Not only do I agree with this, but in the YnM Universe as it exists in my brain, if you sit down with Muraki under the right conditions, he'll tell you that there's good science on this, predicting precisely this result. And then he'll tell you about the clinical value of memory management in certain classes of trauma, and add ruefully that it's a pity he can only publish the otherwise-excellent paper about it in the Journal of Irreproducible Results.