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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|'''Sharon/Athena:''' Just being with you and Kara feels like I've come home. It's like I'm back in the fleet.~~<br />~~ '''Helo:''' But you were never in the fleet. That was [[Cloning Blues\|the other]] [[Artificial Human\|Sharon.]]~~<br />~~ '''Sharon/Athena:''' I know. I know that. But I remember all of it. Like getting my wings. My first trip aboard the Galactica. You know, the memory of being in a uniform is so strong, is so potent, it's, like, I'm Sharon Valerii and this is my family. That's pretty weird, huh?~~<br />~~ '''Helo:''' That's okay. I like weird.\|'''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)\|Battlestar Galactica]]''' episode 207 ''"Home, pt 2".''}} A character gets others' memories or abilities through some external means, like magic or... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin\|ghosts]]. Compare with [[Genetic Memory]], which uses genetics, reincarnation, and whatnot. Or [[Fake Memories]], in which the implanted memory is totally made up. {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼ ▲== [[Anime]] == * A rather creepy part of the first ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' film. No, you have no ex-wife, or daughter. A hacker put them in your brain so you would do his bidding. ** Perhaps even more disturbing is the moment in which he is asked to look at the photo he kept trying to show his coworker of his daughter and it turns out to be a photo of him and ''his dog''. * Used by Gartlant (Yeah, I don't get the name either) in ''[[Saber Marionette J]]''. Each ''[[Those Wacky Nazis\|fuhrer]]'' gets the memories of his predecessors impressed on him by a machine. It's not a pleasant process, and turned the current Faust from a normal kid to a vicious bastard who mistreated Tiger, Panther, and Luchs/Lynx from that day forward. * Immortals in ''[[Baccano!]]'' [[You Kill It, You Bought It\|inherit the memories]] of any and every immortal that they kill by "devouring" them. How much they affect you depends on the person -- [[Idiot Hero\|Firo]] copes with having the memories of a three hundred-year-old [[Mad Scientist]] and eighteen of his victims by simply insisting [[Dumb Is Good\|he's too dumb to remember or make sense of any of it]], {{spoiler\|although he admits to Maiza several years later that he's terrified of the possibility that Szilard's sadistic tenancies might surface in his own personality}}. Czeslaw, on the other hand, [[Break the Cutie\|doesn't handle]] [[Creepy Child\|it quite]] [[Crazy Survivalist\|so well...]] ** While Firo has the memories of a bunch of strangers running through him, Czes picked up the ghost memory of his beloved guardian, who spent upwards of 200 years gleefully torturing the kid under [[For the Evulz\|the completely false premise]] of "[[For Science!]]". It's basically [[Amnesiac Dissonance]] leading to a(n even more) [[Broken Pedestal]], only the memories he recovered weren't his own. * ''[[The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer]]'': {{spoiler\|The Dog Knight's dying wish was to pass on his martial arts abilities to the Lizard Knight}} and himself appears when those abilities finally come into use. Line 21 ⟶ 20: * Absorbing people's memories is one side effect of Rogue's powers in most ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)\|X-Men]]'' continuities, as well. * In ''[[The Sandman]]'' {{spoiler\|the second Corinthian is troubled by occasionally experiencing thoughts and memories left over from the first one}}. * In ''[[Starman (~~Comic Book~~comics)\|Starman]]'' {{spoiler\|Will Payton and Prince Gavyn are merged into the same person and can switch between forms. While in the form of one, they have the [[Ghost Memory]] of the other.}} * In the [[DC Universe]], This is how the legacy of the Great Ten's Accomplished Perfect Physician works. Each new holder of the title inherits the collective memories of their predecessors; the current one is the seventeenth, giving him sixteen lifetimes of experience to draw on. Line 33 ⟶ 32: * ''[[The Sword of Truth]]'': Richard channels the skills of the titular sword's previous users in order to defeat a large group of master swordsmen. * ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'': {{spoiler\|Mat blurted out}} a wish {{spoiler\|to have the holes in his memory filled}}, and the wishgivers responded by filling his head with spare memories of other people who had visited them. {{spoiler\|This turns him into a brilliant general, and his already [[Born Lucky\|obscene luck]] doesn't hurt either}}. He also demonstrates cases of [[Genetic Memory]] early in the series. * [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[~~Discworld/A Hat Full of Sky\|~~A Hat Full of Sky]]'', a [[Discworld]] novel, has the hiver, a creature that inhabits people, drives them mad, and leaves with impressions of them when they die. A hiver inhabits the protagonist, Tiffany. It is eventually driven out, but for a while Tiffany has trouble figuring out who she is. By the next book it's all been settled, except for the memory of this one wizard who stirs every now and again to translate something or randomly exposit. It's not [[Sharing a Body]] or anything like that; he's called "a ghost of a ghost", not self-aware. ** Also, Jeanie, the Nac Mac Feegle's Kelda, is able to access the memories of all Kelda that have been and will be via a ritual. * In [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s ''[[Skylark Series\|The Skylark of Space]]'', the heroes befriend an alien race that builds mind-reading machines. They use one of these