{"id":290409,"date":"2023-05-03T14:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=290409"},"modified":"2023-05-07T23:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T04:26:51","slug":"nicolas-cage-memories-womb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nicolas-cage-memories-womb\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Nicolas Cage says he thinks he has memories of being in the womb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>While appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, actor Nicolas Cage made a comment that perhaps unintentionally indicated he is aware that he was himself \u2014 a unique human being \u2014 while he was still in his mother&#8217;s womb. And Colbert, a pro-abortion Catholic, seemed to agree.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2023\/05\/02\/nicolas-cage-unwittingly-makes-huge-pro-life-case-says-his-first-memory-was-in-utero\/\">asked<\/a> Cage, &#8220;What is your earliest memory?&#8221; To which Cage responded:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I don&#8217;t remember. Let me think. Listen, I know this sounds really far out and I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s real or not, but sometimes I think I can go all the way back to in utero and feeling like I could, like see faces in the dark or something.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I know that sounds powerfully abstract, but that somehow seems like maybe it happened.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Colbert asked, &#8220;Did these faces in the dark, were other people in there with you? Were these things that your prenatal mind was conjuring?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cyXr1vrT8G0\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cage responded, &#8220;Now that I am no longer in utero, I would have to imagine it was perhaps vocal vibrations resonating to me in that stage. That&#8217;s going way back. So I don&#8217;t know. But that comes to mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colbert replied, &#8220;I buy it. I buy it. I do. You&#8217;re Nic Cage. Who am I to say you don&#8217;t remember being in utero?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0163638313001185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> in the journal Infant Behavior &amp; Development revealed that humans begin to form memories and learn while in the womb. The study found that when preborn children were introduced to a passage read aloud by their mothers beginning at 28 weeks, they showed evidence of having learned and remembered the passage by week 34.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S-lQOooYAs8\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/5585-fetuses-memories.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>\u00a0published in the journal Child Development found that short-term memory is likely present in preborn children by at least 30 weeks of age. The researchers found that at 30 weeks, preborn children use a form of learning and memory called habituation, in which they become used to a sound and have a &#8220;memory&#8221; of it so that it no longer startles them after the first few times. They also found that at 34 weeks, the preborn child is able to &#8220;store information and retrieve it four weeks later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Further studies must be carried out to determine when exactly preborn children first begin to remember stimuli.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/incredible-truth-preborn-hear-see-do\/\">Read more here<\/a> about how preborn children see, hear, and move.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i><strong>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? Click here to start saving lives 365 days a year.<\/strong><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, actor Nicolas Cage made a comment that perhaps unintentionally indicated he is aware that he was himself \u2014 a unique human being \u2014 while he was still in his mother&#8217;s womb. And Colbert, a pro-abortion Catholic, seemed to agree. 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