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In fiction, some creatures are somehow able to obtain the memories of other beings by consuming their grey matter. The possibility of this in real life is unlikely, most evidence suggests that memories are "stored" in the connections between brain cells, which would be destroyed in the process of eating a brain usually. Though there are some hypotheses that memory is at least partially stored as chemicals inside the cells, which might survive something's digestive processes.
SubTrope of CannibalismSuperpower and BrainFood. SisterTrope of GeneticMemory, where the memories are instead recorded in the ''[[ArtMajorBiology genes]]''. Compare YouAreWhoYouEat.
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* Yoma in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' normally ate human entrails but could also devour a person's brain to absorb their memories and impersonate them. The impersonation was so convincing that a number of ignorant villagers believe that Yoma are contagious and cast out certain characters who had close contact with them.
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* ''Film/TheThing1982''. A Thing can do this when it consumes a human being and converts it into a Thing. The new Thing has all of the memories of the original person.
* The Brain Bug in ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' was believed to do this. (We know it ate brains, but the reason was only theorized.)
* In ''Film/WarmBodies'', zombies hunger for brains because they experience the memories when they do, which is the closest they can come now to feeling alive. [[spoiler:Besides feeling love, that is.]]
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* Creator/DeanKoontz's ''{{Literature/Phantoms}}''. A gigantic protoplasmic monster consumes human beings and absorbs their memories from their brains.
* Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Firefly''. A small protoplasmic monster dissolves and absorbs the interior of people's bodies. It gains their memories and personality from their brains.
* In ''Literature/TheRunelords'', Reavers share a racial memory by eating the brains of their dead. At one point, a child eats a Reaver brain and gains the same benefit, providing an insight into their planning and purpose.
* ''Literature/SpotsTheSpaceMarine'': Fiddlers (humanity's allies) absorb the memories of their predecessors by consuming them alive. The Crabs (enemies) do the same and attempt to do so to captured human marines, though the Fiddler liason who reveals this bit of information believes that their biology is incompatible.
* In ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun'', eating an alzabo gland extract gives its consumer memories of whoever was eaten by that alzabo.
* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' original series novel ''Dreams of the Raven'' has the titular Raven aliens able to gain access to their victims' knowledge and memories (to the point of being able to vocally imitate them perfectly) by eating their brains.
* In ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'', Valkyrie once interrogated a prisoner by making him think that her friend [[LadyOfWar Tanith Low]] had the power to do this, and would do so if he refused to talk.
* In the Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures novel ''Venusian Lullaby'', the native intelligent race of Venus can do this, and sharing out the deceased's brain is an important part of their funeral customs.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K''
** Some SpaceMarines can do this, depending on canon.
** Tyranids, most infamously lictors ( Tyranid StealthyColossus scouts) but anything with feeder tendrils might show this ability. This is pretty much their only way of gathering intel, as they never talk with their food.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has the Eaters of the Dead, a small cult of Silent Strider werewolves who've discovered a magic rite that lets them absorb memories and skills from other supernaturals by eating their brains. Habitual use of this rite has turned them into paranoid, blood-crazed serial killers, and quite wrecked their sanity. Their original goals were to use the rite ''temporarily'' until they found a better way to permanently regain all that their tribe had lost. But at this point they just wander around looking for other supernatural creatures to murder -- the older, the better.
* In ''TabletopGame/MyriadSong'' the carnivorous plants known as Morphir can be fed the brains of sentient animals and they will grow buds that when smoked as a drug cause hallucinations of the brain-donor's memories. The brains of ''sapient'' animals (i.e. humans) produce particularly strong buds, and gradually make the Morphir plant itself intelligent, and mobile, and playable as characters. Not all Morphir characters can suck out people's brains and access their memories, but it's not hard for them to take the abilities as Gifts.
* In ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' Nymphs, the insect analogues used for environmental maintenance on terraformed Mars and Venus, were designed to gain memories from eating each others' brains to exchange information between colonies and preserve maintenance directives over many generations. 40 years ago some scientist thought it would be a good idea to create a sapient Nymph. It ate him.
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* In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', the Zombie Master [[PrestigeClass Special Challenge Path]] uses "Hunter brains" to level up their Skill Trees. The use message for "Good brain" is "Oh, man is that ''Gravity's Rainbow?'' Oh, just, like, the first third. Still, though!" Decent brains give the urge to go watch TV (but not reality TV, so it's OK), and Crappy brains "...smell of illiteracy and superstition."
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has Mercer and Heller do eat entire people, including their brains, in order to assimilate their memories in order to understand a Web Of Intrigue about a grand conspiracy behind Gentek.
* In ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' Hiver princesses and queens can eat the brains of their deceased subjects and imprint them on new embryos. Allowing a form of reincarnation, with the possibility of moving up in the HiveCasteSystem.
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-->'''Burns:''' Oh pish, when I was in Africa I had my skull cracked open by cannibals and I'm still kicking.\\
'''Smithers:''' Sir, that was your partner, you betrayed him ''to'' the cannibals.\\
'''Burns:''' Oh right, I have his memories because I ate his brain.
