Memory and Identity Writing Prompts

You wake up as your 5yr old self. Everything around you is as it was when you were 5, but you have all your knowledge of the next 15-75 years. It is your "first" day at school, and you must convince everyone, for the next 15-75 years, you really are 5...

Your hands shake as you approach the final battle. Everyone is confident you'll win since they believe you're the Chosen One. What they don't know is the "Chosen One" was your older brother, and you've been using his name and identity ever since he died when you were 14

One moment you are 16 years old, the next you’re 82. Now everyone thinks you have dementia because you “forgot” the last 66 years.

Everyone suddenly remembers their past lives. You’re doing everything you can to lie about who you were before. “just a common life, honestly boring.”- probably the biggest lie of the century.

You give the weird kid from school a chance, many years later you both are married on the couch watching a news broadcast. The broadcast is about a young boy who vanished with no trace. What struck you as odd was that the boy looks identical to your husband when you met all those years ago.

Whenever you die you resurrect on the last day on which you could possibly have prevented your death with all your memories. Usually it only takes you back a few days, a couple of weeks in extreme cases. Today you died and awoke decades in the past.

After your interrogators used a truth serum to get you to talk, you discover you can answer questions you never knew you had the answers to. (No one responded to it originally 5y’s ago)

"dude... give her space. For you it's been 30 years. You've had time to grieve and accept you lost your sister. For her though.... she just learned she's be gone for three decades and hasn't aged a day. You've got your teenage sister back but to her.... to her your a 45 year old stranger"

You are The Evil King, and you are looking down at the body of your most fearsome and deadly fighter; all you can see is the orphaned baby girl you found all those years ago in the remains of a destroyed village.

When your university announces they’ll be burying a time capsule for a century, you decide to include a USB with an extremely detailed, high resolution copy of your brain, for fun. The last thing you remember is going into the MRI machine before you wake up & are told a century has passed.

Your name, your face are everywhere! From massive global celebrations, to tons of fan mail, everyone is treating you like the biggest hero-celebrity in the history of the world. There's just one tiny issue- you haven't the foggiest idea why.

You exist, despite no country having a record of either your birth or your residence and none claiming you as their citizen, everyone forgetting you when they stop interacting with you and you even disappearing from photos and videos the moment they are taken. It is a rather interesting life.

Since you turned 18, you woke up every morning in the body of a different person. Every day you lived the life of another random person. For the first time in years, you wake up in your own, original body

You joined the heroes party with the sole intention of inevitably betraying them, however you were cut down before you could inact your dastardly plan. Now as a ghost eternally tied to them, you don't know how to feel when you learn that the hero remembers you as their closest friend...

After your entire family was killed by the villain, your older sibling set out to avenge them. They left you behind, promising they would return once they were successful. Although they were victorious, the person that returned home was no longer your sibling, but a complete stranger.

There is a secret light switch in your room that switches your life between male and female. Your lesbian/bisexual roommate has found it and likes to take advantage of it

The world has ended, not with a bang, but with a whisper. The last surviving humans gather around a dying fire, each sharing their most precious memory.

You've fallen in love with a character in your dreams. The only thing is, you forget they exist while you're awake. You have a whole life with another family outside of the dream realm, but you remember everything when you enter back into your dreams.

No gods, no magic, monsters, or aliens. Write the story of your death.

You aren’t human, but you’re very good at pretending that you are. Life is good, right up until the day someone figures out what you really are.

You wake up one morning as the opposite gender you are now and are the only one who remembers your previous life, all your I.D.s and possessions are of your current form. what do you do?

You are a body double for a dictator, the real dictator has died and nobody has figured it out yet

You are a homicide detective called to the scene of a murder. You quickly realize that the victim is a younger version of yourself.

My dorm mate has been acting a bit off recently. When I asked her what was wrong, she said “What? How can you not tell?!” She claims she was in a girls body… like that was abnormal. She’s always been a girl, right? In fact, she seems confused about tons of things that seem pretty normal to me.

You accidentally met your childhood "imaginary friend" you almost forgot in real life, and it seems that they have grown and have forgotten about you.

The person who ruined your life, you hate the most grew up having the same interests and jobs as you are. You realize you will always see this person for the rest of your life.

When he wished that he could get laid more easily, the wish followed the path least resistance and simply turned him into a really sexy, really slutty girl...

"Oh thank goodness you came back! I thought I lost you!" said the teary-eyed otherwordly stranger as they embraced you tightly. You're not sure how or if you should tell them that you're not who they think you are.

After accidentally body-swapping with someone, the two of you begin to feel strange. Turns out there are consequences for when you're in someone else's body for too long.

Every human is given the chance to watch their own funeral after they die. They are allowed to choose one thing said about them to take into their next life, where it will be placed in their subconcious. It will shape who they are in that life.