What is happening when a person “goes on autopilot”?
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Your brain has two kinds of memory, long term memory and short term memory. One is for coordinating actions in the moment and one is for storing information for later on. Usually, what your brain considers important gets moved from short term to long term memory but if you’re doing something you’ve done repeatedly exactly the same way, your brain might toss all of the short term memory and none of it goes to long term memory. So you really were conscious in the moment but from your perspective afterward, you can’t remember any of it.
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