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Memory is a major theme in [[Serial Experiments Lain]]. [[Lain]] has the ability to affect [[reality]] through manipulation of people's memories, once during [[Layer 08]] and most notably during the [[reset]].

Memory is a major theme in [[Serial Experiments Lain]]. [[Lain Iwakura]] has the ability to affect [[reality]] through manipulation of people's memories, once during [[Layer 08]] and most notably during the [[reset]].

A popular quote by [[Lain]] about memory is as follows:

A popular quote by Lain about memory is as follows:

  A memory is only a record. You just have to rewrite that record.

  A memory is only a record. You just have to rewrite that record.

There is no way of knowing precisely what happened, as we only have an unreliable account to go by. This passage, therefore, shows how easily faulty memory can complicate the truth and one's perception of reality.

There is no way of knowing precisely what happened, as we only have an unreliable account to go by. This passage, therefore, shows how easily faulty memory can complicate the truth and one's perception of reality.

In the [[Layer 13|final episode]], [[Iwakura Yasuo|Yasuo]] makes a final reference to [[wikipedia:Madeleine (cake)#Literary reference|Proust]]'s ''In Search of Lost Time'' when he says that he and Lain should have some tea with madeleines. The book uses madeleines to contrast voluntary and involuntary memory.

In the [[Layer 13|final episode]], [[Yasuo Iwakura]] makes a final reference to [[wikipedia:Madeleine (cake)#Literary reference|Proust]]'s ''In Search of Lost Time'' when he says that he and Lain should have some tea with madeleines. The book uses madeleines to contrast voluntary and involuntary memory.

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