Can memories be passed through DNA?

I wanted to present this topic and get a discussion going.

Some of you know my dad unexpectedly passed away a little over a week ago while mowing the yard. He apparently had several clogged arteries (despite a recent good check-up) and the coroner assured us he didn’t suffer with a “he was dead before he fell to the ground” statement 🤨 .... that’s comforting. I guess. *****this also makes me wanna make a post about pre-death premonitions. My mom said they had been making closure about problems in the past. He’s been talking about missing his mother and wishes she could have met my mom and me. And the very last thing my dad said to her before he went to mow was “if you need me, I’ll be right out here”. Same thing with my friend that died during childbirth. The things she said and did months before she died were so telling after everything happened.***

I was going through his stuff today, and found out his bio dad that was in/out of his early life before dipping out completely before he hit double digits was a mailman. As was his father before him.

I remember as a child I told my dad I wanted him to be a mailman, because it just felt like it suited him. As a child I had no logic in saying this. His last interview was at the local post-office a week before he died.

This also made me think of a high school friend that died. This was during the height of people acting out The Fast and the Furious car club culture. They were racing and hit black ice. Our friend flew out the back window and the back of his head landed on giant creek rocks— at a sewer drain— in the hospital parking lot.

That summer, a girl came around saying her child was his. A DNA test was done before friends got to meet the child, and it WAS his.

I remember when the woman pulled up to the auto body shop his dad worked at. Me, my boyfriend at the time, his friend (one that survived) and his girlfriend were standing outside. We all stood back for a minute to let his dad talk to her at her window.

The baby was still under a half year old and looked at us and started waving frantically.

If it can be proven that memories are passed down through DNA... is this where phobias come from?

Unlike the majority of my peers, I have a HUGE phobia of snakes. Some of them joke and say it’s my Viking ancestry due to the story of Ragnar Lodbok/Lothbrook’s death— but the evidence of him ever existing is ambiguous to my knowledge, and even if he did there is impossible chances of being a descendant.

but again. It’s just jokes cause I’ve never experienced anything to make me THIS terrified of snakes. I just am. It’s just the first thing my friends think of to explain why I cannot deal with snakes.

I also had vivid dreams as a child, as most of us do. Which are eventually trained out of us. I always woke up crying saying I wanted to go home and this wasn’t my home. I also always used a fake name in some way ever since I was 2.

Is this a possibility of where children’s “creepy” stories come from, too? A lot of people debate that children say creepy things at a certain age because they’re trying to string together words and sentences, and sometimes it just comes out wrong to an adult listener... but some things have made me wonder 😳

I know it’s been proven that descendants of African American slaves have STRESS into their DNA coding, so we must be able to carry other influencing moments through our family lines as well.

I googled this question and apparently it IS a thing that is being looked into and debated. What do you think?