The biggest problem with these shows today is the major allowance or requirement of advertising time so there's less time to get more meat into 1 episode, which makes it tough to write the scripts & add all the info that was in series episodes back when all had at least 21 to 23 episode seasons without everybody taking 2-3 months off twice in a single season! (Oh I hate these 6 & 13 episode seasons that take over a year to 1 & 1/2yrs to come back to air! - that's my peeve!)
I think human cells have memory. Body builders, MMA fighters, boxers, divers (I used to scuba & free-dive as well as rock-climb) all have muscle memory where you do things automatically without thinking about it after you've done it so many times. The body just works on autopilot, which I believe is probably just like muscle-memory. I know from my diving days that when I felt a cramp in my legs come on it was automatic to slow down my heart rate, pulse rate, etc.. & calmly work out the kink w/o panic b/c it was just 2nd nature. The same was true of when climbing & not finding the next crevice.
If you think about it - when you drive home or go to work often you do so without thinking of where you are going. It's not really something you consciously do either. I know back when I still had enough sight to drive, often I've come home & not even remember driving the route to get there. I think of that as a type of 'muscle memory', even though it is mental as much as muscular. MOF, after I moved from the DC area to where I live now (general area, not the same place b/c I moved around & later married then we bought our home but it took 5yrs of living in this area b4 getting to the marriage part - I wasn't a big fan of marriage b/c of my birth parents - 1 was abusive drunk & other was enabler who threw me & my sibling under the bus & in the line of fire so we got the beatings then just me out of need to protect my younger sibling out of a need to protect & then after turning 16, emancipating & gaining guardianship then they disappeared & we did too b/c our birth father was pissed! Birth mother was only slightly less but definitely pissed & our birth father was dangerous. If we hadn't gotten out, I know that either he'd kill 1 of us or I'd have killed him before we each reached legal age to get out! Almost happened numerous times prior to the court hearing, esp leading up to it after the paperwork was served!) But the woman & man who ultimately became Mom & Dad to me but more like a grandmother & grandfather to my sibling-turn-child, while not my biological parents (Mom was an older sibling of our birth mother & Dad was actually a man I thought was my birth father b/c I had memories of him w/my birth mother & led to believe he died but we accidentally found each other yrs later & it was wonderful even tho he wasn't my birth father but rather the man my birth mother married but moved in w/when I was an infant but she ran back to the abusive *beep* when I was around 7yrs old but the memories of that time are repressed according to the therapist we were both seeing in order to get thru what happened to us & how to get beyond it. The memories may resurface in time but there's smaller chance the longer they're buried & I have 2 grown children of my own as well as a sibling who is grown, married, & has children who are middle-school age now so it probably won't happen, but I digress)...
I can remember driving back & forth from here to Dad's over the weekends & he lived just above DC where I lived just outside near Georgetown U. I have made that 6+hr drive so many times over weekends that there were times when I couldn't recall the physical choices of taking specific roads & interstate changes to get to Dad's house or back home to my own! And this was a far cry from the 20 to 30mins between home & work from the last company I worked for let alone the 1-2hr plus drives I've made to get to work and back from the years after the emancipation & guardianship hearing.
But yeah, I can actually postulate the probability that cells would retain memory just like muscles based on my personal experiences climbing, base jumping, scuba & free-diving, & even driving w/o actually thinking of what I was doing but rather doing it b/c it was what came naturally.
Most amnesia victims can recall how to drive or perform some type or specific work they did before the loss of memory when they can't even recall their own names. I don't think this would be much different. Do you? I'd be interested in what you think.
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