Theme: Altered Memory

Altered Memory concerns works dealing with the manipulation, implantation and erasure of human memory. For works dealing with accidental or deliberately blanked memory see Films About Amnesia.

This concerns stories where people are given or find that they have artificially implanted memories; or where they discover that sections of their memory have been erased or altered in some way. A frequent story trope in SF is of someone who wakes up with a blank memory and sets out to find who they are.

There are also a number of SF films about devices that can allow the recording and playback of memory. Other SF works feature a plot about the transplant of another person’s memory whereupon the stories usually become thrillers about solving the other person’s murder.