They wouldn't tell me my name when I woke up, because they said that would corrupt the experiment. Instead, they told me my neutral reference: Miss Scarlet. Then they sat me down in a room with a bright ceiling light, a single table, two chairs, and a video camera. "Do you remember your name?" said the questioner. "No," I said. "Do you remember where you were born?" "No." "Do you remember your birthday?" "I don't remember anything." "Please answer the question with a yes or no." "No, I don't remember my birthday." The questions continued for some time, a litany of memory loss, until the questioner put down her clipboard on the table and smiled. "Well, Miss Scarlet, now that that's out of the way and we have a baseline, I'd like to welcome you." "Does that mean you're going to tell me where I am?" I asked.
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