Thought provoking

[sal_amanda]

so i've been reading up on anne rice. her biography. and it's been real interesting to see what was in her life and her thoughts when she wrote the things that she wrote. although they need an update from the past decade since that biography was written.

but there's a point here. they were discussing the Tale of the Body Thief. it's a body switching story. now think of all the body switching movies you've ever seen. Freaky Friday (both versions), Vice Versa, etc. and there have been written stories for centuries, some of which are referenced in anne rice's book on the subject.

this is what i was thinking last night when i couldn't fall asleep. okay. so their souls or spirits or essences or whatever switch bodies. but their brains stay put. so how is it that they always retain all of their knowledge when they switch? and don't have the knowledge of the body they move into?

Comments

[heywoodjabloski.livejournal.com]

that is an interesting thought...
a lot of possession stories do have retention, but none of the simple/popular ones...

[sal_amanda]

but possession is different from body switching. i don't know. it's just a thought that bugs me more everytime i think of it.

[heywoodjabloski.livejournal.com]

you're bugged by odd things
O=)

[sal_amanda]

it's a curse of mine.

[jessakeenie.livejournal.com]

because it's more interesting and funnier that way? :)

[sal_amanda]

yeah, i know, and i agree. i don't like to be the person that takes a movie or story too seriously. it is fiction, after all, and it was in a book about vampires that made me think about it. plus i read comic books and watch soap operas so i have a pretty high threshold for suspending my disbelief. but now that i've had this thought, i'm stuck with it.