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You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn't happen at all if they're told them enough times.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.