Memory suppression: Difference between revisions

Although memory suppression is similar in its effects to [[amnesia]], it differs in that it is usually possible for the person experiencing it to recall what happened during the process after it is over. However, [[amnesia]] by its very definition allows people to retain information within the present moment but renders them incapable of recalling it afterwards.

At level 4, the most profound aspect of all-encompassing long-term memory suppression is the way in which it obliterates one's ability to recall or even feel a general sense of their own name, identity, me-ness or selfhood. The experience of this is colloquially known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death ego death] and is well documented throughout the modern [[psychonaut]]ic subculture. It results in the profound experience that although one is not unconscious, there is no longer an “I” experiencing current sensory input; there is just the input as it is and by itself. This allows one to experience concepts from a perspective which is completely untainted by prior experience and memories due to the accompanying presence of simultaneous [[personal bias suppression]].</onlyinclude>