Passing A Lie Detector Test

[Bedbug]

Hmm... cut and paste failure, sorry @The Albatross.

 

[The Albatross]

No worries. Stuff happens.

 

[Lucycat]

http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/0...mories-can-beat-lie-detector-tests/55411.html

This might shed some light on the subject.

 

[Bedbug]

Thanks, @Lucycat!

 

[Hashi]

I had amnesia for several years and now, looking back, I can see times when memories were emerging but got supressed again. It happened in terms of my actions and what I said, but I didn't experience physical or emotional upset with that. Rarely, I'd have a volcanic outburst but that was always in response to something situational, not verbal. I remember discussions about the kinds of trauma I'd experiened, hearing things on the news etc, and that had no physiological effect. I can't imagine anything would have registered if I'd taken a lie detector test.

If I''d taken a test when I was consciously wondering whether things were true or not, I imagine I'd have been agitated about what the result would be and the lie detector would probably detect that, regardless of the actual truth.

Perhaps by touching the body in particular ways?

My mind's reeling! I think being touched in particular ways while hooked to a lie detector would in itself make anyone respond with a stress reaction.

Anyway, I feel strongly - from experience - that we recover memories/feel things are real when we're ready. That we shouldn't try to access that in some other way before it happens naturally. Early on, when I was desperate to know the truth about the fragmented and unbelievable memories I was starting to get, I had a lucid dream and realised while dreaming that I could ask my subconscious what I wanted to know. It was like your lie detector scenario but straight from the source of my buried memory and therefore reliable.

Actually, my subconscious resisted at first - it was trying to tell me something else - but I was very forceful and it began to answer. The first answer was so devastating I stopped. It was what I'd wanted to know the truth of, but I wasn't at all ready to hear it. I'm still upset that I "found out" that way. Everything else has been in the right way at the right time (not that it was easy). Nothing was right about knowing this at that point. Beforehand, I had really wanted to know. But it was a terrible experience and I was badly retraumatised.

I think the memories/truth are always there, but if they haven't emerged there's a good reason for that.