2007-02-20 05:33:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I have a friend who swears he remembers being born. he describes it as a light at the end of a tunnel. Whether its true or not, he really believes it.
Makes you wonder about reincarnation
2007-02-20 05:58:54 · answer #1 · answered by bebop_groove_bonanza 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The latest scientific research on infant memory indicates that newborns and children four years old or less, DO learn and remember quite a bit. BUT, they also forget great gobs of what they experience. Their memories are not as good as older children and adults. Being born is probably one of those things that gets forgotten very early, if it was every noted and recorded in the first place. To the baby, apparently, getting fed and figuring out what's going on around him is more important than looking backward on the womb and birth.
2007-02-20 05:46:11 · answer #2 · answered by DinDjinn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is possible to re-experience your birth, but not in our normal consciousness as the ego blocks this memory from us. The only way to remember your birth would be with an experience with lucid dreaming or from some sort of drug induced altered state, not that I recommend the latter. In our everyday existence it is not generally possible to remember being born
2013-12-27 09:17:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming (for the sake of argument) that we perhaps have some sort of savant with photographic memory abilities at birth? They could perhaps remember the event...but not in the way youre thinking.
Even with enhanced memory, our hypothetical human would still be a baby with a undeveloped visual and auditory system. Though neural activity would be building rapidly, espcially under high levels of stimuli, they wouldn't PERCIEVE the event as a fully developed human being would.
So perhaps its not so much that we don't remember being born...but we just didn't have much to remember with our limited newborn perceptual abilities, fast developing though they are!
2007-02-20 05:43:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so...but it would be SOOO cool if I could!
2007-02-20 05:40:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, if you were Einstein.
2007-02-20 05:40:40 · answer #6 · answered by b c 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I truly do not think so.
2007-02-20 05:39:25 · answer #7 · answered by Lauren v 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not at all.
2007-02-20 05:40:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't think that I would want to...............
2007-02-20 05:41:33 · answer #9 · answered by missy b 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