So, do you guys think that who we are could exist at some cell level. That all of our cells know who we are and what we have experienced because our entire body shares the information at the cell level? Or is that just plain crazy? It certainly would explain this experience:
Cheryl Johnson, 37, says she has changed completely since receiving the organ in May. She believes that she must have picked up her new characteristics from the donor, a 59-year-old man who died from an aneurysm.
Now, not only has her personality changed, the single mother also claims that her tastes in literature have taken a dramatic turn. Whereas she only used to read low-brow novels, Dostoevsky has become her author of choice since the transplant.
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Academics in America have developed a theory called cellular memory phenomenon to explain the personality changes that are allegedly experienced by some transplant recipients.
Examples include a Massachusetts woman with vertigo who became a climber; a Milwaukee lawyer who began eating Snickers, having always hated chocolate; and a seven-year-old girl who had nightmares about being killed after being given the heart of a murdered child.
However, the only case recognised by the scientific community is that of a 15-year-old Australian girl whose blood type changed following a liver transplant.
It would also give new meaning to this passage:
Ephesians 4:15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
But I’m open to more scientific explanations, why do you think this happens?
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posted March 17, 2008 at 6:24 pm
The phenomenon is very rare but it has been recorded before. And no one has an explanation for it yet.
posted March 17, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Maybe the rarity of it would mean that a cell level memory would be far-fetched, don’t you think? Wouldn’t more people be affected if that were the case?
posted March 17, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I am skeptical, as a rule, but this isn’t so far-fetched to me.
My Uncle needed a heart transplant at 45. An 18-year-old football player was killed in a drunk driving accident, and his donated heart went to my uncle. Until that point in his life, he never had the stomach for country music, preferring jazz and blues. After the transplant, he began to listen to country music – not exclusively, but where there was once disdain, there was almost suddenly appreciation.
The football player who donated his hear to my Uncle was killed coming home from a Garth Brooks concert.
I know… I’m just sayin
Perhaps this isn’t as uncommon as all that, but simply isn’t reported in any official capacity very often?
posted March 17, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Great, my mother just have heart valve replacement surgery with pig tissue. Great, guys. Thanks.
posted March 17, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Call me a skeptic on this phenomena, but I would tend to assume that these reports are anecdotal. In general I think that only tissue from the central nervous system could carry information that could alter personality.
posted March 17, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Moonshadow, I hope your mom has a speedy recovery.
Also, if she suddenly develops the ability to sense truffles underground then I’ll re-evaluate my earlier position.
posted March 18, 2008 at 9:15 am
Sorry, Moonshadow!