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Heart donation and gaining new memory

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Heart donation and gaining new memory

Postby Just Negare » Mon May 04, 2009 6:02 pm

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I thought this was an interesting subject. Just saw this thing on TV about people who received a heart donation and then gained, apparently, some of the personality traits and in one case memories of the donor.

It was kinda creepy, one lady got a heart, and then had a dream about the guy, how he died and his name - and when she rung the donation co-ordinator she was spot on! And he came from a completely different part of the country so she can't have read about it in the paper.

Is it just a psychological reaction or something more? The programme reported that scientists have now found some brain cells in the heart... so?
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Re: Heart donation and gaining new memory

Postby Dead Metal » Tue May 05, 2009 2:16 pm

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I read somewhere that memories along with our plans are stored in our DNA. And that this gets given down the generations of the DNA, meaning that not only do you have your own memories but also those of your parents and all generations before you, they call it the book of life.
Kinda similar to the plot device in Assassins Creed.
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Re: Heart donation and gaining new memory

Postby Tristar » Tue May 05, 2009 10:01 pm

(Please remember this is just speculation on my part)

Actually I think it's called genetic memory, a persons DNA contains all the genetic information of each previous generation. Lets say when one parent made the donation(Sperm or egg) they had a scar of some kind. That scar is imprinted on the DNA at the time of Donation and may or may not show up on the child in a diluded form.

A good example of this would be my upper lip. During my fathers donation he had a scarr on his upper lip from when he shaved. I was born with a small concave area on my lip just where he had cut himself.
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Re: Heart donation and gaining new memory

Postby Wingspan » Wed Jun 03, 2009 11:10 pm

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What imprints that information into the DNA and how have memories not been uncovered in prior research of DNA strands? It seems the human body is lacking the systems to notify every DNA strand in each cell of such small changes.
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