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SubTrope of CannibalismSuperpower and BrainFood. SisterTrope of GeneticMemory, where the memories are instead recorded in the ''[[ArtMajorBiology genes]]''. Compare YouAreWhoYouEat.
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* Yoma in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' normally ate human entrails but could also devour a person's brain to absorb their memories and impersonate them. The impersonation was so convincing that a number of ignorant villagers believe that Yoma are contagious and cast out certain characters who had close contact with them.
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* There's at least one version of the Creator/DCComics SuperVillain Grodd who did this.
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* ''Film/TheThing1982''. A Thing can do this when it consumes a human being and converts it into a Thing. The new Thing has all of the memories of the original person.
* The Brain Bug in ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' was believed to do this. (We know it ate brains, but the reason was only theorized.)
* In ''Film/WarmBodies'', zombies hunger for brains because they experience the memories when they do, which is the closest they can come now to feeling alive. [[spoiler:Besides feeling love, that is.]]
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* Creator/DeanKoontz's ''{{Literature/Phantoms}}''. A gigantic protoplasmic monster consumes human beings and absorbs their memories from their brains.
* Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Firefly''. A small protoplasmic monster dissolves and absorbs the interior of people's bodies. It gains their memories and personality from their brains.
* In ''Literature/TheRunelords'', Reavers share a racial memory by eating the brains of their dead. At one point, a child eats a Reaver brain and gains the same benefit, providing an insight into their planning and purpose.
* ''Literature/SpotsTheSpaceMarine'': Fiddlers (humanity's allies) absorb the memories of their predecessors by consuming them alive. The Crabs (enemies) do the same and attempt to do so to captured human marines, though the Fiddler liason who reveals this bit of information believes that their biology is incompatible.
* In ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun'', eating an alzabo gland extract gives its consumer memories of whoever was eaten by that alzabo.
* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' original series novel ''Dreams of the Raven'' has the titular Raven aliens able to gain access to their victims' knowledge and memories (to the point of being able to vocally imitate them perfectly) by eating their brains.
* In ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'', Valkyrie once interrogated a prisoner by making him think that her friend [[LadyOfWar Tanith Low]] had the power to do this, and would do so if he refused to talk.
* In the Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures novel ''Venusian Lullaby'', the native intelligent race of Venus can do this, and sharing out the deceased's brain is an important part of their funeral customs.
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* Liv of ''Series/{{iZombie}}'' is a zombie who stays civilized and intelligent by eating the brains of corpses that come into the morgue where she works. She also helps the police by eating murder victims and picking up bits of their memories and skills.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has the Illithids (aka Mind Flayers) who do this. They gain memories, skills, and even class levels by doing so.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K''
** Some SpaceMarines can do this, depending on canon.
** Tyranids, most infamously lictors ( Tyranid StealthyColossus scouts) but anything with feeder tendrils might show this ability. This is pretty much their only way of gathering intel, as they never talk with their food.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has the Eaters of the Dead, a small cult of Silent Strider werewolves who've discovered a magic rite that lets them absorb memories and skills from other supernaturals by eating their brains. Habitual use of this rite has turned them into paranoid, blood-crazed serial killers, and quite wrecked their sanity. Their original goals were to use the rite ''temporarily'' until they found a better way to permanently regain all that their tribe had lost. But at this point they just wander around looking for other supernatural creatures to murder -- the older, the better.
* In ''TabletopGame/MyriadSong'' the carnivorous plants known as Morphir can be fed the brains of sentient animals and they will grow buds that when smoked as a drug cause hallucinations of the brain-donor's memories. The brains of ''sapient'' animals (i.e. humans) produce particularly strong buds, and gradually make the Morphir plant itself intelligent, and mobile, and playable as characters. Not all Morphir characters can suck out people's brains and access their memories, but it's not hard for them to take the abilities as Gifts.
* In ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' Nymphs, the insect analogues used for environmental maintenance on terraformed Mars and Venus, were designed to gain memories from eating each others' brains to exchange information between colonies and preserve maintenance directives over many generations. 40 years ago some scientist thought it would be a good idea to create a sapient Nymph. It ate him.
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* In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', the Zombie Master [[PrestigeClass Special Challenge Path]] uses "Hunter brains" to level up their Skill Trees. The use message for "Good brain" is "Oh, man is that ''Gravity's Rainbow?'' Oh, just, like, the first third. Still, though!" Decent brains give the urge to go watch TV (but not reality TV, so it's OK), and Crappy brains "...smell of illiteracy and superstition."
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has Mercer and Heller do eat entire people, including their brains, in order to assimilate their memories in order to understand a Web Of Intrigue about a grand conspiracy behind Gentek.
* In ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' Hiver princesses and queens can eat the brains of their deceased subjects and imprint them on new embryos. Allowing a form of reincarnation, with the possibility of moving up in the HiveCasteSystem.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E20TheSpyWhoLearnedMe The Spy Who Learned Me]]"
-->'''Burns:''' Oh pish, when I was in Africa I had my skull cracked open by cannibals and I'm still kicking.\\
'''Smithers:''' Sir, that was your partner, you betrayed him ''to'' the cannibals.\\
'''Burns:''' Oh right, I have his memories because I ate his brain.
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