Met a friend I haven’t seen for a very long time. We had some conversation, and I’ve shared some facts from my life. Most of them was ‘happened that, but I don’t remember the details’. I clearly lived someone else’s life through that moment.
That woke me up. That was a dream.
I was lying on my back and watching my ceiling, thinking. What was it? Recalling my life returned me that was the fake memories. I wasn’t sure for a while, but the following Air strike alert returned me to my reality of living in Ukraine and being at war with Russia.
They launched yet another terror attack on the civilian infrastructure.
Got me thinking. Imagine there are these pills you can get and wooo hooo, fake memories!
- Meet your ex? Tell her the good stories of you being too cool, so she would regret she left you! (Aren’t the pills for the losers anyway?)
- At a job interview? Drop one and you’re too sure you was a super successful startup founder, who sold it to some billionaire company and now you’re just looking for some interesting gig to participate.
- Met your old colleagues? Tell them this unbelievable success story you’ll be too sure happened!
- Eat one to make yourself confident till it wears out. If it ever does.
This is apparently not an original idea, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. Or for the masses, Total Recall.
But if I remember it correctly, neither Philip K. Dick, nor Arnold Schwarzenegger had it all as easy a as getting a pill.
What if someone would slip you a pill with the fake memories to overwrite your identity? What if they supply you with the constant pilling, considering the effect is wearing or could be discarded upon thinking thoroughly?
Scary shit, I tell you. I woke up being very confused why I’ve been telling her the facts of my life, adding ‘but I don’t remember any single detail’ to each one. Was I given a memory pill for the poor? That’s not how they supposed to work! You drink one and you are vivid on details! You don’t need to invent, you sincerely remember them! (Could be a nice advertising campaign, comparing that to a competitive product.)
Are Russia were giving us the fake memory pills for centuries? Us, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Georgians, Kazakhs, Tatars, and others. Wasn’t working on everyone, I see. Possibly their pills are just shit, as everything they produce. Yet, the experiment succeeded to some degree.
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, too.
I’m happy my memories aren’t fake.
I hope.
The caveat is, i guess, most people would have different memories of the very same events, while they’re still alive and well. Let us all be alive and well, and share those different memories with each other.
Clamp [champagne] 🍾
Did they put those pills in champagne, in popular culture? 🤔 😱