YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS !!!!! But I'm a scientist (MS - Chemist) who never believed in dissociative amnesia (a.k.a. repressed memory) until it has happened to me. I was watching a crime show where the only survivor of a serial killer-rapist was being interviewed, and she said, "I wasn't there during the actual assault, I don't know where (my mind) was, but I wasn't there, and I've never returned. I haven't any memory at all of what happened." To myself I said, "Damn I wonder what that's like?" Be careful what you wish for . . .