and talking about (that and my mom was a bitch and constantly made me feel bad about it like it was my fault) that makes the memories hurt so much. I couldn't actually take the pill now if even though I want to because I will still have the painful memories of my mother and bad therapists spread throughout my life, I would need like a systematic wiping of all the memories of my family(I would do that too actually). But for people with new trauma this pill will save so much time and hurt. Therapy and talking is not for everyone, especially a little kid who just wants to be normal. Trust me
***** Sorry, but I never meant to downplay people's problems. Of course it's easy to say deal with it when it takes years of hard work to over come these things, but somebody has to do the hardwork and that's the person who wishes to improve their life and well being. I've gone through a pretty rough childhood myself in a messed up country which was in the middle of THE worst war since WW2, so I guess I know a thing or two about trauma.
Yes, definitely, I want to forget everything
Every bad memory makes you stronger, don't erase them! If we forgot every time we fell, we would never learn how to walk
@@ceseba9938 not always
I just heard something really horrifying that I won't share with you so you won't get paranoid, so I'd take it.
I really want to get this out of my head.
Hey, you made me curious dude😡😐
?
Resistant is just gonna make it worse,
I forgot my password and name
Lol
XD
and the sadness is you didnt tryed to Forget XD
:O DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!
OMG
Ok wait so if someone took a pill to forget that their friend or family member died, would they just forget that person all together? Or just think that they're still alive?
Good question.
According to the video, it deletes what you're thinking about when the pill takes action, so i guess if you're not 100% focusing on the fact that they died you would forget other memories of them too.
I think the way it goes is that I give you the drug and then tell you to think back to your friend's death. My words trigger your memory of, let's say, being told of your friend's death, much in the same way that the sound reminds the mice of the memory of pain. After telling you, though, your brain tries to use the proteins to recreate the memory so that you know what I'm talking about, but it can't, so the memory is gone. However, if given enough time for the drug's effects to go away, you should be able to remember everything else about the friend, so you would probably just logically conclude that the person is still alive - or at least, you don't know where he/she is or how he/she is doing.
Obviously this is just a guess but that's what I'm assuming, based on the video.
Bruh
From what I've found in other sources, the drug propranolol seems to target emotional memories. In other words, you don't forget the events that happened nor do you forget how it once made you feel. Your brain just forgets how to summon those emotions after treatment.
“Pill” is literally a trigger of the bad memory.
I will continue to hear this word forever. And I will remember.
I won’t take the pill after what happened to my brother.
Memories are like pages of a book called life and good or bad I can never tear pages off my books...
Adele is that you?
Omg ha ahahahahahahahhahahaa
+nonamecaca LMAOOOO HAHAHAHAH
nonamecaca hello ;)
Shabduli Shinde omg yes
I would use it to forget about every 5NAF game ever.
Those games aren't scary....
Fucking 6 year old
Toaster HD people dont play it because it's scary they play it for the lore, secrets, theories, etc.
+Toaster HD i agree
+Jan Randolf mate, you need to calm down.
Outlast was scary....
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
I can still remember when I was 4/5 yrs old. It's so vivid and easy because all I did was waiting for the door to get out.
Just keep swimming! Just keep swimming! Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming!
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P.Sherman 42 wallaby way, SYDNEY!!! YAS I DID IT AGAIN!
Why dont I remember things as a baby?
I know that but It would be nice to have a scientific explanation and maybe someone else dont know and they will learn something
Plot twist: Because you never were a baby.
Ronnie Valkema As to the science behind it it is actually fairly easy to explain, the neurons that control memories are not fully developed until around age four. A child will learn and remember small words and other things they will use more often as part of their normal development, but long term memories from before that point usually get over written.
Ambidex Game Online Plot twist: We are all still babies in the womb, this is all just a dream.
Ambidex Game Online M.Night Shamylan shit right there.
I have a bad memory, it's not horribly traumatic or anything, but it has affected my life 'till today. Sometimes I would like to take that memory away but at the same time, that memory has helped me to protect myself from some people. I supposed I just wouldn't take and start going to a terapist or something x.x
Like the video shows, people have short memories.I doesn't matter if a memorie is too awful, you're gonna forget the feeling soon or late.Go to a terapist to waste your time is not a good choise, he/she is going to sell you a comfort zone that relly doesn't exist, you will be the way to get his/her money.
jazzblack666 that's can be true, but there are actually good terapist who help can people, not all of them are useless. But yeah, maybe it's not why I need...
And memory can be such a complicated, subconcious thing. I didn't realize how it had affected me until this years and it has been almost 5 years since it happened, I just sat down to analize myself.
