Amnesia
A Brief History of Getting So Wasted You Forget You Created Important Pop Culture
When you're loaded, you can forget entire nights, weekends, novels you've written, and seasons of television you've starred in.
How Video Games Could Benefit from Hurting Us More
Gaming representations of physical and mental suffering are regularly reductive. But by really making us hurt, these experiences could become unnerving and exciting.
The Strange Case of the American Tennis Pro Who Forgot English One Day and Thought He Was Swedish
The troubled life and mysterious death of a man named Michael Boatwright.
Woman Who Wakes Up Each Day Believing It's October 15, 2014 Is 'Fit to Work'
Nikki Pegram doesn't remember anything that happened in the past year, but has been denied disability payments because she was able to walk 200 meters and speak without prompting.
The Woman Who Woke Up in the Future
Naomi Jacobs went to bed a 32-year-old woman and woke up believing she was a teenager again. After temporarily losing 17 years of memories from a rare form of amnesia, Jacobs wrote a memoir about piecing her life back together.
The Dos and Don’ts of Making a Horror Video Game
I talked to the creator of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the new SOMA about how to make gamers piss their pants.
The Man with the 30-Second Memory
An interview with the brain doctor who worked with Henry Molaison for 46 years.