Cellular memory

Cellular memory is the hypothesis that such things as memories, habits, interests, and tastes may somehow be stored in all the cells of human bodies, not only in the brain.

The suggestion is based largely around anecdotal evidence of organ transplants after which the recipient was reported to have developed new habits or memories.

Reports

An article published in 2000 in Integrative Medicine, a short lived alternative therapy journal, reported stories of organ recipients who “inherited” such traits as a love for classical music, a change of sexual orientation, and changes in diet and vocabulary. To date, no case where personality traits or memories have been passed from donor to recipient following an organ transplant has ever been recorded in a peer reviewed medical or scientific journal.

In fiction

In an episode of The Simpsons titled “Treehouse of Horror IX,” Homer Simpson gets a hair and scalp transplant from executed murderer Snake Jailbird. The hair literally takes control of Homer, causing him to go on a killing spree.

Cellular memory plays a large role in the science fiction series Dune. Several characters undergo transformations which unlock cellular memories of their ancestors, enabling them to relive at will the lives of those who came before them.

In the 1991 film “Body Parts“, Bill Chrushank (Played by Jeff Fahey) loses his arm in a car accident and a criminal psychologist has it replaced with a limb that belonged to a serial killer. This causes Bill Chrushank’s personality to change into that of the serial killer.

The 2008 film The Eye starring Jessica Alba and the novel Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult all feature the concept of cellular memory.

The video game Assassin’s Creed features a similar concept known as Genetic memory.

In the Metal Gear Solid video game series, the antagonist Revolver Ocelot receives a transplanted hand from another character, Liquid Snake, and takes on a new persona as Liquid Ocelot.

Shocking examples of cellular memory

Professor Gary Schwartz’s findings are backed up by Dr Paul Pearsall, author of The Heart’s Code, a book dealing with the same phenomenon.

Their casebook also includes:

• A woman who was terrified of heights until she was given the lungs of a mountain climber. Dottie O’Connor, from Massachusetts, is now a climber.
• A seven-year-old girl had nightmares about being killed after being given the heart of a child who had been murdered.
• Paul Oldam, a lawyer from Milwaukee, received the heart of a 14-year-old boy and inherited his craving for Snickers.
• And a man of 25 received a woman’s heart and, to his girlfriend’s delight, now wants to go shopping all the time.

Man given heart of suicide victim marries donor’s widow and then kills himself in exactly the same way

A man who received the transplanted heart of a suicide victim has killed himself in exactly the same way.

And, astonishingly, the same wife is mourning all over again.

Sonny Graham, who had received Terry Cottle’s heart, also went on to marry his widow.

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Heart transplant recipient Sonny Graham, pictured with wife Cheryl, commited suicide

The couple met after Mr Graham started writing to her after being told her husband was his heart donor.

Twelve years after the successful transplant operation, Mr Graham shot himself dead, leaving his wife a widow for the second time in strikingly similar circumstances.

Friends said Mrs Graham, a nurse, is stunned by the bizarre turn of events.

Officials in Vidalia, Georgia, said Mr Graham, 69, died after shooting himself in the throat with a shotgun.

He was found in a garage at the home the couple shared.

In 1995, Mr Graham had been on the verge of death due to congestive heart failure.

He had less than six months to live when the call came through from the Medical University of South Carolina, telling him that a heart had just become available.

It belonged to Mr Cottle, 33, who had committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

Mr Graham went to the hospital from his home nearby and the heart was transplanted that day.

He did not know the identity of the donor, only that the heart belonged to a 33-year-old man.

A year later, Mr Graham contacted the organ donation agency wanting to thank the man’s family for the gift of life.

He began writing to Mr Cottle’s young widow Cheryl, a mother of four. The couple later met, fell in love, married and moved to Georgia.

Speaking shortly after their wedding, Mrs Graham said: “It helped me so much.

“Meeting Sonny made it easier for me, knowing something so good came from something so bad.”

Friends of Mr Graham said he had not shown any signs of being depressed.

