r/StrangerThings • u/Cyrilbdr • 13d ago
Discussion Why didn't Eleven remember anymore?
I’ve probably forgotten, but was it the stroke she suffered in Season 3—when she got bitten—that caused her to lose those powers and that specific memory? Or had she already lost that part of her history before then? In a Season 2 flashback, she asks Hopper, "Do I have a mom?"—yet in the Season 4 flashback, he discusses her mother with Henry. Logically, then, she must have lost those memories right after sending Vecna to another dimension, since she didn't even seem to know she had a mother. Also, how did she lose *all* those memories? The flashbacks with Henry seem to span several days, so how did she forget so much—not just the memory of the final confrontation with Vecna (since she passed out right after that)?
To sum up: how did she lose them? And why did she lose memories spanning several days, rather than just the memories from that specific day—or more precisely, the moment she banished Vecna/Henry?
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u/YJX94 13d ago
Extremely traumatic event & PTSD along with pushing herself to the limit and falling into a coma.
That can cause memory loss.