In 1985, English musician Clive Wearing suffered a brain infection—herpes encephalitis—that left him with both retrograde and anterograde amnesia. He was unable to remember anything prior to waking up from the coma caused by the encephalitis, and he was unable to form new memories since the coma. “It was as if every waking moment was the first waking moment,” his wife Deborah wrote in the memoir Forever Today. “Clive was under the constant impression that he had just emerged from unconsciousness because he had no evidence in his own mind of ever being awake before.” Despite suffering from one of…
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