Question about memories
I don't know if there are any other plural people on gemini but maybe there are like brain doctors or something. So, ☕ has some memories that the body never experienced that are from before he joined the system (~300 years ago london). I know this happens to other plural people cause I've talked with a decent bit of them. What I haven't been able to gather is if there is any official research about this topic. It'd just be cool to know if scientists / researchers have found anything about the memories. That's all.
🐡 Breebee [mod, it/its, Breebee it/its, 🦴 she/her, ☕ he/they]
2025-09-22 · 7 months ago
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☕️ rolypolyphonic · 2025-09-24 at 04:25:
I do not believe there is any 'actual' research on the topic (and if there is, I have not seen any personally) but I gather that 'exomemories' are just unconscious 'reframings' of actual memories: the literal events that seem to be recalled may be things that never happened in the material world, but they cover similar emotional experiences or concerns.
I would argue that 'under the hood' it may be similar to positive symptoms associated with schizotypy like psychosis, perceptual distortions and eccentric beliefs (note: I am not saying that these are 'exactly the same' as psychosis, more that the mechanisms of why they happen may be similar). Research on the link between schizotypy and dissociation is relatively more common, at the very least.
Some of the perceptual distortions and eccentric beliefs associated with schizotypy may be linked to a heightened level of associative thinking (eg '[Literal event] reminds me of [symbolic representation]' which can in turn become '[Literal event] = [symbolic representation]'). I believe coupled with dissociation and/or memory issues, this could easily lead to things like daydreams, fantasies or any other hypothetical/symbolic thought being experienced as qualitatively similar to/indistinguishable from memories.