why our brains can form arbitrary memories from seemingly random events and recall them perfectly but its hard to memorize something when you are intentionally trying to memorize it?
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Weirdly ties into a description of why childhood time seems to be slower than adult time. I read that it was basically that they had more ‘time stamps’ I translate that as more memory points. Could be explained by easier emotional fluctuations. As an adult there seems to be less ‘time stamps’ so maybe we just don’t flip emotions so quickly and especially if affected by depression. Man.. Being grown up is rubbish.
Write down everything you want to memorize on paper, by hand. Repeat it to yourself out loud over, and over, and over again.
Then burn the paper you wrote everything on.
Now rewrite it all from memory.
I’ve had memories pop up with doing certain things that have nothing to do with what I’m doing. For example when I’m at work filling out a certain report. Having to fill up my tank at the gasoline station comes up with an image of my wife’s cousin. I can’t explain why these 2 things pop up. Another is I’m raking leaves on my yard and my son’s pop Warner football team and coach always come to mind doing this chore. I just don’t get it.
It is also quite easy to interpret. So called stop motion which your brain sees in seconds and for even less time gets saved into your subconsciousness more than into you realizing and actively understanding what you just saw.
It is also a great way to ‘program’ and even ‘re-program’ your dream when you do such excessive some hours before the sleep. Making quick ‘snaps’ with your eyes over a picture, closing them just after you opened and then again in a different succession of pictures or whatever you want. Can even be your pet, a person, your car, your boobies in the mirror, whatever you want!
Your dreams will for sure have those ‘saved’ pictures actively involved in the action.
Where I know it from? Former scientist. I also almost never had normal dreams in my 60+ years on earth. Only lucid dreaming for me.. I used the said techniques to manipulate my own dreams, too. You know what they say: scientists like to play with their own toys, which in this case is your own ol’ dreaming.
Evolution made our brains to function as a survival tool. Therefore we tend to remember things that are attached to our emotions. This allowed early humans to remember the dangers of their environment, remember which plants are poisonous and which ones are healthy etc.
Edit: typos
Just re watched the movie “the music never stopped” this evening and coincidentally read this post just after. Emotions, sounds, hearing, music…
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This triggered a question in me. Can the brain form vivid memories that didn’t really happened?
Imagine your brain is like an *extremely* cluttered computer with no reliable search function. You can search and get most things you need, but the stuff you haven’t opened in the while doesn’t show up.
So you’re on your desktop and randomly you need a certain file, that you haven’t thought about for years. So you start looking for it. Obviously, it’s going to take a very long time.
The difference between randomly recalling a memory is that, you aren’t starting from a desktop, you’re starting from a file that leads to another file of similar nature, that leads to your undesired random memory.
I’m kind of the opposite. I can remember and pick up technical things at work really fast and remember them.
Don’t ask me what we talked about 5 minutes ago though.
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