I have faced a minor version of amnesia 4 years before. I donated blood to one of my friends dad as early as 6 in the morning and met with an accident while riding back with out eating anything…
I still don’t remember what happened that whole day in my life.
Mom tells me that I was talking nonsense and was talking about things that happened a year before then. And finally I came back to senses after some 48 Hrs and man my head was feeling really crazy and I saw my helmet… It was literally broken in to two pieces… It is scary to even imagine that day with out my helmet(I still broke a tooth with the helmet)
The bast part was I almost broke into tears when I walked in to the ATM and couldn’t remember my Pin # and most of the phone #’s, keeping in mind that I have a great memory when it comes to remembering #’s.
It took me quite a while to come back to reality and to remember things… But I still can’t remember how I met with the accident who informed home about the accident, how I came home… and all the details… the called me home at 2 in the afternoon, I met with the accident at 6 in the morning, I really don’t know what happenned the whole morning!!!
I still gives me chills in my nerves when I think about it… anyways, thanks to my helmet for everything…
However, Sometimes I wish I had the complete amnesia and you never comeback to senses. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to start with a clean slate?(But I need Anita, no matter what!!!) I sometimes daydream about what would happen if I woke up one day in, say, China, and didn’t know who I was or what I was doing. I even thought about turning this idea into a book, anyways what are blogs there for… just like good friends…
But the whole amnesiac-with-a-story has been done to death in a lot of movies and a hell a lot of books.
Imagine when you are done with a book about you, may be a biography kinda thing and you read it after the amnesia how would it be!!! What would you think about it if you were’nt so completely biased?
Of course, amnesia would create its own problems, the first one being the fact that you probably got slammed hard on the head and now have brain damage. Anyways, many of the people I know already seem to have damaged their brains, so perhaps that wouldn’t matter so much.
And what would happen when my former wife / family / dog / other miscellaneous past loved one found me? And I had already re-married and had other children? And a new dog? My old family would probably forgive me and something would be worked out. Knowing the kind of dog I have, she would never forgive me...
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scary thought...wouldn't want it to happen to me or for that matter to anybody.
I got to tell you; I had a slightly different experience. When I was 11, I had typhoid for a month; I was totally out of senses; don't remember a think from that entire month other than the one scary nightmare I had over and over and my dad carrying me on his shoulder to the doctors office. I was in Chennai when I got the bug and returned home in Train with 100+ fever. So my recurring nightmare has to do with me running on the track and train trying to catch up and hit me. Every time, I will run so fast, I could become light and fly away. For years in my subconscious I thought I could fly!!!
Before that fever, I was in the top 3 ranks in my primary school. When I started high school, in sixth standard, I went to 7th rank, then 14th then 20th ranks. The worst was when I was in 8th standard. I almost failed the exam. Then suddenly in 9th standard, I got back to 3rd rank! Years later, I realized my temporary drop in academics had to do with the Typhoid I had, and change to English medium had nothing to do with it. Basically, my entire brain slowed down for 3 years!!! Thank God it miraculously came back!!! BTW, my nightmare continued well into my twenties.
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