Memories story
A hypnotist who specializes in helping people relive their past lives tries to find her own history—and finds that everyone she ever helped hates their past lives. Directed by: Richard Bugajski. Story by: Bob Underwood.
9 total · 2 choice · 3 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| memories from past lives | choice | We saw a world in which practically everyone had such memories. |
| what if I found myself in an alternate reality | choice | Mary woke up one morning into a world in which it people recalled their past lives in great detail. |
| compassion | major | Mary showed a genuine interest in helping other people. First, her hypnotic regression therapy patient to remember her past lives, then she talked a desperate woman out of killing herself, then in helping people to forget about their memories of past lives. |
| coping with a disability | major | In a society where everyone could recall their past lives, Mary's inability to do so was akin to a disability. |
| reincarnation | major | Mary woke up one morning in a world where it was taken for granted that virtually everyone had lived past lives. |
| speculative hypnosis | minor | The story opened with Mary performing a hypnotic regression on a patient. |
| suicide | minor | Mary stopped a fat woman from killing herself. |
| talking someone out of suicide | minor | Mary stopped a fat woman from killing herself. |
| truth inducing technology | minor | Mary was injected with a glowing blue truth serum. |