Can you truly delete a memory from your brain?

Answer 1

Yes you can. Alzheimer's disease, drug usage, lack of oxygen to the brain, and other such diseases/factors that cause an adverse effect on the brain. There is no way to delete a specific memory, but anytime damage is done to the brain, something is lost. This could be the memory of how to use your left pinky finger, how to move your mouth to say a certain word, or the memory of a particular event. There are still lots we don't know about the brain, but you don't have to look far to see the effects of someone lossing the memory of how to do something. All you have to do is look at someone who had a stroke. Eventually the brain rewires or relearns how to do something.

Answer 2

Technically I think the answer is yes. The Brain has two memory banks the short term and long term memory banks. Long term memory is like a huge hard drive that stores all the important stuff that you really ought to remember. We are also blessed with a short term memory to temporarily store the boring stuff thats not important. This is deleted daily thank goodness!

Answer 3

Yes, get a brain surgeon to cut out or damage the part of your brain that holds memory in your brain. Thats how short term and long term memory loss occurs, a specific part of your brain being damaged.

2 small problems

1. You are probably going to lose all of your memory.
2. You may die.

Answer 4

wanta know something cool!!!?

every little thing that you see is being processed into your brain you have the choice to remember what you want and what you want to ignore. Thousands of little bits of inforamtion are all just being processed into you brain and you can only remeber some of the info.

you choice what you rember if you have a bad memory you should of closed your eyes then that insedint may of never happened.

a mermoy that is rembered is a memory that can not be forgotten.
you can foget all about it/ lets say you throw a rock in a river theres many other rocks but none of them can be removed only forgotten. All that it realy depends on is how big that rock is.

PEACE!@

Answer 5

I don't belief we can erase it but I believe it can be erased for us
I have very little memories under 8, and a very good reason too. Somehow I was given other images these images I share on the internet as they are relating to a theory, many theories mostly pointing out relevances to ancient history mythology religion and showing how everything is one and we are everything.
So, as memories were erased, images were put into their place-it's the only expanation to what I am sharing and how it all came about.
So, memories can be earased for you-usually by a trauma that you cannot comprehend

Answer 6

Nope, unless you suffer brain damage, which can destroy the areas where memory is stored. There are diseases and syndromes and drugs that can do this, but a normally functioning brain does not actually delete memory.

Answer 7

Yes. If you keep on not remembering something, your brain will gradually delete every part of memory that has something to do with the unused memory.

Answer 8

no, it just dissolves over time and somehow at the weirdest times it comes back. Whether it is a good memory or a bad memory, it finds its way home.

Answer 9

no way but if u had an accident to ur head or ur brain and if u fell in short term memory loss.. u will lose ur full memory

Answer 10

or repress and deny it. or let it go. works fine with me. yes you can delete a memory from your brain, in some form