And I have no comfort zones!! I hate them xD It took me 10 years to learn english? yeah, let's try to learn dutch in a semester! have social exiety? Let's just fucking move out alone to another country to live with other 16 people! Love me, I complicate my own life xD But thank you for the advice :)
Well, you can take that bad memories and put them in a "comfort zone", i mean convert them into good memories.
Also my computer doesn't have his own voice, so don't know if in the last part was sarcatic or not. You Can go to see a shrink or not, but YOU gotta take your own decisions afeter the terapy, and if the terapist says "50 bucks is to low, next time pay $100 and bring me a six.pac and a donut" You can just leave or insulted him until even his ancestors got offended.Like i said , your call.
jazzblack666 No! I wasn't ebing sarcastic, I honestly thank the advice. And I think you're right about the last part, some doctors are like that, it's really shitty.
Or.. you can make it easy and date a psychiatrist...
I watched a traumatising scene in a movie, it’s 2am and can’t stop thinking about it. Now I’m here.
For those asking the movie was *Beast of No Nation*
If it was the rape scene that also really triggers me. Just take deep breaths and watch your favourite show ideally something funny ❤️
I'm here also because I saw a disturbing scene in a movie. The movie was Megan is missing.
I have OCD that fixates on certain events or things that people said that has driven me almost to suicide. The essential problem is the continuous looping of my brain, but the memories provide the fixation. I would certainly choose to erase certain memories if I could. For instance, even watching this video triggered anxiety about how reliable some old memories are. Ones that I like. I want to erase the former memory right now. Just an example. But the memories that drive me crazy are much worse.
What?
*****
They're translating all this learning into practical treatments, they just aren't quite there yet. At least we know they will be before too long, right now the options if you have OCD are very limited.
Yes, I agree it is the emotions triggerd by the memories that are the problem. For me, anxiety. One positive thing about this sort of research is they will probably figure out how to rewire that continuous looping and the emotional response eventually.
I hope the ocd you have gets better an goes and sits in a corner somewhere
I hope so too, every day. Thanks.
i wanna forget about school
Same.
School really suck tbh
If someone died, and now you are upset about it, you forget they died with the pill, then you ask "Where'd they go?", and then you find out their dead, and you freak out again... Yeah... Not a good idea... Neither is if you forget someone died so you don't have experience with it anymore, then someone else dies, instead of feeling it for a second time, so you already know what's going to happen, you will feel the same the first time instead of knowing how to cope with the depression of someone going. This is just an example, a big example of what it could be like... Or at least that's what it seems like for me.
The life I’ve had? Of course I would! The only thing about them I’d choose to remember is the lessons each traumatic experience taught me. 🙏🏽💯
That's not how that works. By removing the memory, the lesson would never have been learned, so you'd lose that too. That's the problem with removing bad memories. They're still a part of who we are, no matter how much we dislike them.
We learn from our mistakes and bad memories so I would keep them to understand the errors I have made and make sure they don't happen again
Yeah thats what ive been thinking to.
That's what I was going to say
What about seeing some shit and then not being able to sleep because of it?
Not all bad memories are helpful.
What about victims of person crimes? What lesson did my family learn by my wife being raped? It was a year of hell trying to hold us together. We suffered immensely for the brutal act of another. The intrusive thoughts and memories that haunt you, nightmares, crippling depression. I would pay anything to erase this from my life, like it never happened.
I wouldn't take it, having bad memories is better then having no memories at all, memories make us who we are, without them we are just a blank slate to make new ones
True..but my problem is I have very few interesting and cool memories..
This isn't a situation where we have to choose between retaining and losing all recollection of our entire lives.
Not always. As someone with a particular disorder, I can confirm that some memories are incredibly harrowing and you'd want to be rid of them. I agree with you that bad experiences are very important, but when a memory becomes something that you obsess over and it brings you great anxiety and depression, I'd argue that you're better off without it.
Nagatem Triangle Sama I see you have no comprehension of PTSD.
Wonderful, here, just take this pill, we promise to only erase the bad ones.
Ah, you're awake? Do you remember the current party, and the best one that's ever existed for all of time? No? Well, silly, it's Ingsoc! We've invented loads of things, the train, the plane, everything imaginable! food supplies are at their greatest! We've always been at war. Have a lovely day citizen!
How sad that they experiment with the rats with shocks when they could have done literally anything else. Give them a piece of food in a specific spot every time the sound is played and see if the rat runs to that spot; have it indicate that a door will open far away that'll let them into another area in the cage, and see if they head in that direction; etc etc etc.
You don't have to hurt something to get a reaction from it. Sometimes I feel like scientists just choose to do stuff like this because they're lonely sociopathic animal abusers who get their jollies doing experiments that hurt things and call it "science".