Scientists say there are more than 70 documented cases of transplant patients having personality changes as they take on some of the characteristics of the donor.

Last month, a woman from Lancashire claimed her literary tastes changed radically following a kidney transplant.

Cheryl Johnson used to enjoy celebrity biographies and best sellers such as The Da Vinci Code.

But now she prefers classics such as Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.

Character changes in transplant recipients are known as cellular memory phenomenon.

However, medical experts are sceptical about the concept and insist there is little convincing evidence.

Jocelyn Wildenstein

Jocelyn Wildenstein, born Jocelynnys Dayannys da Silva Bezerra otherwise known as Jocelyn Cano (August 5, 1940, in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a wealthy socialite who has frequently been seen in the tabloid press because of her numerous cosmetic surgeries.^[1][2] Her appearance has led to the press giving her a lot of nicknames. Wildenstein has reportedly spent $4,000,000 (£2,746,216) on cosmetic surgery over the years^[3]. In 2004 she was named the world’s scariest celebrity on British tabloid the Daily Mail‘s website.^[4] Talk show host Craig Ferguson often uses a photo of her as part of a comedy bit on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, proclaiming her picture to be that of singer Kenny Rogers, who has also undergone plastic surgery.

Personal life

Jocelyn grew up in a wealthy family of Brazilian ancestry in Lausanne, Switzerland where she became a skilled hunter and pilot, which led to her being invited to a shooting weekend at the 66,000 acres private Kenyan game reserve of billionaire international art dealer Alec Wildenstein, son of Daniel Wildenstein, the owner of Wildenstein & Co., one of the world’s largest and most successful art conglomerates. Within a year, Jocelyn and Alec were married in Las Vegas. The couple became famous for their lavish, extravagant lifestyle, allegedly spending as much as $1,000,000 monthly. In interviews, she admitted to purchasing gowns worth $350,000. They maintained several homes, including a five-story townhouse on Park Avenue in New York, a house in Lausanne, a Paris flat, a French château; a Caribbean beach house; and the Kenyan ranch. The couple had two children. A lover of exotic animals, Jocelyn kept a capuchin monkey which traveled with the couple on their private jet, and a pack of five Italian greyhounds. She is known to have received several silicone injections to the lips, cheeks, and chin along with a facelift and eye reconstruction to appear more “feline”. Her eyelids were pulled up and back, giving them a more feline shape. This is also why she has been given the nickname “the real cat woman”.

After many years of marriage, Alec allegedly began an affair. In response, around the age of 50, Jocelyn began undergoing a series of plastic surgeries. Alec began an affair with a Russian fashion model, and pointed a gun at his wife when she confronted him, for which he was briefly jailed. Divorce proceedings were initiated, but neither partner would agree to vacate the New York townhouse that was their main home, and they drew up a plan dividing the premises. Jocelyn found her retinue of servants reduced to one, and was denied access to the jet. She sued Alec for $200 million, and tens of millions in art and homes. She also demanded interim support of $200,000 per month. According to court documents of the divorce proceedings, Alec said that “[I] couldn’t even recognize my own wife up close. She seems to think that you fix a face the same way you fix a house.” Jocelyn was ultimately awarded tens of millions of dollars in the divorce. She also auctioned an estimated $10 million of jewelry given to her by Alec and devoted herself to New York social life. In July 2000, the couple reportedly reunited. However, by 2008, she was in a relationship with the fashion designer Lloyd Klein, according to an interview the two gave on Entertainment Tonight. Alec Wildenstein died on 18 February 2008 from cancer.

