>You undergo memory treatment, and now your mother who you see once a week is real as far as you know, but really she's an actor
Sounds like a sort of reverse Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; things could get really awkward and confusing when you end up having partial memories.
But also, possibly a brilliant way to fund nursing homes/increase visitation.
Memories are modified on retrieval and colored by current emotional state and ideas (and vice versa :)). So they're not even partial. They're messy re-imaginations of past re-imaginations.
Look up the movie _Synecdoche_, where a theater production about the producing of a theater production (about... (about... )...) starts recursively eating real life.
Sounds like a sort of reverse Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; things could get really awkward and confusing when you end up having partial memories.
But also, possibly a brilliant way to fund nursing homes/increase visitation.