Weekly Trivia 9: Do You Remember?
In the Maze Runner, the Creator wiped the boys' memories before putting them into the maze. However, Thomas still remembers someone. Who is it and what was his connection to this character?
Come up with a creative way to wipe out bad memories and restore good ones.
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13 thoughts on “Weekly Trivia 9: Do You Remember?”
In the Maze Runner, Thomas still remembers a girl named Teresa due to telepathic connections.
Thomas remembered Teresa because he remembered her from the past and he thought he had some connections with her (telepathic connections) we also find out that they had worked together as creators
Thomas doesn’t have any memory of Teresa, but feels as if she he knows her. They had once worked together but later had their memories erased. Alby and Newt feel (in the beginning) that him and Teresa had a connection.
An awesome way to wipe out memories would be by having a piece of memory wiping gum. The more you chew the gum the more memories you lose.
A creative way would be to find a rare kind of scientist who can make a special gooey, green fourmula that knocks you out for three hours. You are given this formula to drink because removing memories, especially bad ones are rather painful for the subject. Next, the scientist performs a sacred ritual in which he takes a piece of your soul and mixes it in with the blood from an Inland Taipan (the deadliest snake in the world). Once that is mixed together, the scientist puts it in a peculiar cylinder which turns the mixture into sparkling powder. Next, he sprinkles the poweder over your body and black smoke comes out of your heart. If you had directly put the Inland Taipan’s blood on your body, you would have died but since you mixed it with something pure, it is an antibiotic to evil. When you are awake, you realize that you can’t remember anything bad in your life. But the scientist never told you the side effects- if you undergo the procedure, then you will become a child again emotionally, trusting everyone and everything. After all, you’ve never felt pain, right?
Together scientist and experts can manufacture a mechanical tree that comprises of leaves according to an individuals memories. The twist is that the roots of the trees will be connected to a person’s brain, so when a leaf is plucked from the tree, a bad memory will be eradicated or thrown into oblivion were it will never be remembered. After this process is completed the patients then can be given a tablet to fill that empty space of the once bad memory into a good memory from the person’s life. This I think is a creative way to wipe out bad memories and restore good ones.
Shaista A.
Thomas somewhat remembers Teresa. He doesn’t have any memories of her, but she somehow seems familiar, and he feels a connection to her. He and Teresa were brought into the Glade in two days, which has never happened before. When Teresa arrives, she goes into a coma, during which she telepathically speaks cryptic things to Thomas. As soon as she comes out of her coma, she goes and finds Thomas. It is then that they find out that they have a telepathic connection, and that they are different from the rest of the Gladers.
To wipe out bad memories, a computer could be connected to the patient’s cerebrum, and all memories could be transferred to the computer. Then, onto the computer, bad memories would be selected and then transferred to a memory card, and the rest of the memories would be transferred back to the patient’s brain. The computer would also discover good memories that the brain had kept hidden, and when the patient’s brain is disconnected from the computer and back to normal after the operation, the patient would watch videos of good memories their brains had kept hidden on the computer, which would make them remember the good memories they’d forgotten they had. As for the memory card holding the bad memories, the patient could either keep it, maybe to restore the memories in the future, or burn it, so they are lost forever.
A good way to wipe someone’s memory would be to have them write down their bad life memories in a special book. This book does not have a particular name. Although, it is “special” because once the person starts to write their bad memories down, they won’t be able to stop. This will prevent the person from refusing to continue writing. We all know that people would resist to having their memories erased, so this will push and force them to have these bad memories erased. Once the person starts to write in this book, they will lose the bad and replace it with the good. All that is needed to be done is to convince the person to start writing about their bad memories and they won’t be able to stop until the bad feels like it never existed. Until, the brain is wiped of the bad. This would be done in the person’s best interest in mind. This can also further be enhanced by teaching the person to think more about the good times rather than focusing on the bad.
If there’s a will, there’s a way… or so they say. But what if it was really possible to wipe out bad memories and emotions and any negative feeling? What if everything we ever know is only positive and there was no war, no sadness, but also no extreme emotions. How about this: we isolate a small population or community of people and put them in a new environment with everything in it. This environment would be controlled so there would be no war, no disease, no hunger. It would be virtually perfect. Then we wipe everybody’s memory in there. And every morning we’d wake up and get a shot right in our wrists where one of our major veins are (except for the one person whose memory didn’t get wiped). This shot would be a serum that contains a certain chemical that can’travel to the brain and prevent the trigger of the part of our brain that controls negative emotions or bad memories, so during the day we wouldn’t feel much and come evening we would have only felt good things. And it would be like this every morning so we wouldn’t ever experience anything bad again. And then people from outside would monitor the people inside and make sure that they never experience anything bad so they don’t have any bad memories. Problem solved. Creative? I think so 🙂
What if there was a drug?
A new medicine? That if we were to take, it would eat away our bad memories? However if you take more of it than you have bad memories, it’ll begin to eat your good memories until its hunger is satisfied.
If too much of it is taken, all your memories will be eaten. It will feel very pleasant, perhaps similar to a high or the feeling of morphine.
What if we found a well?
It looks absolutely ordinary but its water is fall from ordinary. It’s special. If you drop in something of value and then drink the water, it’ll wash away your bad memories and ”water” your good memories so they ‘bloom’ better and brighter. Depending on the value of what you drop it, the amount of bad memories it washes away and the quality of the ‘watering’ will vary.
However if you simply drink the water without dropping something of value, it’ll wipe away everything.
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