Can memories be passed to your children from your sperm/DNA?

Question

I have a reason for believing it can , only after a few answers will I attempt to tell you why i ask.

OK .now i will tell you my experience.
I lived in Leeds as a child then moved to Newcastle at 12 years old. I had a little boy and when he was 4 years old i took him down to see my grandma in Leeds. When we was passing a large gas tower in Leeds my little boy spoke up in the back of the car and said " When I was young I used to swing of the top of the tower". I had to stop the car as my son had described what i used to do off that very same tower with my friends when i was about 8 or 9. We had passed several gas towers in Leeds and seen many of them around the north without him saying anything. Yet the only tower i have ever been up he points to and tells me he used to swing of it.
This is not a setup and It has seriously made me think about what we actually pass down to our children. The only other explanation i can think is that i was thinking about it when i passed the tower and he could read my mind!!

Answer 1

biologically and reasonbly thinking ... i would say no..... but from experieince and my odd sense of thinking i would say yes.....

Answer 2

Do you remember what was the answer of Thomas Eddison when he was asked about his inventions? " Ideas fly on the air.Just catch ithem".Any thought in your brain has a certain dynamic state.Since the quantum field due to your brain, by no means,can be restricted inside you for it is a field,has some influence to the surrounding space.This is usually the case and it doen't annoy anybody.When a thought is sentimentally strong is not just a thought.It is "thought structure".They have very strong influence to everybody.But they do not affect all the people!Only those with the same psychic structure as your kid, or your best friend etc.
The psychic does not go by inherritance.It is only supported. The development of soul starts with the first cry.Your child is a good receptor especially when feeling comfortable beside you.You have to protect him from the flying ideas for they are not all nice nor innocent.Tell him that "any idea which make you feel fear is an illusion!" Also "any idea which make you feel guilty without having commited a crime is just an illusion!"
It needs as everybody to be tought to ignore!And to focus always onto his own goal and not to share ideas of evil such as fear,anger,bad things will hapen,I am not of worth, I am *.* and any other thought against reason!Correct reasoning is only the free reasoning!Keep his heart free of anything trapping or anchoring it to things that do not exist like the past and the future."Live now!" must be his moto.

Answer 3

I don't think so, unless you consider inherited physiology (which you might be able to argue is a source of generating certain state-context memories) plus family stories being passed along.

For example, someone who has parents who are both musical have a son who is also musical (defined by a certain internal physiology and corresponding personality type).

If a certain family story is passed a long to this child from either of his parents, he might encode how the memory "feels" (i.e. level of anxiety, stimulation, boredom = emotion-dependent memory). Since the parent who told the story could have similar mechanism (due to similar genes) that encodes emotional material, the child's later retrieval (either orally or visually) may really feel like his/her own. As a result the memory is not thought of from coming from his/her parents' story but from a true individual experience.

hope that made some sense

Answer 4

Chemical knowledge has been observed in certain animals. There was an expirment done on a breed of flatworm where they have one worm learn where food is, then they kill it and feed it to another, then the other goes right to where the food is. It may not seem special but these worms absolutely hate light, yet the food was beyond light, so it knew it was there or it wouldn't have gone. As for genetic memory, I've seen no evidence to suggest it.

Answer 5

What makes you think this is possible?
The answer is no, DNA only transmits the genetic code in you, that is all the deceases you are vulnerable to strong againt, physical appearance, etc, your memories are stored in your brain, this is not part of what is written to your DNA, also your children will have a mixed genetic material of both parents, not just one (even if it appears that is the case).

Answer 6

I asked a similar question in genealogy a week ago because I onced passed through the New Forest and had a great feeling of deja-vu. Sometime later I mentioned to my dad about my stay in this area and he informed me that my ancestors lived in this part of the country.

Answer 7

Interesting question! I wish it were true..being able to pass down memories of things through DNA and sperm. I would love to feel the warmth and happiness from memories, even the painful ones.

Answer 8

Interesting.

Answer 9

I seem to have experienced a memory of my mother's, from her own perspective. I don't think it comes from DNA, because I remember that event from another position in the room. I think that we are strongly connected to our parents and some events are so intense that they can seep into to others that are so closely connected - either that or they are key frames in the Movie of Life and so more easily shared this way.

Peace!

Answer 10

this may well be particularly long, so I apologise. I had a coarse upbringing. My mom and father weren't the final human beings in any sense. My mum is an alcoholic, and he or she led to many issues in my young ones. I won't get into all of it now, yet subsequently of a crappy young ones (alongside with my college existence), I somewhat have little or no memory of my existence till around the age of 12-13. I even have little fleeting thoughts, such because of the fact the line I lived on, the school I went to, yet i do no longer keep in mind what my formative years domicile gave the effect of interior, and my sister is often pointing out issues that occurred that I have no recollection of. i comprehend 'selective memory' constantly sounds like a finished cop-out, yet i'm an honest sufferer of it. What I do keep in mind, in different readability, is as quickly as we went to my grandparents domicile on the west coast of Scotland. I keep in mind attempting to discover shells on the sea coast, picnics by ability of a Canal, swimming interior the sea (In Scotland, what replaced into I questioning of?). I keep in mind paddling on the shore and working faraway from crabs. Having sandwiches that appeared to be 0.5 sand, yet we did no longer care. playing conceal and seek for of their backyard (it replaced into the final backyard for it). mountaineering an excellent tree out back and hiding on the suitable. Stealing sparkling backyard peas from the backyard (the final thank you to consume peas), and raspberries and strawberries - then denying it even with actually having crimson palms. I keep in mind each and all of the friendly issues we did faraway from domicile. To me, this says that those thoughts have been greater advantageous than happy with the intention to interrupt by using!

Answer 11

dna can only pass genetic code, not memories as are stored in brain matter.