Future Memories

How trauma, memory and time shape the lives we think we're choosing.

Some memories don't come from the past.

When Mark Mostaed was eight years old, a stranger made of blue light appeared in his bedroom in rural Ohio. Leaving him with a memory that never let him go.

Twenty-five years later — standing in the wreckage of a life he had built by forgetting — he finally began to understand who that visitor was.

Future Memories is a strange but true story of how memory, the body and time collide into what we call life.

Moving from a psychic's prophecy come true to heartbreak on a hypnotherapist's couch in West Hollywood, from ancient timelines to the post-pandemic jungles of Tulum — asking one question the whole way down:

If the past writes our personality, how do we choose our future?

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