I got an idea, get over it
I have to point out that these "sociopathic animal abusers" tried to test the drug on bad memories which includes fear, anger, sadness, etc. I don't think that getting food would make for a memory that was required for that test.
FinnDuDe95 It didn't seem that they were trying to test specifically *bad* memories though; just memories that inflect emotion. Excitement is an emotion too. All they were looking for is if the rats tensed up when they heard the chime, preparing themselves to be shocked.
Having a dog hear a bell and seeing if he drooled is pretty much the same thing, but not as cruel. Rats can be trained just as easily so they didn't need to resort to inflicting pain on them.
There was a test where they experimented on various of rats with a bright light that shone straight down into their cage. Many were fearful of the light and would poop or run away. Some would freeze for a moment, then calm down. They bred the fearful rats and found that their children were just as, if not more, fearful than their parents. They tested drugs on the fearful rats to see if it would dull their instinct to flee despite their genetics. It worked.
Why not do a test similar to that?
Instead of shocking the rats, why not play a chime then turn the bright startling on for a few seconds. The trauma of being startled with the light would bring upon the same emotional trauma, but wouldn't physically harm them. Well, aside from the heart attacks and anxiety, I suppose...
It's sad that cosmetics companies test their products on animals. It's sad that newfound drugs are tested on animals. It's sad that animals are killed for the sake of wearing their fur or skin. It's sad that animals are slaughtered and allowed to painfully bleed to death for the sake of some beef or pork. Unfortunately, it's just the way it is.
***** Guess what? You aint gonna change shit about that, even if you preach on TH-cam. So, do us all a favor and come over to our nice little "I dont give a shit" lobby.
there are many things i want to forget, & i’m sure that would make my life so much better. but reflecting back on those memories helps me be a better person. i’m trying to forgive myself more & more with each passing day. i wonder how many more stupid things i would do if i didn’t keep those bad memories. forgive yourself & others, but never forget.
people are like : this rat abuse! but when they see one in their house they freak out and kill him...
Lol yup
woops, forgot my "is", i fat fingered.
Can't blame you for generallizing, since we as humans think in stereotypes, but the ones saying one thing do not nessecarily do the other.
Animals run the risk of being killed when entering other animals territory. Keeping rats locked up and exploiting them for research is pretty messed up. It's not something I complain against, but it does kind of make us arseholes.
I have pet rats😁
They tortured and traumatized rats for this information. This is equivalent to torturing a down syndrome person. Rats are very sensitive and smart animals, they are just like dogs.
These rats will go on to save millions of lives. If a rat was capable of knowing the good they were doing and they knew they were contributing emencly to our world, they would be happy.
So would you be ok to be locked up in individual boxes with all of your other family members for many generations, with nothing but water and lab cutlets, and have painful experiments inflicted on you and your future offspring, if it meant us discovering why we forget where we put our keys?
Ham ster It's true, I love animals, and think what they did was cruel.
We seem to kill them on a whim. Why stop at killing? Especially if good comes about from it.
No, but I would feel just as terrible if a family member or myself died from a mental illness that could have been treated- If animal testing was approved. Don't get me wrong, the topic is a double edged sword, but we are the only animals that think critcally before we kill another animal for our personal gains. Sometimes it's best to neglect our higher power of thinking and do this morbid acts to assure our dominance as a species.
I wouldn't take the pill. Because I think that we learn more from negative experiences and forgetting about them will have a bad side effect on our character, it would make us stumble twice on the same mistake, sort of thing. SO, as painful as it might be to remember, it's better that way IMO.
I completely agree. I would want to take the pill, but I feel like it wouldn't be right. We learn from negative and positive experiences and so I would want to live even with the most haunting memories. I think philosophically it is something that can be used to help define who we are.
Yeah i would do the same and would never take the pill because if we don't learn from our mistakes we might make the same mistake in future as well.
Also it doesnt seem an ethical way.
Crazy how all of us been through something bad that someone else did to us huh? I wish you beautiful days ahead. Not one day... but day one.
I don't take drugs. Because I'm a POTATO.
Are you the guy that makes chips?
I'm so sorry for your loss...
You flew around my room before I came
Well done!
Hello brother!
I'm a crisp...
i am not salty
Those poor mice......
I wouldn't take a forgetting pill if I could. What makes me myself is both good and bad memories.
I'd take it and think of all my awkward memories then watch loads of my favorite funniest shows and then I can go into the whole series again with the same funny
if I could choose what memories to forget, YES! SIGN ME UP!
so you're telling me that I can forget all those UnderTale spoilers?
