Powers of the brain.

@Very-Rusty said
It just may be time to get your doctor to check your meds!!!


-VR

@Great-Big-Stees said
I did that last week and all good except…ah I can’t remember.🤔

I probably have checked into this, in the past, but have forgotten. Why is it we seem to be able to remember things from long ago but not so much things that are relatively recent?🤔

@Great-Big-Stees said
I probably have checked into this, in the past, but have forgotten. Why is it we seem to be able to remember things from long ago but not so much things that are relatively recent?🤔

@Very-Rusty said
Short term memory loss I would assume. 😉

-VR

@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
Sir, you are banned from this thread.

@Torunn said
I'm mostly fascinated about memories, how we deal with them, what they mean to us and how we select which of them are important and which less so and how we re-construct situations. When I compare early childhood memories with my cousin's recollections of the same happenings, they don't always match. Fascinating.

@Drewnogal said
I recently asked my sister and an aunt, 10 & 25 years my senior, if their brains churned up lots more old memories as they grew older? They both agreed they did, as do I. I think this is due to having far fewer new experiences and opportunities as we age, thus the brain focuses more on thinking about our old experiences?

@Torunn said
I'm mostly fascinated about memories, how we deal with them, what they mean to us and how we select which of them are important and which less so and how we re-construct situations. When I compare early childhood memories with my cousin's recollections of the same happenings, they don't always match. Fascinating.

@AlanTal said
So true.
The latest school of thought (pardon the pun) is that memories are not actually a recollection or recall as such, but are a fresh construct every time, and depending how we feel at the time or how we wish to be perceived by others, alter slightly.

It's rather like my tee-shirt with words on it. 'The older I get, the better I was'.

@Torunn said
🙂 So nice.

I have learned that everything we experience and perceive during all our lives are stored in our brains. If we could find the key to the memory boxes, it would all be there. The brain is smart though, and helps us rationalize all impressions to better focus on what's important.


'The older I get, the better I was'. 🙂

@Very-Rusty said
What do the scientists say we use about 10% of our brain and some of us don't use that much. 😉

I would assume Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers use more, but that is just an assumption on my part.

-VR

@Torunn said
They may be 'left-brains', using their intellectual capacity more.

"Left Hemisphere: Traditionally associated with analytical thinking, logic, language, and sequential processing.

Right Hemisphere: Linked to creativity, intuition, holistic thinking, spatial awareness, and emotional processing."

@rookie54 said
one of my own brain's abilities is the illusion it foists upon itself that even tho my body is literally falling to pieces, bones creaking and snapping, leaking from places unmentionable, my mind considers myself to be a 24 year olde stud

who am i to argue?

@Torunn said
🙂 So nice.

I have learned that everything we experience and perceive during all our lives are stored in our brains. If we could find the key to the memory boxes, it would all be there. The brain is smart though, and helps us rationalize all impressions to better focus on what's important.


'The older I get, the better I was'. 🙂