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One morning in 2008, 32-year-old Naomi Jacobs
suffered something known as "temporary dissociative amnesia".
That morning she woke up believing she was 15 years old,
and that it was still 1992. She had forgotten the last 17 years of his life overnight.
It's scary, right?
Sure you will be surprised to know that her case is not unique in the world.
Each year, dozens of people suffer different types of amnesia.
That's why in today's video!
I made a compilation for you of 10 very strange cases of amnesia,
and I'm sure you'll be surprised!
-Screw you! -You do not have amnesia, Benny.
You have anger!
But before starting with the subject, I have a small question for you.
Near the Japanese island of Miyake,
there is a mysterious area where horrendous things are told.
The legend says that in this area boats and planes have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Do you know what the official name of that site is?
Choose the option that you believe is correct and write it in the comments right now.
At the end of the video, we'll see if your answer was correct, okay?
Now we are ready! Make yourself comfortable!
and enjoy it my friend!
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Naomi Jacobs.
As I told you at the beginning, one morning in 2008, 32-year-old Naomi Jacobs
woke up believing that she was 15 years old and still living in 1992.
Overnight she had forgotten the last 17 years of her life.
Her case was studied by several psychologists,
and they came to the conclusion that Naomi had suffered something called
“Temporary Dissociative Amnesia”,
supposedly caused by leading a stressful life.
What they could never explain was why her brain restarted just in 1992 and not on another date.
Very interesting!, don't you think?
Fortunately for Naomi, her amnesia lasted only a few days.
One morning she woke up remembering everything,
as if nothing had happened to her.
This strange experience motivated her to write a book telling her case.
In it she briefly talks about how difficult those days were,
especially because she was not even able to recognize her 10-year-old son,
much less recognize herself whenever she looked in the mirror.
Just imagine!
If you woke up now believing that you still have 15, even though you actually have 32,
it would be difficult, don't you think?
Although her case is very interesting, just wait to hear the other cases on this list.
Number 9
Ansel Bourne
On January 20, 1887, a man named Ansel Bourne
left his home to perform some personal tasks he had planned.
Before leaving he told his wife that he would be back in a moment.
What his wife did not expect was that for 3 long months,
she would not know anything about Mr. Ansel.
In all that time the police searched for him insistently.
Finally, one day in March of the same year, they found Mr. Bourne,
but with a small difference!
He claimed that his name was Alfred Brown, not Ansel Bourne.
How crazy, right?
It turns out that the day he left home to do his scheduled tasks,
he had suffered from a type of amnesia known as "dissociative fugue".
This caused him to adopt an identity that did not belong to him. The identity of Alfred Brown.
Fortunately, only a few days after they found him, he regained his memory.
If this man's name sounds familiar to you by chance,
it's because Jason Bourne's movie saga is slightly inspired by his story.
Number 8
Agatha Christie
On December 3, 1926, the writer Agatha Christie suffered a very strange episode of amnesia.
To date, all the details are not known because she always refused to comment on the matter.
The little that is known is that she had an argument with her husband
because he was cheating on her with another woman.
That same night, the writer disappeared!
Her car was found in the middle of a road, and nobody knew anything about her.
The police conducted a search operation, and managed to find it after 11 days.
The strange part is that she called herself Teresa Neele.
How crazy, right?
When they found her, she was staying in a hotel but she did not even know how she got there,
nor was she able to recognize the one who was still her husband at that time.
The two doctors who examined her came to the conclusion that Agatha Christie
had suffered a dissociative fugue, caused by a nervous breakdown.
Amazing!, right?
Number 7
Patient W.O.
In the world of medicine there are such extreme cases,
that sometimes specialists decide to use a pseudonym to protect the identity of the patient.
That is the case of Patient W.O.
-Crap! -The patient "Crap" does not exist, Benny.
It is known that this patient is an English man who suffers from a strange amnesia never seen before.
Apparently, his mind reboots every 90 minutes,
and makes him believe that it is 1:40 in the afternoon of May 14, 2005.
How scary, don't you think?
The records of the patient W.O. say that this was caused after his dentist
anesthetized him to perform a dental procedure.
In some way that nobody has been able to explain, anesthesia damaged his brain forever.
Now he not only finds it impossible to store new memories or learn new things,
but his mind returns to the same point every 90 minutes.
His family has looked for ways to help him deal with this situation.
They have left notes on his phone and wherever he can see them, so he can quickly understand
what's going on with his brain.
The doctors are still trying to find out what is the problem of "Patient W.O."
But to date, they have not found anything that can solve their case.
Number 6
Henry Molaison
The case of Henry Molaison's amnesia is one of the most famous
and complex cases in the history of medicine.
