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* In {{Fringe}}, this is done to [[spoiler:Olivia to convince her that she is her alternate universe counterpart.]]
* The Trill in StarTrek are small slug like creatures that can bond to a host body, and when the body dies it is implanted in a new one, giving it all the memories and experiences of the previous hosts
** Also in the TheNextGeneration episode, "The Inner Light," Captain Picard receives a lifetime of memories belonging to a man named Kamin on a dying world through Alien [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum.]]

* In the ''RedDwarf'' episode Thanks For The Memory, Lister gives Rimmer 12 months of his memory as a birthday present. He really should have bought him a tie...

* The Trill in StarTrek are small slug like creatures that can bond to a host body, and when the body dies it is implanted in a new one, giving it all the memories and experiences of the previous hosts.

* ''ElGoonishShive'': Ellen is an OppositeSexClone of another character, with all of his memories. Then Nioi showed up. Nioi claimed that since Ellen's [[OurSoulsAreDifferent soul]] was barely a couple months old, while her body and mind are as old as she feels she is (about 17), she'll end up going insane. So Nioi "offers"[[hottip:*:she doesn't actually wait for Ellen to agree]] to "fix" the problem. For the next few weeks, when she slept, Ellen dreamt of life in another world, where she was born a girl (not a clone of a guy) and grew up normally. She retained all the memories of this other life, down to her own [[{{Squick}} birth]]. It's so far caused her as much angst as relief.

* Somehow it got a page quote but wasn't mentioned here: Sharon "Athena" Valerii still had all of the memories of Sharon "Boomer" Valerii up to a certain point in ''{{Battlestar Galactica}}''. This goes true for other Cylon models as well, but the Eights are the only model who we have seen sharing memories. Another Eight does it again in 'The Hub'.

* Immortals in ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt inherit the memories]] of any and every immortal that they kill by "devouring" them. How much they affect you depends on the person -- [[IdiotHero Firo]] copes with having the memories of a three hundred-year-old MadScientist and eighteen of his victims by simply insisting [[DumbIsGood he's too dumb to remember or make sense of any of it]], [[spoiler:although he admits to Maiza several years later that he's terrified of the possibility that Szilard's sadistic tenancies might surface in his own personality]]. Czeslaw, on the other hand, [[BreakTheCutie doesn't handle]] [[CreepyChild it quite]] [[CrazySurvivalist so well...]]

* Immortals in ''Literature/{{Baccano}}!'' [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt inherit the memories]] of any and every immortal that they kill by "devouring" them. How much they affect you depends on the person -- [[IdiotHero Firo]] copes with having the memories of a three hundred-year-old MadScientist and eighteen of his victims by simply insisting [[DumbIsGood he's too dumb to remember or make sense of any of it]], [[spoiler:although he admits to Maiza several years later that he's terrified of the possibility that Szilard's sadistic tenancies might surface in his own personality]]. Czeslaw, on the other hand, [[BreakTheCutie doesn't handle]] [[CreepyChild it quite]] [[CrazySurvivalist so well...]]

* In the Buffyverse, potential Slayers have a subconscious memory of the actions of past Slayers. While this usually only manifests through bizarre, monster-filled dreams, in the case of Dana (in the ''{{Angel}}'' episode ''Damage'') the memories combined with her already fragile psyche to send her on a killing spree.
** Another example comes from the [[BuffytheVampireSlayer Buffy]] episode ''Halloween''; Xander is magically transformed into a soldier, giving him memories of various military tactics and operational rules that come in useful in ''Innocence'' and ''Graduation Day''.

