Memory As Mental Time Travel

At Stanford University's mediaX conference, cognitive neuroscientist Anthony Wagner describes how our memory works like time travel, allowing us to access the past in order to inform our decisions and behavior.

[thomasleongeorgerobertglad]

My question is this can you go back to live in a memory (as in sending your present day consciousness with all your memories and lessons learned from your past) and use that to change the timeline alter things, meet people before you in your original timeline actually met them, etc

[packofwolves]

Someone has watched The Butterfly Effect one too many times