The Forgetting Field

TW-187 is fenced with perimeter signs citing agricultural hazard. Personnel are not to cross the field under any circumstances. Research into which memory is selected has been attempted via pre-briefed subjects who reported specific memories in advance — the field appears to select the memory the subject would most have chosen to keep.

TW-187 is an agricultural field in a rural area where anyone who crosses it forgets one specific memory — always a single, complete, emotionally significant memory. The loss is permanent. The memory cannot be recovered by any means. There is no physical sensation accompanying the loss; subjects only discover it when they later reach for the memory and find it absent. The field is 400m across. Crossing it takes approximately 6 minutes.

TW-187 was identified when a farmer who had farmed adjacent land for 40 years reported that his wife could not remember their wedding. The wedding had taken place in the adjacent farmhouse. The path from the house to the farm crossed the field.

No incident reports on file.