* Immortals in ''Literature/{{Baccano}}!'' [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt inherit the memories]] of any and every immortal that they kill by "devouring" them. How much they affect you depends on the person -- [[IdiotHero Firo]] copes with having the memories of a three hundred-year-old MadScientist and eighteen of his victims by simply insisting [[DumbIsGood he's too dumb to remember or make sense of any of it]], [[spoiler:although he admits to Maiza several years later that he's terrified of the possibility that Szilard's sadistic tenancies might surface in his own personality]]. [[CuteShotaroBoy Czeslaw]], on the other hand, [[BreakTheCutie doesn't handle]] [[CreepyChild it quite]] [[CrazySurvivalist so well...]]

* The Trill in "StarTrek" are small slug like creatures that can bond to a host body, and when the body dies it is implanted in a new one, giving it all the memories and experiences of the previous hosts.

* ''ElGoonishShive'': Ellen is an OppositeSexClone of another character, with all of his memories. Then [[MysteriousWaif Nioi]] showed up. Nioi claimed that since Ellen's [[OurSoulsAreDifferent soul]] was barely a couple months old, while her body and mind are as old as she feels she is (about 17), she'll end up going insane. So Nioi "offers"[[hottip:*:she doesn't actually wait for Ellen to agree]] to "fix" the problem. For the next few weeks, when she slept, Ellen dreamt of life in another world, where she was born a girl (not a clone of a guy) and grew up normally. She retained all the memories of this other life, down to her own [[{{Squick}} birth]]. It's so far caused her as much angst as relief.

* In the webcomic ''{{Inverloch}}'', Neirran absorbs the mind of another mage who was dying. This gives her all his memories and access to all the spells he knew.

* Immortals in ''{{Baccano}}!'' [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt inherit the memories]] of any and every immortal that they kill by "devouring" them. How much they affect you depends on the person -- [[IdiotHero Firo]] copes with having the memories of a three hundred-year-old MadScientist and eighteen of his victims by simply insisting [[DumbIsGood he's too dumb to remember or make sense of any of it]], [[spoiler:although he admits to Maiza several years later that he's terrified of the possibility that Szilard's sadistic tenancies might surface in his own personality]]. [[CuteShotaroBoy Czeslaw]], on the other hand, [[BreakTheCutie doesn't handle]] [[CreepyChild it quite]] [[CrazySurvivalist so well...]]

* This is how the legacy of the Great Ten's Accomplished Perfect Physician works. Each new holder of the title inherits the collective memories of their predecessors; the current one is the seventeenth, giving him sixteen lifetimes of experience to draw on.

* In ''Game/{{Baroque}}'', the brothers "Left" and "Right" retain each other's memories when each of them die to replace each other. The kicker: For quite a bit of the game, they don't know the other exists. That wacky Amnesia.

* Used by Gartlant (Yeah, I don't get the name either) in ''SaberMarionetteJ''. Each ''[[ThoseWackyNazis fuhrer]]'' gets the memories of his predecessors impressed on him by a machine. It's not a pleasant process, and turned the current Faust from a normal kid to a vicious bastard who mistreated Tiger, Panther, and Luchs/Lynx from that day forward.

** Well, consider that while Firo has the memories of a bunch of strangers running through him, Czes picked up the ghost memory of his beloved guardian, who spent upwards of 200 years gleefully torturing the kid.

* In Fringe, this is done to [[spoiler:Olivia to convince her that she is her alternate universe counterpart.]]

** Another example comes from the [[BuffytheVampireSlayer Buffy]] episode ''Halloween''; Xander is magically transformed into a soldier, giving him memories of various military tactics and operational rules that come in useful in ''Innocence'' and ''Graduation Day''.

* ''{{Bioshock}}'' and ''[[SystemShock System Shock 2]]'' have these as a result of each games AppliedPhlebotinum. While walking along, your character will occasionally see ghosts acting out what usually turn out to be thier last moments.

* In E.E. "Doc" Smith's ''The Skylark of Space'', the heroes befriend an alien race that builds mind-reading machines. They use one of these machines to learn each others' languages. Later, they use one on the brain of a ''dead'' enemy to learn his secrets, effectively gaining the memories of the dead person.

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