Changing faces: Jocelyn today and at various stages of surgery going back to the 70s when she first went under the knife fearing her husband would leave her

Scary socialite: Jocelyn Wildenstein looks scarier than ever as she leaves a Hollywood restaurant last night after dining with a male companion The American socialite has been nicknamed the Bride of Wildenstein and dubbed the world

Places I’ve Been In Korea

Yudalsan Night Scene

Mudeung Mountain

Naejangsan

Odongdo Musical Fountain

Imja Island Tulips

Hampyeong

Jeju Green tea Plantation

In Marado

All-In Shooting place

Solomon Shereshevskii

Solomon Shereshevskii

Solomon Veniaminovich Shereshevskii (1886 - 1958) (Russian: Соломон Шерешевский), also known simply as ‘S’ (’Ш’), was a Russian journalist and mnemonist active in the 1920s. He became famous after an anecdotal event in which he was told off for not taking any notes while attending a speech in the mid-1920s. To the astonishment of everyone there (and to his own also, due to his belief that everybody had such an ability to recall), he could recall the speech perfectly, word by word.

Studies

Shereshevskii participated in many behavioral studies, most of them carried by the neuropsychologist Alexander Luria over a thirty year time span. Shereshevskii was asked to memorize complex mathematical formulae, huge matrices and even poems in foreign languages and did so in a matter of minutes. Despite his astounding memory performance, Shereshevskii scored absolutely average in intelligence tests.

Based on his studies, Luria diagnosed Shereshevskii as having an extremely strong version of synaesthesia, five-fold synaesthesia, in which the stimulation of one of his senses produces a reaction in every other. For example, if Shereshevskii heard a musical tone played he would immediately see a colour, touch would trigger a taste sensation and so on for each of the senses. With the images his synaesthesia produced, he could apply well-known mnemonic techniques. For example, when thinking about numbers he reported:

‘Take the number 1. This is a proud, well-built man; 2 is a high-spirited woman; 3 a gloomy person; 6 a man with a swollen foot; 7 a man with a moustache; 8 a very stout woman - a sack within a sack. As for the number 87, what I see is a fat woman and a man twirling his moustache.’ ^[1]

Problems

There is no doubt he had an active imagination, which helped him generate useful mnemonics. Unfortunately for him, his condition often produced unnecessary and distracting images or feelings. He had trouble memorizing things which weren’t literal in meaning, and had trouble recognizing faces, which he saw as “very changeable”. He also occasionally had problems reading, as the written words evoked distracting sensations. Things were far worse when he, for example, ate while reading. An example of the difficulties he faced in daily life can be seen in this quotation:

‘One time I went to buy some ice cream… I walked over to the vendor and asked her what kind of ice cream she had. ‘Fruit ice cream,’ she said. But she answered in such a tone that a whole pile of coals, of black cinders, came bursting out of her mouth, and I couldn’t bring myself to buy any ice cream after she had answered in that way …’ ^[2]

His mnemonic associations were so strong that it is said he could recall them after many years. After he discovered his own abilities, he performed as a mnemonist but this created confusion in his mind. He went as far as writing things down in a paper and burning it, so he could see the words in cinders, in a desperate attempt to forget them. Reportedly, in his late years, he realized he could forget facts with just a conscious desire to remove them from his memory, although this isn’t well verified.

Solomon Shereshevskii

As I’ve Matured

As I’ve Matured…

I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is
stalk them and hope they panic and give in…

I’ve learned that one good turn gets most of the blankets.

I’ve learned that no matter how much I care, some people are just
jackasses.

I’ve learned that it takes years to build up trust, and it only takessuspicion, not proof, to destroy it.

I’ve learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t compare yourself to others -
they are more screwed up than youthink.

I’ve learned thatdepression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

I’ve learned that it is not what you wear; it is how you take it off.

I’ve learned that you can keep vomiting long after you think you’re finished.

I’ve learned to not sweat the petty things, andnot pet the sweaty things.

I’ve learned that ex’s are like fungus, and keep coming back.

I’ve learned age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I’ve learned that I don’t suffer from insanity, I enjoy it.

I’ve learned that we are responsible for what we do,
unless we are celebrities.

I’ve learned that artificial intelligence is no match for natural
stupidity.

I’ve learned that 99% of the time when something isn’t working
in your house, one of your kids did it

I’ve learned that there is a fine line between genius and insanity.

I’ve learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon andall the less important ones just never go away.
And the real pains in the ass are permanent.

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