In 1953, when he was 27 years old, Henry underwent experimental neurosurgery
to try to control his epileptic seizures.
The operation was a success with this because he no longer suffered seizures,
but on the other hand, the procedure caused serious damage to his brain,
causing his brain to return to the same spot every 30 seconds.
Basically, if you had the opportunity to greet him in person,
you should have presented again every 30 seconds.
His condition was so severe that he could not return home.
He spent the rest of his life in a hospital in Connecticut, United States.
There the doctors did thousands of tests to try to reverse the damage, but they simply could not,
and decided to call his condition "Anterograde Amnesia”.
His amnesia allowed him to live until he was 82 years old,
only he could not live fully since that incident.
The last 55 years of his life, his brain was never the same again.
After his death, Henry's brain was donated to science,
and became the most studied brain in history.
Number 5
Susie McKinnon
The strange case of Susie McKinnon, is one of the few documented cases
of something called "deficient autobiographical memory", or lack of episodic memory.
Basically she knows that things happened to her,
but she does not remember those moments.
For example, she knows that she went to school, she knows that she got married,
she even knows that she has traveled with her husband
but she has no memories of those important events in her life.
It's very frightening! right?
So that you understand me better, imagine that memory is like this book.
On each page of this book is written a day of your life with all the important details.
If you want to remember the day of your first kiss, for example,
you just have to go to that day's page to remember how it was.
Unlike a normal brain, Susie McKinnon's brain can only access the index of that book.
To say it in some way!
She knows that things happened in his life,
but she does not remember how it happened or at what time.
Unlike the previous cases, Susie McKinnon was born with that condition.
It is known that in the world there are 2 other people like her.
Interesting, don't you think?
Number 4
Kent Cochrane
Mr. Cochrane's brain has been one of the most studied by neuroscience.
When he was 30 years old he suffered a serious motorcycle accident
that damaged his hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory.
When he woke up in the hospital he only remembered facts,
but he could not form vivid memories. For example,
he knew who his parents and friends were, but he did not remember spending time with them.
His case is quite similar to that of Susie McKinnon,
with the difference that Mr. Cochrane's brain no longer had the capacity to store new memories.
According to the doctors, Mr. Cochrane could learn new information,
as long as it was linked to some past memory, otherwise, it was not possible.
His case was so complex that 32 studies on his brain were published.
In 2014 he died at 62 years of age, without being able to learn anything new after his accident.
Number 3
Michelle Philpots
Do you remember the movie "50 First Dates"?
If you thought that a similar case to that movie was not possible,
I'll introduce you to Michelle Philpots.
In 1990, she suffered a serious car accident.
As a result of this she began to have seizures,
and the doctors explained that the problem was in her brain.
To try to solve it she underwent surgery that removed some damaged cells,
but that, as you can imagine, had its consequences.
That's how one morning in 1994 Michelle Philpots woke up with no short-term memory.
From that day, everything she does she forgets the next day.
-Bullshit! -You forget to bathe every day, Benny.
Because of this, every morning her husband has to remind her that they are married.
Fortunately, both met before their amnesia. Otherwise she would not even remember it.
How sad, right?
Number 2
Clive Wearing
Clive is popularly known as "The man with no short-term memory".
In 1985, when he was 47 years old,
he contracted a herpes simplex type 1 that later led to encephalitis.
Encephalitis caused serious damage to his brain, affecting several areas responsible for memory.
It was so serious that from that moment,
his memory was only able to run for 7 seconds at most until it was restarted again and again.
As if that were not enough, Clive can not remember anything of his past,
let alone form new memories.
The doctors say that the only person he remembers of his life is his wife Deborah
and no one else!
If you would like to see a little more about his case,
you can look for the documentary titled “The Man With 7 Seconds Of Memory”,
released in 2005.
Number 1
Nikki Pegram
On October 15, 2014, Nicki Pegram hit her head with a metal bar.
From that moment, she was no longer able to remember anything or almost nothing of his past,
and to further aggravate the matter,
the doctors discovered that his memory only worked for 15 hours at the most.
That's why every morning she wakes up, she believes it's October 15, 2014,
the date she hit her head!
To deal with her situation,
Nikki Pegram has a diary where she has summarized
what she should know about her brain, her condition and her life.
She leaves it on the bedside table because she knows that in the morning,
it is the first thing she will see when she wakes up.
The doctors who are helping her with her treatment have the slight hope
that she will recover her memory.
It seems that on some occasions she has been able to remember some of her dreams,
and that is good news for her.
How incredible! right?
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The answer to the riddle is the Pacific Bermuda Triangle.
This place is also known as devil's sea or dragon's triangle.
Although it has never been confirmed,
some stories say that ships and planes have disappeared on this site, and no one knows why.
Interesting, don't you think?
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