“Virtual Memory” Psi-mediated Memory Implants, A Second Account. Joseph Burkes MD 2026 Introduction: The term “Screen Memories” was the title of a psychoanalytic paper written by Dr. Sigmund Freud published in 1899. He proposed that such recollections were trivial or distorted memories from childhood that masked or replaced more traumatic events. Since the 1980s the UFO literature describing alleged alien abductions have suggested that screen memories have been created during some Close Encou...

The use of hypnosis as a memory retrieval technique continues to be a controversial topic in the UFO interest community. Over the years I have read about some of the scientific literature and have posted blogs about several topics concerning memory, hypnosis, and false memory syndromes. These topics are of special interest to me because three decades ago I developed a theory concerning what can be described from a physicalist point of view as psi mediated “illusory” mechanisms of contact with...

Submission Statement: The linked article is appropriate for this subreddit because it discusses the controversies of hypnosis as a memory retrieval tool. Hypnosis is being used in the UFO research community in Close Encounter witnesses. Memory Wars,Part One: Introduction, an American Psychological Association Article provides background on the controversial role of hypnosis in memory retrieval. I link this subject to the Virtual Experience Model’s “Virtual Memory”, a Virtual Experience of the...