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Memory Hostage

The practice of threatening your mind with an unpleasant memory to force it to produce information you can't recall.

While other memory techniques require practice and discipline, using Memory Hostage only requires a willingness to remember your most unpleasant experiences in great detail.
Rupert squinted slightly as he willed his memory to serve him through an inner Memory Hostage monologue. "Come on you bastard... give me my wife's birth date. Give me the date or I'll remember what my stepfather looked like naked while he had a moustache..."
by CatNumberFour March 21, 2026
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