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Line 8: {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * 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''. Line 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 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... Line 64: == [[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:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Memory Tropes]] [[Category:Split Personality Tropes]] ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]