The forgetting pill

[Fantasies_only]

This story is a docudrama.
A docudrama is based on real life, with real events, but details of these events are untrue, and usually fictional people are in the rolls.

This idea is based on a real product that was banned by the Food and Drug Administration.
It was theorized a bad memory such as your child dying, could be deleted just by swallowing a little pill, so that's exactly what was made.

After the setbacks of side effects and addiction, it was ready to be mass produced, but the FDA thought if too much was taken you could lose a good memory, such as your child being born.
The drug was sent back to the maker who refined it to selective memories ONLY.
In addition, it was short term memory instead of short and long term.

It was ready to go to market when the government was notified it was about to be sold to the public, used in an uncontrolled environment.
All shipments were recalled and factories shut down with the unanimous decision that this drug was just too dangerous if it fell in the wrong hands.

What if that's just what happened?

There will be two versions of the same story, one erotic and one non erotic.
I expect both versions to include some type of subliminal suggestion.

Don't include realistic consequences in the erotic version.

 

[Fantasies_only]

Maybe I didn't make myself clear.
Out of this real situation, can you come up with fictional details that would start a story?
Don't copy movies like Matrix, but it can have a similar theme.

 

[conversant]

Fictional details?

Shit this actually happened to me, only it wasn't some big scary "artificial chemical"
hell no, who needs artifice when mother nature can hit you so hard, you forget
the last few years of your life.

In my case it was a totally natural herb, (no not 420! please, that's not nearly powerful enough)
I'll give you a hint: The state flower of California.

Totally natural, totally unprocessed, straight up, "fruit of the earth" situation.
Maybe a teaspoon of dried crushed leaves, steeped into a tea.

Sleep aid my ass...

I won't be judging the hippies around me who love knocking the scientific process of drug engineering, but at the same time
there's an awful lot about good old mother nature that the holistic crowd isn't too eager to mention.

Making metaphors, gone.
A solid 30% to 40% of declarative memory, gone.
A morbidly cruel and drawn out case of "tip of the tongue" syndrome. (though I'v made solid headway in eliminating that)

140 hour to 200 hour half life. That's insanely long for almost any drug, let alone a tea based infusion.
Active Metabolites anyone?

Look up benzodiazepines, the long acting variety. Now extend that half life a bit more.
Again, no lab cooked this puppy up, it's straight up natural.

In fact the native american tribes of the pacific northwest used this flowering plant in medicinal cases.

It's been documented that large doses of short acting benzodiazepines have been used in cases of painful surgeries,
in order to reduce long-term trauma (psychological trauma) due to the intense pain.

Memories?

Memories aren't just information, inert and listless facts and figures. No sir memories are more like seeds,
waiting under the topsoil for the right time to sprout, and once they do come to life they wake up other memories.

Everything is totally interconnected.

Conspiracy? Who needs secret government stories when nature/reality i.e. "The truth" is infinitely more
potent and unforgiving than any contrived entity like a government could hope to be?

I'v learned that nature can heal alright, but that doesn't mean nature doesn't also
go primal too.

Respect for the unseen and unnoticed, that's a gift hard to attain... It's worth it though...

Ironically, I'm grateful for the experience....

 

[Fantasies_only]

Fictional details?

Shit this actually happened to me, only it wasn't some big scary "artificial chemical"
hell no, who needs artifice when mother nature can hit you so hard, you forget
the last few years of your life.

In my case it was a totally natural herb, (no not 420! please, that's not nearly powerful enough)
I'll give you a hint: The state flower of California.

Totally natural, totally unprocessed, straight up, "fruit of the earth" situation.
Maybe a teaspoon of dried crushed leaves, steeped into a tea.

Sleep aid my ass...

I won't be judging the hippies around me who love knocking the scientific process of drug engineering, but at the same time
there's an awful lot about good old mother nature that the holistic crowd isn't too eager to mention.

Making metaphors, gone.
A solid 30% to 40% of declarative memory, gone.
A morbidly cruel and drawn out case of "tip of the tongue" syndrome. (though I'v made solid headway in eliminating that)

140 hour to 200 hour half life. That's insanely long for almost any drug, let alone a tea based infusion.
Active Metabolites anyone?

Look up benzodiazepines, the long acting variety. Now extend that half life a bit more.
Again, no lab cooked this puppy up, it's straight up natural.

In fact the native american tribes of the pacific northwest used this flowering plant in medicinal cases.

It's been documented that large doses of short acting benzodiazepines have been used in cases of painful surgeries,
in order to reduce long-term trauma (psychological trauma) due to the intense pain.

Memories?

Memories aren't just information, inert and listless facts and figures. No sir memories are more like seeds,
waiting under the topsoil for the right time to sprout, and once they do come to life they wake up other memories.

Everything is totally interconnected.

Conspiracy? Who needs secret government stories when nature/reality i.e. "The truth" is infinitely more
potent and unforgiving than any contrived entity like a government could hope to be?

I'v learned that nature can heal alright, but that doesn't mean nature doesn't also
go primal too.

Respect for the unseen and unnoticed, that's a gift hard to attain... It's worth it though...

Ironically, I'm grateful for the experience....

I'm sure that plant is in the pill (like opium in poppy seeds), but he made it for selective memories, not just random memories.

If anyone is questioning this pill, there is a 94 patent for method and 95 patent for method and product, with an article in Scientific American in 1996.