Have you ever stopped to think about how precious the ability to remember is? How many things you would not be able to do without memory? It’s a little crazy once you think about it, how we don’t think twice about how important being able to remember is, in fact, we get upset when we forget a small detail or the time of an event and say that we have “bad memories.” There are no pictures to display memory, your mind has its own memories and the next best thing is to get you to think about them for yourself.
What is memory? A good question, how can a three-pound organ store decades of life experiences and facts while also telling your body exactly what it needs to do and when it needs to do it, we don’t need to consciously think about most bodily functions, that three-pound muscle does it on its own.
How does it actually work? Well, my understanding of it is that the brain sifts through what is important and what isn’t, have you noticed that you seem to forget things that you deem useless, but remember random facts like how long it takes to microwave a burrito, that’s because your brain cant remember everything that happens at the moment, so it forgets most things to prioritize what you “need” most. I say “need” because sometimes you try to remember something that is important, but you really don’t care much about it, so you forget. Much like when I forget that I had things due at the end of this week that I had been procrastinating for a month, I didn’t want to do it, so I forgot. If you want a scientific explanation, look here.
We rely on our memories in our every waking hour of every day, their importance to our way of life is immeasurable.
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