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Abnormally vivid or complete memory or the reawakening of impressions long seemingly forgotten (as at a moment of extreme danger).

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  • Another distortion of memory is called hypermnesia.
  • Not the same as deliberate fraud, hypermnesia can play havoc with our ability to give accurate testimony.
  • Or, run yourself through a full-on revivification of a past event, not hypermnesia but an actual re-experience.
  • Some of the processes that have taken hypnoanalysis charactristics for solo runs include The Journey Process by Brandon Bays (a snarfing of core transformation, partial...
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