+zaid wadi yeah, I got spoiled on the true final boss :(
Relatable *sighs*
All I want to forget is......the undertale fandom...sry why do people are ruining the nice game with something really embarrassing and something that the little kids don't wanna see
Yes you're a banana
Damien Hartley but I'm a potato
Does that mean that the elderly can't recall events properly because they'd had a very long time to reflect on the memories?
Correct!
that's actually half the reason. The other half is the receptors are getting old and are not getting replaced ( alzheimer ) The issue is when we get older your body becomes slower at replacing cells and soon it will stop. Some actually do well and try their best, but at around age 80 its a issue that's unstoppable.
This is my one worry about this drug that it could make this happen sooner rather than later if exposed too many times.
IloveJell0w Alzheimer is not a universal thing that is going to happen to everyone. When we become older we do lose some neurons but the ones that remain are much stronger. Also through repetition (firing of the same/similar neurons) you can prevent yourself from forgetting. You only have one worry about the drug? Not the countless illegal uses it could have?.---.
monkgot45 There are already short term memory drugs in cycle and those can even cause long term memory loss how is this one going to be any different ? Oh because its medical prescribed well that changes everything.
Also Alzheimer is more universal than you think however if you keep your brain fit you can fight it off till you hit the grave. .
IloveJell0w Because it's prescribed is exactly the reason why xD. There may be drugs which already do what is mentioned but they're less available and probably not as effective (such as ether was when it was given to patients). Marijuana and Ritalin (and Ritalin drugs) are damn good examples of this. Alzheimer is prominent in AROUND 80 +-10 percent of seniors so it is prominent. BUT it is NOT the reason we forget memories at a young age. That is due to a lack of potential of the neuron firing (which can have the potential of being recalled through firing of connected neurons). Also a Popscience channel doing a video on such this subject shows that it is more public (more available) friendly than just for a scientific journal (which is typically not perfected and harder to find)
When i was 5 years old my father took me from my mother with her conscent, to live with him and his new wife.
It quickly bacame apparent to me that she took an instant dislike to me, more like hatered. She had four children of her own. Anyway the abuse started off almost immediately making me stand in the corner of the room facing the wall for absolutely no reason that a five year old child would understand anyway. The days went on with low level mental abuse, well to a five year old boy it was devastating. My father was a long distant driver so all this abuse took place when he was out, but he could see that I was unhappy there. So her four children started to bully me and attacked me in the house. They had a dog that use to nip me, and they would all just laugh. I started to hear her mother say to her, "Why don't you just dump him somewhere." So after a year of mental tourment at the hands of everyone in that house, she finally decided to take her mothers advice and dump me on the street I was only 6 years. So Social services placed me with a foster family but after a year the moved me to a children's home. That was a blow to me because I became part of a loving family. When I was 8 years old they moved me to another children's gome where I stayed for 8 years. I left the children's home when I was 16, then they moved me to another children's home for a year, then when I was 17 they moved me to an half way house to get me use to an independant life. I left the care system as I went in feeling alone, worried, & affraid. Of course i have not put every awful experience in this post. Thank You.
Someone spoiled end game for me so I need to forget 😂
Same i hate people.
Someone spoiled naruto shippuden for me and I'm still yet to watch it
@@sarahs922 I've been spoiled by so many anime I haven't even watched yet ;Q;
@@travisaprilbennett3723 I know how it feels man 😔
I want to forget how babies are made 😂😂😂
That would not be beneficial. And what's with everyone using these stupid emojis for everything? Even my mom uses them...
+A Freaking Wizard
Holy shit, I've finnaly found someone who agrees that emojis are stupid and pointless. Thanks for having some actual sense, you've earned a sub
how old are you? lol
Get off your moms phone 5 year old
VIRGIN ALERT!
yes i will take that pill
I took a pill in ibiza
+Katy The Wolf To show avicii I was cool
I found out eyes can fall out, I used to pull on my eyelashes,
Im crying right now
No, I don't believe any memory should be taken away, no matter how terrifying, sad, or scared. One memory can change a person. Haha, I learned this lesson from Fruits Basket, if anyone has watched it
I believe some memories are better to be forgotten. It just depends on the person and the experience.
Eh I don't really watch slice of life often so no! But I'll look into it xD
Fruits Basket!! :D
Yup!
I was automatically reminded of Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. Even though it'd be cool to erase my bad memories, my bad experiences have helped me a ton with relationships, work, personal growth, etc.
I want to erase my memory of watching porn
That's a good one of you regret it
***** No, because I want to have a better life.
TheFVchannel You have to reflect on every single porn you've watched...
Raito Uchida I just watch lesbian porn.
TheFVchannel And? I'm just saying that to erase the memories you have to "remember" them again.
GIVE ME THAT DRUG THERES SO MUCH I NEED TO FORGET