I admit to not knowing much about torture, but it seems to me that if you are conscious enough to be able to respond, you will also be enough to remember what you replied. People can collapse from the pain, but a total blackout? That would imply that you resisted the torture a very long time, and that you then revealed information when you were in a state that I doubt actually allowed you to share anything in.
But as I said, I haven't read up on how torture affects people...
Okay, as with many military service men I was trained to withstand interrogation, which generally involves some exposure to torture. While of course I wasn't sliced and diced, we did go through things like sleep deprivation etc, which are actually quite effective so long as the interrogator has sufficient tools to check information.
In my experience, you really only remember the whole experience in a pretty vague sense, certainly no one I know was able to recall what they had said in any real detail. That in itself is part of the problem with many forms of torture (you know aside from being morally suspect) the information gathered can be VERY dubious due to the victims state of mind.
