Have you ever thought that every person has the memory of his ancestors, that is, what was inherent in his family? In scientific words this is called “genetic memory”.
Genetically primary is memory, the carrier of which in the human body is nucleic acids that ensure stability in the storage of information.
It is located deep in the subconscious of every person, in the area of sensations. Sometimes you can feel it. Genetically, primary memory makes itself felt in the form of impressions, unclear images. So, in most cases, a child in the mother’s womb sees dreams, which are a manifestation of the memory of his family. As a result of watching such dreams, the child’s brain, as if watching, learns. After birth, the baby is endowed with all the necessary knowledge. Remember even the fact that babies are good swimmers from birth, but soon lose this skill. Until the age of 2, children retain this genetic memory.
It is difficult for adults to see this type of memory because consciousness prevents this; it seeks to protect us, our psyche from split personality.
Genetic memory was studied by Carl Jung and psychology classified it as part of the “collective unconscious.” It was believed that it does not depend on the individual’s experience. This memory stores many original images, called by Jung as "". He believed that the experience of each person is not erased after his death, but rather accumulates in genetic memory.
Human genetic memory - examples
The “right of the first night” has always been valued; the wife had to be “pure” and... This hides not only morality, but also biological meaning. After all, there is a genetic memory of the uterus. This indicates that the child will have predominant features similar to the partner of his mother, who she had for the first time. Therefore, it is not in vain that chastity has been around for centuries 
is valued above all else.
A woman’s genetic memory is also manifested in the habits of a modern woman, in her appearance. A woman, as the keeper of the hearth, had to do several things at the same time (which is very similar to women in our time): they looked after children, picked berries and at the same time watched so that enemies would not attack. By the way, it’s not for nothing that many nations consider a long neck beautiful. In ancient times, it was valuable because it was easier for such a woman to escape from danger.
Each person has this unusual memory and it is worth remembering that our life experiences will be passed on from generation to generation.
Not many people think about what genetic memory is and what it stores in itself. Even fewer people are even aware of its presence in the subconscious. Let's see what is meant by the term “human genetic memory.”
Turning to science for answers, you can find a definition that human genetic memory is memory (experience, memories) that stores all the information stored by former carriers. This is information that could be passed on from generation to generation in a person’s family and manifest itself in the form of unclear images. Genetic memory can also be understood as the ability of a person’s subconscious to save data that could not be acquired by the individual during his life.
Basic terms and concepts
Scientifically speaking, genetic memory is nothing more than a set of reactions determined by heredity and transmitted to an individual through genes. At the same time, the concept of memory is used to denote a subject’s propensity encoded in genes for certain types of behavior, which he can implement unconsciously in everyday life.
“Memory of the race” (biological, genetic or racial memory) is located in the depths of the nervous structures of the human brain and appears only occasionally. A person can feel it, for example, when he is visited by some vague pictures, incomprehensible sensations or emotions.
By learning while watching dreams, a child is able to master certain skills. Suffice it to recall the cases when recently born children demonstrate their ability to float on water. Do you think they were taught to swim? No. The acquisition of this skill by newborns is fully explained by the theory of the presence of gene memory in the subconscious. And the most surprising thing is that without additional support and development, this skill will be lost over time.
Over the course of many years of research and experiments, scientists have found that infants are capable of using hereditary gene memory up to 2 years of age. Subsequently, some memories and images gradually fade into the background, and some disappear altogether. As the child grows up and acquires new knowledge, the ancestral memory becomes practically closed to him.
As a rule, genetic memory manifests itself in conditions of emotional outbursts, when a person acts unconsciously, as well as during sleep. But the manifestation of gene memory can also be stimulated artificially by putting the subject into a trance state or by “turning off” his consciousness. In other cases, a similar phenomenon occurs if the human subconscious needs to reproduce encoded data hidden in genes and received “inherited” from previous generations.
From the history
The definition of genetic memory in psychology first appeared in the context of the doctrine of the “collective unconscious” by psychiatrist Carl Jung. In his opinion, “family memory” does not depend on the experience and feelings that an individual acquires and experiences in real time. It preserves the primary images that Carl Jung called "".
In psychology, this term refers to the experience and memories of each individual situation that a person has experienced during his life. And according to Jung’s theory, such information is not erased from memory, but, on the contrary, accumulates in genes and is passed on to the next carrier.
