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False Memory In The Film Total Recall

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Is it possible to implant a memory into someone's mind? When it comes to memory being implanted to an individual mind I think that is the term false memories comes in. False memory is the variation between memory and imagination which becomes obscured, and events that never actually happened but become sewn into an individual memory as real events. This individual then believe that the memory is real and most can even describe these false memories vividly as if they really experience them. For example in the movie “Total Recall”, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays an inattentive construction worker in the year 2084 name Douglas. Douglas visits a company named "Recall," which plants false memories into people's brains, in order for individual’s to experience the thrill of Mars without having to travel there. In the movie Arnold believes that the memories of mars is real but later discover that his entire life is actually a false memory and that everything was that he thought was real was just implanted into his mind . …show more content…

Human memory is highly subjective to misconception due to the high quantity of outside influences that affect what remember and how we remember it. There has been a time where it has been shown that outside influences from our family such as family resentment or other occurrences might be the cause of false memories being implanted into what we actually believe. False memories can be implanted in individual’s minds that do not consider themselves powerless or weak and uncritical. This shows how weak a person mind can be impacted by someone feeding them false information or even just asking them a question about their past. For example, most psychiatrists are able to bring up false memories inside adults who thought that they had maybe suppressed of these thoughts. A simple question like “do you remember the time when your mom and dad lost you in the mall?” can trigger false

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