machines to learn each others' languages. Later, they use one on the brain of a ''dead'' enemy to learn his secrets, effectively gaining the memories of the dead person. Line 41 ⟶ 40: * In [[Robert Westall]]'s ''[[Urn Burial]]'', the Fefethil war-leader Prepoc's tomb included a 'memory-helmet' which gives it's human discoverer, Ralph Edwards, insights into Prepoc's past life by showing him 'snapshots' of things that had happened in it's owners life. == [[Live -Action TV]] == * Sharon "Athena" Valerii still had all of the memories of Sharon "Boomer" Valerii up to a certain point in ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)\|Battlestar Galactica]]''. This goes true for other Cylon models as well, but the Eights are the only model who we have seen sharing memories. Another Eight does it again in 'The Hub'. * In the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode Thanks For The Memory, Lister gives Rimmer 12 months of his memory as a birthday present. He really should have bought him a tie... * ''[[Dollhouse]]'' Actives usually have [[Fake Memories]], but sometimes get the memories of other people. Some of their fake personas are constructed from bits of actual people (anyone scanned by a Rossum medical brainscan), such as "Ellie Penn" in "Ghost". Line 54 ⟶ 53: * ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' Masters and Servants can see each others' memories while they sleep. This reveals Saber and Archer's backstories, goals, personalities and identities. They also tend to depress both Servants and Masters because the things they see tend to be real downers. * In ''[[Baroque (video game)\|Baroque]]'', the brothers "Left" and "Right" retain each other's memories when each of them die to replace each other. The kicker: For quite a bit of the game, they don't know the other exists. That wacky Amnesia. * ''[[~~Bioshock~~BioShock (series)]]'' and ''[[System Shock\|System Shock 2]]'' have these as a result of each games [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. While walking along, your character will occasionally see ghosts acting out what usually turn out to be their last moments alive. ** To be clear, it's revealed in an audio diary found near the beginning of "Arcadia" that {{spoiler\|the visions are from the genetic memory of any person whose ADAM was extracted(by the Little Sisters) from their blood to be recycled after they died. Those who splice up with the ADAM(including the main characters, Jack and Subject Delta) end up getting some of these memories with it, experienced in the form of seeing such "ghosts".}} [[~~Bioshock~~BioShock (series)]]! * It's implied that {{spoiler\|Bastila Shan}} from ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' is experiencing some... feedback from her [[Psychic Link\|Force Bond]]. Probably explains the [[Sanity Slippage]]. * In [[Final Fantasy V]], Krile inherits the abilities of {{spoiler\|Galuf after his death}}. Line 62 ⟶ 61: * In the webcomic ''[[Inverloch]]'', Neirran absorbs the mind of another mage who was dying. This gives her all his memories and access to all the spells he knew. * In [[MS Paint Adventures]], future Dream Rose "survives" her time line ceasing to exist by fusing with her present dream self, giving her memories of the alternate timeline. * ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': Ellen is an [[Opposite ~~Sex~~Gender Clone]] of another character, with all of his memories. Then Nioi showed up. Nioi claimed that since Ellen's [[Our Souls Are Different\|soul]] was barely a couple months old, while her body and mind are as old as she feels she is (about 17), she'll end up going insane. So Nioi "offers"<ref>she doesn't actually wait for Ellen to agree</ref> to "fix" the problem. For the next few weeks, when she slept, Ellen dreamt of life in another world, where she was born a girl (not a clone of a guy) and grew up normally. She retained all the memories of this other life, down to her own [[Squick\|birth]]. It's so far caused her as much angst as relief. == [[Web Original]] == * ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'': Agent Washington ~~from ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''~~ received the memories of the Alpha AI and its creator/[[Brain Uploading\|template]], {{spoiler\|the Director}} via its [[Living Memory]] component, Epsilon. The ~~[[A Is]]~~AIs in general, particularly Alpha, are examples of this, with their memories being based on their creator's. {{spoiler\|Epsilon!Tex is arguably also an example, with her memories being based on Epsilon's memories of what she should be like... which are in turn based on Church's memories, which are based on the Director's. It gets confusing.}} * In ''[[Hive Minds Give Good Hugs]]'', after Evelyn kills Hsthressis (who belongs to a species adapted for life in dark tunnels), she recreates Hsthressis's mind and places it in a new body mentally linked to Evelyn’s. While Evelyn’s [[Hive Mind]] instincts regard the body as belonging to it, Evelyn tries to respect the autonomy of Hsthressis as much as possible. However, in chapter 32 Hsthressis experiences one of Evelyn’s flashback dreams while Evelyn is asleep; this causes her to gain temporary knowledge of everything Evelyn knew, and subsequently freak out. Hsthressis largely calmed down by the end of the next chapter, but gained a reckless enthusiasm towards Evelyn's "blasphemous" knowledge; in particular, she wants to be 'taught' how to see, as she never had eyes. {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Ghost Memory~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Memory Tropes]] [[Category:Split Personality Tropes]] ▲[[Category:Ghost Memory]]