our memories shape our personalities continually day in day out. memories help us to develop as human beings over the course of time memory reminds us at every moment who we are by bringing the past to the surface but there is also a dog's side to memory images and details stored camera become distorted. one of the things that we haven't learned about memory is it doesn't work like a video tape recording it's more like a with the p.t. a play you can go in there and you can edit. the dense labyrinth of neurons in our brain is still a mystery scientists are trying to unlock it secrets in order to modify a particular memory or church or even artificially we need two things first we need to be able to find the memory in the brain and second we need to be able to manipulate. memories are often unreliable and impressionable and today's scientists