Engram (Dianetics)
Scientology's mental image of an unconscious past traumatic event / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Engram (Dianetics)?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS
An engram, as used in Dianetics and Scientology, is a detailed mental image or memory of a traumatic event from the past that occurred when an individual was partially or fully unconscious. It is considered to be pseudoscientific[1][2] and is different from the meaning of "engram" in cognitive psychology.[3] According to Dianetics and Scientology, from conception onwards, whenever something painful happens while the "analytic mind" is unconscious, engrams are supposedly being recorded and stored in an area of the mind Scientology calls the "reactive mind".[4][5]
This article is about the concept of the engram in Dianetics and Scientology. For other uses, see Engram (disambiguation).