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Can memories be erased?
No. Your mind on a very deeper level of consciousness acts like a tape recorder on constant record. This is why we remember smells or we are reminded us of something. When you talk about it, it arrives to a conscious level and forms a subconscious belief to deal with external events. If you want to lesson the impact of a memory, understand it, accept it, acknowledge it and learn from it.
* Memories can be processed and the strong emotion felt associated with the memory dissapated. I’ve experienced it first hand and witnessed it occurring. EMDR is an amazing therapy.
* Traumatic experiences, mostly in childhood can be banished from conscious memory forever. Buried deep in the subconscious mind, never to resurface. Rare, but happens.
* I’ve often wished for amnesia. Certain events and people, good and bad, are imprinted, and impossible to forget, tho Dementia and Alzheimers do steal a lot of memories. My Grand Jaws had no idea who I was when she passed.
* It can be forgotten by disuse . . . Or it need not be used again and again by filling up the thought process with ‘Now’ or by selecting to use other memories . . .
* No. Your mind on a very deeper level of consciousness acts like a tape recorder on constant record. This is why we remember smells or we are reminded us of something. When you talk about it, it arrives to a conscious level and…
