Memory, Testimony and Trauma.

everyone who was around nyc on sept. 11th and saw the attacks rememebers they said building 7 was going to be a controlled demo because it was unsafe...now all i see is that it collapsed on it's own despite not being hit by a plane, and the towers have collapsed hours before...if someone asked me i would swear that's what happened, but that's apparently not what happened, it's not even a conspiracy kook thing, i could have sword they said they were demoing it because it was unsafe or something and dropped it...now everyone says it fell on it's own...it's like uh ok i guess

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>>9482790

Pic related might be a useful starting point for you in a certain sense. It does not dwell much into the specifics of trauma I guess but it does mention how one's account of memory relates to memory as a thing in itself, and has an autobiography/textbook dynamic which makes it a mostly entertaining read anyways.

The author also recounts his life from Nazi-time Vienna, so in a way the testimony by himself on how it was to be there during that time is something you can also compare by yourself with, lets say, historical news and such, and draw your own conclusions on how his perception affected his memory of the country.

>>9482790
Tralfamadorians.

Sorry, that's all I got OP. Fascinating topic though, interested in better posts than mine. I am absolutely certain the US Government has conducted research on TBI and PTSD, maybe some of their medical papers could help you.

Hijacking this a bit but what's should I read about the self, consciousness and private world/experience?I've just been mulling around with these concepts for a while but I don't have much to go on. Phenomenology (I think ) lite if there is anything like that.

also interested in examples of this outside like the holocaust and stuff that everybody knows about

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Aquino's "mind war"
"Moonwalking with Einstein" is a fun one.
Anything by Oliver Sacks...

>>9482790
Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma
By Sarah Clift

>>9483886
well, i can tell you when you do combat sports like boxing or mma it's really hard to tell how you're doing in during the fight, you have to rely on your corner man to let you know what's going on because you might think you're winning , or that you're losing, and in fact it's the opposite. also even if you sparred for weeks to get ready, when you're in the ring and the bell goes off and the fight is on for real, your sense of time and space is off, like everything feels stretched out and slow, i think the best fighters like mayweather capitalize on this feeling, but for journeyman fights it's like just like "woah everything is like all weird n shit", then after you watch the video of the fight and you're like "dude, i don't even remember that, holy shit" so i guess if you want to experience these weird experiences without going to a warzone, take a couple fights in boxing or mma, you'll get the idea

>>9482790
strictly speaking, this isn't exactly the sort of material you're after but intuition tells me you might be vaguely interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

>>9482790
The yellow birds deals with this in a surface / 1st person account dude way.

If you're writing it in america just have the guy take opiods, that's contemporary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Loftus