Moments and situations experienced again and again by an individual will be formed in his mind as a form of certain behavior without meaning, and not as an image filled with meaning. It turns out that archetypes are the result of the functioning of genetics, and not evidence of cultural heritage. Thus, the experience and knowledge acquired during a person’s life will be transferred at the genetic level to the next generation in the form of images and reactions that will influence their carrier through the subconscious.
The concept of genetic memory is also often used by parapsychologists as part of the method of previous life regression, although they deny the theory that such human abilities can be considered valid. By the way, the same term can be found in various fields of culture (cinema, literature). In these areas it is usually used to refer to reincarnation and rebirth of souls.
Facts or myths
Answering the question of whether genetic memory exists, it is enough to give examples that are also relevant for the modern world:
This is confirmed by one of the experiments of the psychic Valery Avdeev. Psychological experience, presented in the form of a show that was once demonstrated by the famous psychic in Novosibirsk, allowed many to realize the importance of gene memory.
Avdeev, having immersed the subject in a state of hypnosis, asked him to return to childhood, and then move on to the period before his conception. Surprisingly, the man on stage began to move, imitating the activities of a peasant from the last century. After some time, Avdeev asked a person in a hypnotic state to “dive” even deeper into his subconscious and show what happened to him in prehistoric times. A man under hypnosis, dropping to all fours, reproduced the stance of a wolf, while howling very realistically.
2. Another proof of the existence of gene memory is the experiment with honey. Surprisingly, this product can also have its own memories. If you drop some honey on a saucer and then add a drop of spring water to it, dissolving it will reveal an unusual pattern of perfectly smooth and identical hexagons on the surface. Such a picture will be very reminiscent of the honeycombs in a hive with their exact location. Consequently, even food products are capable of storing encoded information.
There are similar examples in almost every scientific field. However, the existence of gene memory is most clearly demonstrated by experiments conducted by psychotherapists, doctors, as well as people who practice meditation and use audio training for self-knowledge. Author: Elena Suvorova
Genetic memory is understood as the ability to “remember” something that cannot be remembered, something that was not in direct life experience, in the everyday practice of an individual.
(p. 269). It is also called “memory of ancestors”, “memory of the Family”, etc.The first thing that can be said about this phenomenon is that genetic memory is located somewhere in the margins of memory, in the far corners of the subconscious, in the sphere of sensations. It sometimes emerges from the subconscious and evokes unclear images, impressions and sensations.
Secondly, today it is already known that during pregnancy, the fetus in the womb dreams about 60% of the time. From the point of view of S.P. Rastorguev, author of the book “Information War,” it is genetic memory that manifests itself, and the brain views it and learns. “The initial void that the embryo in the mother’s womb is destined to fill is supplied with a genetic program containing the lives already lived by the ancestors” (p. 28). Thanks to science, today we know that the human embryo in the mother’s womb, in the process of maturation, going through the entire cycle of evolutionary development - from a single-celled organism to a baby, “briefly recalls its entire history, as the history of the development of a living being.” As a result, a newborn child retains a genetic memory recorded by all his historical ancestors. For example, a newborn has the ability to float on its own. This ability to swim is lost after a month. Those. children are born with a full arsenal of knowledge, carefully preserved by centuries of evolution in genetic memory. And until the age of 2, the child retains sound, visual, and tactile genetic memory. Unfortunately, as a child grows and learns, access to genetic memory decreases.
That is, being present in our psyche, genetic memory data is usually not available to us for conscious comprehension. Because our consciousness actively counteracts the manifestation of this memory, trying to protect the psyche from “split personality.” But genetic memory can manifest itself during sleep or a state of altered consciousness (hypnosis, trance, meditation), when control of consciousness is weakened. Those. under certain conditions, the brain is able to “pull out” this information.
Thirdly, we note that genetic memory is built into the structures of the “collective unconscious”. Psychologist Carl Jung considered the “collective unconscious” as a deep level of the psyche, independent of personal experience, and inherent in every person. The collective unconscious stores many primary, primordial images, which he called archetypes. They are not so much memories, but rather predispositions and potentialities. According to Jung: “There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition imprinted these experiences in our mental makeup, not in the form of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content (certain matrices - authors’ note), representing only the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.” (16, p. 129). Moreover, archetypes are not transmitted through culture, Jung stated, but are inherited, i.e. transmitted genetically. Thus, Jung believed that the experience of an individual is not lost, but is inherited from generation to generation, preserved in the distant recesses of the brain, that images and impressions from ancestors are transmitted to a person through the subconscious.