Can you inherit memories and/or pas yours on?

Answer 1

A very interesting question, and personally I believe this can happen. Considering everything else that is passed on to our children through our DNA, susceptibility and pre-disposal to illness, intelligence, apptitude and so on, I see no reason why a profound memory or experience should not be passed on through the genes or even by an inexplicable process involving 2 genetically related people with a particularly close relationship using telepathy. They may be unaware that this is happening. Due to the complexities of the brain and the fact that scientists tell us we only use a third of it, I would not anyone tell you that it is not possible! The other 2/3rds must be there for some reason! There is so much we do not know ,but I feel that the evidence given by some people who have experienced this is compelling in some cases, and the short answer to your question is probably yes, we can. I will follow your responses with interest, and wish you luck with your research!

Answer 2

The difficulty in answering your question is the means that we might have memories. There are three possible means that are possible. One is that past memories are carried with a soul into a new incarnation....so you might recall your life at another time...many people aspire to be someone great...Napoleon, or Julius Caesar but this are usually just nonsense. The second is the possible transference of memories on an atomic or molecular plane...our brain is composed of atoms and while we don't understand how memories are stored, it is theoretically possible for those atoms to be released upon death and taken up by another person. To extrapolate this idea, you are breathing now some of the molecules of the dying breaths of George Washington and Ghengis Khan now. (remember the potential number of molecules in a single breath so it is feasible). The third way is much the same as the second but the atoms or molecules are attached to physical objects...imprinted on surroundings such as a photo in imprinted on paper. However, it is impossible to prove any of these things. I have regressed people under hypnosis and the subject detailed a life time of events, even to the point of seeing themselves buried in that existence...but not matter what physical proof we find, it isn't proof that there is reincarnation or such. It is an Intriguing problem.

Answer 3

You can inherit the brain capacity for memories, but not the memories themselves. You can also inherit the ability to carry out certain tasks without having been taught. The only way to pass memories on are to record them either in writing or by audio visual means.

Answer 4

I don't see why you cannot inherit memories, a sperm and an ova are not very big but they carry enough information to make a whole person, why shouldn't a little thing like memory be carried over?

Answer 5

Not likely.

Genetics determines what locations in your brain are responsible for particular tasks. everyone has a "visual cortex" responsible for processing visual information for example. however...experience plays a large role in brain development. if an individual is born blind, his or her "visual cortex" will be usurped by a different process (like hearing or something)

The brain is basically just a pattern recognition and prediction mechanism. As infants, our neurons grow and move to the locations genetics specifies...and we make this "model" of the world based on the input we receive. the world isn't random, and we pick up on the patterns in it, using these patterns to behave and make predictions about the future. our memories are just these patterns that we have collected over time and are unique to every individual.

think about this and maybe it will make more sense... let's say that your mother has all of her sensory modalities (like hearing, sight, etc.)... but you are born blind. her memories will have a lot of visual information...but you won't have the capabilities to process any kind of visual information.

you couldn't inherit her memories... memories are entirely based on individual sensory and mental experience in the world.

Answer 6

ideas are a private checklist of something you have genuinely experienced. So no, you may no longer inherit those. What you may benefit, through learn, is an awareness of many stuff that your loved ones has performed. looking photos of kinfolk supplies a sense for what their lives have been like. historic activities can shape the personalities of your ancestors.. in case you learn a grandfather survived an attack via Indians, it helps clarify why he might have been hard and autonomous. Or if somebody become orphaned, and had to fend for themselves at age 14, it ought to pass away them distant, extremely of affectionate. I genuinely have seen some very reliable issues exceeded down through my very own kin. Are they extremely ideas? No, they are no longer.

Answer 7

No, U can inherit instinct not memories.
& U pass UR knowledge on 2 the next generation.

Answer 8

I Think it is possible ?, although i don't have any memories of anything i can't explain, that does not mean others have not experienced it.
It would be weird though..having memories of being in the first world war or surviving the titanic !

Answer 9

you can not inherit the exact memory

although you can write them down or tell a story of the memory

Answer 10

i think it was carl jung who wrote that we have a collective or shared consciousness and this could draw from a kind of shared (or perhaps inherited?) memory.

jungian theory was a kind of alternative to freudian theory in psychological thought of the last century. it has been celebrated by those who believe in so-called occult/reincarnation ideas

whether it is true or not i do not know.