A group of sleeping test mice had false memories implanted, and their waking behavior was influenced as a result.

If you could have your bad memories replaced by ones filled with happy, thrilling times that you had actually never experienced, would you?

A group of test mice had happy memories created for them, and it appears to have worked out well for them.

When the lab animals awoke, they were able to remember where a reward was stashed, even though they’d never seen or otherwise encountered the area before.

That feat was the work of neuroscientists based in Paris, who manipulated the mice’s brain cells that are associated with