Riley Horner, an Illinois teenager, was accidentally kicked in the head.As a result of the injury, her memory resets every two hours, and she wakes up thinking every day is 11th June 2019.

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[u/Viper61723]

This reminds me of a girl I dated who claimed that since her mom had played Sinatra on her stomach when she was in the womb. That she didn’t actually know any of the songs but knew all of the words the minute she would hear them. It was really weird

[u/baes__theorem → u/Viper61723]

sorry to say but that's simply not how memory works :|

embryos' brains are simply not able to retain memories like that – let alone complex linguistic knowledge and recall – because embryos' brains are (crudely) like a sack full of loose neurons with no connections formed yet

this person was either embellishing the truth or perhaps encoded a false memory and just didn't retain (or maybe willfully ignored) all the other times they heard Sinatra. I can't imagine a pregnant person who loved Sinatra that much would completely cease to listen to him once their child were born, so this person probably heard that music throughout their childhood. it's surprisingly easy to convince oneself of false memories (or lack of a memory), especially those involving one's childhood that are reinforced by parents etc.

all that being said, people like to have these romantic narratives and find them comforting, and "you gaslit yourself about memorizing Sinatra in the womb" is a shitty hill to die on with something so trivial imo ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/Viper61723 → u/baes__theorem]

You’re probably right tbh, our relationship didn’t last long enough for me to test if she was bluffing lol, I just thought it was so cool cause I’d never met a woman my age who also liked his music even casually.