Can you Actually erase a scene from your mind?

Question

i saw a video clip that i didn't want to, and i can't stop thinking about it!! i don't want it to affect my studyings, couse i've worked too long and hard on them.
please any suggestions?
much appriciated.

Answer 1

New drug being used to treat ptsd sufferers, makes bad memories go away.
It's called "propranolol "

Answer 2

You can erase a memory like this.
First, it helps to reframe it, for your mind will want to get back to what you saw no matter how hard you try to forget it. Ironically, the harder we try to forget something, the more we think about it. This is because our mind can think only in pictures, not in NON-pictures.
So, first: recall the clip, knowing that this is the last time you will ever have to see it again. Really let it become clear in your mind, run it like the movie clip it really is.
Then imagine yourself in a theater watching the clip, seated on a chair.
Now, remove yourself from the chair and float backwards until you are in the projection booth.
Once you are there, take control of the projector. Slow it down until you see the clip almost frame by frame - so slow that it becomes boring to watch.
Now speed up the film. Run it so fast that all the scenes run into each other.
Now run it even faster. If the original clip was 10 minutes, it is now just a few seconds.
Repeat this until everything blurs to a gray mass.
Now take a snapshot of this gray mass. Make a still picture of it.
Now put a frame around the picture.
Make the picture retreat until it gets smaller and smaller, smaller and smaller, until it is a dot on the horizon.
Don't make it completely go away - it has uses for you as you will see in a second.
While the picture hovers as a dot on the horizon, call to your mind something you would really like to see: perhaps a successful completion of your studies. See yourself with diploma in hand, your friends and relatives cheering for you. Put yourself into your body, with a big smile on your face, and all those glorious feelings of accomplishment inside.
Really get into this scene. Let the sights, sounds, colors and feelings wash over you.
When you are the peak of this wonderful, joyful, positive experience, begin to reel in the dot from the horizon, and as it comes closer, put yourself and this wonderful scene in it.
Now, as the picture is up close again, you see a snapshot of yourself with all your dreams come true in there.
Look at the frame. Do you like the frame? If not, change it. Make it gold, silver, red, green, anything you really like.
Now you have a forever wonderful image to cling to, and every time you think about the clip, this is what you see, feel and experience.
This is an NLP technique that, if you really practice it, will work for you.
You can re-inforce this exercise by repeating it.
When you first do it, just do it once again - repeat the process from where the frame has a gray mass until it shows you in your glory.
Now that you have repeated it, you've done it twice.
Now go ahead and repeat it once again. This time, since you have already done it twice and you are repeating it, you're actually doing it four time (in your mind).
Now repeat it again. This time, since you've done it 4 times and repeating it, you're actually doing it 8 times.
The next repeat will yield you 16 experiences, then 32, then 64, then 128, then 256, and so on.
By now, your mind is so saturated with positive recall that this has become a very powerful process for you.

You can apply this same technique to other past experiences you wish to reframe, and even to future expectations as well. Make a movie out of a dreaded thing and reframe it as you did with this past experience.

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Roselle

Answer 3

Interesting. I've felt that way before.
Sadly, I don't think (save for sci-fi movies) there is a way to forget. I know that when people are traumatized, they can sometimes push a memory to the back of their mind, and kind of lock it up. But I don't know how that happens.
Since I've been through your situation, I say that there is nothing you can do but just wait. Sooner or later, it'll mean nothing but a big joke to you. Surround yourself and people or things that won't upset you with what you've seen. Or maybe, depennding on what you saw, you can use that knowlege to inspire you to do good things.
Either way, you just need to shake it off.

Answer 4

I'm curios as to the nature of the video clip you watched, it must be quite disturbing.

To answer your question, there are several tricks to change thought patterns.

Use visualizations or guided meditations to prevent the thought from coming up.

Also you could try to identify why you are disturbed / obsessed and go through an identification process and discover the root of the disturbance in your own life.

Answer 5

only time will heal that wound. i've done that before too. someone suggested i go to a site once to look at a video which wasn't bad but then when i started looking around the site for others i found some horrible things and couldn't get them out of my head. this is what i did to speed up the process...i kept filling my head with good images, looking up things like country, ocean, sunsets etc. scenes and looking up articles that were positive...basically just filled my mind with nothing but good pictures and thoughts, i stayed away from anything negative and although it didn't take it away completely the good things began to crowd out the bad stuff...remember the old adage 'garbage in, garbage out'? you put bad in your head you act that way. well if thats true then the opposite would be true...good in, good out...you'll be happier and those around you will...remember good, uplifting positive songs,thoughts and images and before too long that bad image will be left far behind....good luck

Answer 6

Sadly, you can't. I'm a veteran of two wars and suffer very seriously from Post Traumatic Stress. You have to learn to make peace with what you saw and better yourself somehow.

Good luck. It's not easy and you can't do it alone.

Answer 7

Meditation is to think upon....change your thinking. The fact is when the scene is ugly or unwanted for any reason, we can change the tape by putting in another one.

Answer 8

Time will erase it my dear. It is a matter of time!!!