If you don't take photos ..and lose your memory...are the memories still there somewhere in the universe?

Question

Or is everything just in your brain cells? If that's so...how do people have visions of things that happen to other people? Are these "memories" hanging around somewhere in the air etc.?

Answer 1

The information still exists as light energy in space.  An observer the correct distance away from earth (say 15 light years for an event 15 years ago) with an exceptionally strong telescope could view the event.  This is fundamentally true, but impractical, as the spinning of the earth would make it impossibly difficult for the observer to stay in the path of the light emitted by the event they wanted to see.

Answer 2

This is a good question because no one knows the answer.

Most of the experimental evidence for psi effects indicates that the brain and the mind are not identical. (This is not the case in the mainstream neurosciences, but they mostly ignore the evidence for psi effects.) This suggests that memory might not be *in* the brain, but it is probably closely related to brain function in some as yet unknown way.

Evidence from near-death cases where the brain has flatlined, but the experiencers still report memories of events that apparently took place while the brain was electrically "dead," suggest that memory must exist outside the brain in some form. Exactly how and where, no one knows.

Answer 3

Have you never been reminded of something you'd forgotten?

Answer 4

No.

Actually I have a photographic memory. If I don't take a picture I can't remember anything.

Answer 5

Well, speaking from the scientific perspective, the only biological structures that can hold information such as memories, ideas, etc., that our brains process are the neurons & synapses of the brain itself. Research (scientific research) has never yielded evidence to the contrary. But if you're asking from a spiritual perspective, some people believe that spirits have intelligence but it's obvious they don't have physical brains, so in that case you'd have to think that their memories are housed somewhere else in the universe.

Answer 6

Hmmm... well let's see. Some research suggest that memory is not entirely stored in the brain. There are some theories that suggest they are stored in everything from cells to individual energy fields. Of course this still suggest memories are stored within the body.

Other theories from Jung's Collective Unconscious to Biologist Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Resonance Field suggest that memories and experience are stored in something outside the physical body.

However, these things are not as easy to tap into as say recalling your dream last night (perhaps it is like not being able to recall your dream?).

Of course you could have visions of other people's experience and still have your memory intact (perhaps via telepathy or clairvoyance).

Some time distortions have been reported in Remote Viewing but most visions like the ones I think you are talking about happen in real time. In other words you see it as it happens not days later after the person has already experienced it. However, to study this time distortion  aspect would be interesting.

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Psiexploration

Answer 7

That brings up the questions of exactly who are we and what is the nature of our existence.   Where does our individual being end and a "collective consciousness" begin?  And how is that limited by space and time and disability and death?

There were great musicians, for example, who had unusual abilities at an early age and many who have been inspired have said their ideas came from somewhere else.  

These are some of the reasons some people say that the human mind is the next frontier for us to explore.

Answer 8

memories are experiences. so they would need to be in more than one head if they are shared experiences. i would think that whatever happens to theose memories is the same that happens to the ones that u "forget".  they are in the brain, just un-accessible.

interesting tho!

Answer 9

Great question! While we're still unraveling the mysteries of time and memory, I personally believe that everything that has ever happened is still happening in a continuous 'now' that flows away from 'here', but is accessible. Our present technology, aside from libraries, doesn't allow us to access that 'now', but I also believe that that accessibility is normal once we leave this physical plane.

Answer 10

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it's in your brain cells....

how can your memories from your body, your brain, just randomly fly out into space?

I would like somebody to answer that for me.

Answer 11

According to Tony Buzan, we train ourselves to forget most of the time than to remember. Taking photos to keep good memories in our lives are good way to remember but the memory is still there inside our brain. Memory is not in the air nor in the universe, it's in your head. We should train our brain to remember memories and informations that we have kept inside so that we don't have to collect and keep things for us to remember. The one that you mention here is impossible that a person can have visions of things that happen to other people? I only see that in the movies. Maybe one in every million in our population has the ability to do this kind of thing.