Don't look into the light

[VeeDubBigBird]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/14100...

Worth a read and quite interesting even for fools like me.

I always thought that light could be a direct trigger for certain portions of the brain but never thought that memory would be one of them.

Amazing story and also a little scary, might explain why I could never remember nights out to clubs.

[Thorodin]

Fascinating stuff. These advances are increasingly amazing. I wonder if this research might give hints as to the fabled bright light that near-death experiences seem to produce? Like the 'light' erasing all
memories including involuntary breathing?

Edited by Thorodin on Sunday 12th October 16:44

[JimbobVFR]

So men in black was possibly more realistic than I first thought...

[otolith]

Only if you have been "genetically modified so that when nerve cells are activated, they both fluoresce green and express a protein that allows the cells to be switched off by light".

[KareemK]

Is there a 'home version' I can test on the wife?

Resetting her memory back to the day before she met me