Before I go to Sleep Everyday a woman wakes up to discover that she knows nothing about where she is, or who the person is that is lying next to her. Just ten years prior, Christine Lucas, experienced a horrific assault, this woman, Christine, cannot remember anything about her life, other than she is a twenty something year old woman with her whole life ahead of her. In reality, Christine, is forty seven, and almost half of her life has disappeared. Christine’s neuropsychologist, Dr. Nash, tries to assist her reclaiming some of her memories, as well as remembering the night she was nearly killed, which would help lead them to the attacker. He encourages her to keep a video diary, and each day he calls her to remind her to watch it so that …show more content…
Christine did not understand who she was looking at as she thought that she was a young, vibrant, twenty something year old woman with her whole ahead of her. Then, Christine would see the pictures placed on the wall in the bathroom, by her husband. These pictures gave Christine reassurance that she was not dreaming, but she could not remember the details of her life. The only information that Christine could remember was from the earlier years of her life. She was not able to remember being married, or giving birth to her son Adam. As Christine would wake up every morning she would not remember the things that she had learned the day prior from her video journal. “The inability to store new information long-term is named anterograde amnesia and the inability to recall stored information is termed retrograde amnesia. Retrograde memory impairment usually follows Ribot's law of regression5 --ie, recent memories are more affected than earlier ones.” (Markowitsch, pg1424). Christine suffered from both of these as she could not remember her life of the last twenty years, and she could not remember the new things that she learned each day about