While scrubbing off my reminder of a good night, I was thinking how amazing it is that sometimes you cannot remember a single event of a night that you really want to remember. Wouldn't it be incredible if you could just wipe the 'bad memories you want to forget' away, as easily as a permanent textered dick? So I went to my trusty friend google who always has an answer for me..
Apparently in Swiss research, "animals took a drug that dissolved a barrier around the part of the brain where mammals store their fear memories. Afterward, they stopped being afraid of noises that were linked to electric shocks, which meant their bad memories had been erased. So it seems in the near future we may be able to simply pop a pill to rid ourselves of bad memories." Not sure the pills will looks like these ones but it's certainly food for thought...
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/09/14/2009-09-14_erasing_pain.html#ixzz1B8zxGYUc
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