…because it is scary to think that similar brain wiping science used in that movie is close at hand!

In “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, Jim Carrey plays a guy who decides to have the memories of his ex-girlfriend erased after she’s had him erased from her own memory. Well, researchers from the Medical College of Georgia and the East China Normal University have been looking into targeted amnesia which is removing a memory from the mind. Their hopes are that this experiment could lead to therapies that could erase traumatic memories from people’s minds and allow them to live their normal lives again.

I could definitely see the benefit of this, but something trips a fear in the back of my mind. Rebecca and I have been watching “Testees” on TV, where two guys earn a living from being lab testers. Last week, they underwent testing to cause amnesia and then all of their friends wreaked havoc on their minds by making them think they were types of people they really weren’t. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be the guinea pig for targeted memory removal for fear of removing every memory I have!

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