Talk:Faris NyanNyan/@comment-60.242.97.70-20141025063847/@comment-72.50.83.18-20141214023255

Actually, Suzuha, in the VN, metions that SERN scientists theorized that memories are actually all connected through worldlines and thus you can theoretically be able to recall memories from other possible worlds (remember possible worldlines are not parallel worlds, the possibilities don't exist unless they are observed and only one world an ever be observed so there's only one reality and infinite possibilities... or so the game theorizes). Suzuha says that that's technically what Deja-vu and precognitive dreams are, just your mind remembering memories from other worldlines.

And I think they never say that everyone has Reading Steiner... Faris has both memory sets once she recalls the original world, Okabe does not. Reading Steiner works more like an overwrite. Okabe's memories overwrite whatever memories the Okabe from the world he jumped into had. Basically, it works similarly to the Time Leap machine except it's not going to the past, merely jumping through worldlines. Basically Reading Steiner seemed to be an unique ability some people have a little more unique to the recalling of memories theorized by the game (Faris had a sixth sense ability too and this is the same world where the Gigalomaniacs existed so the setting already presumes ESP is real).

Anyway, to resume: yes, the Visual Novel explains that the possibility of recalling memories is real, although rare and really sporadic.