Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

My body doesn't handle lots of cheese well, but anytime I go out to a restaurant that has garlic cheese toast you can bet I get that garlic cheese toast even though I know I'll be sitting in the bathroom a while later thinking "So this is how it ends". Some things are worth it, garlic cheese toast is one of those things, kittens would make the list as well, get the benadryl and get playing.

Retrieval cues

A retrieval cue is a type of hint that can be used to evoke a memory that has been stored but cannot be recalled. Retrieval cues work by selecting traces or associations in memory that contain specific content. With regards to the theory of spreading activation, retrieval cues use associated nodes to help activate a specific or target node.[32] When no cues are available, recall is greatly reduced, leading to forgetting and possible memory errors. This is called retrieval failure, or cue-dependent forgetting.

Cognitive factors

Spreading activation

One theory on how memory works is through a concept called spreading activation. Spreading activation refers to the firing of connected nodes in associated memory links.[28] The theory states that memory is organized in a theoretical web of associated ideas and related features. Each feature, or node, is connected to related features or ideas, which in turn are themselves connected to other related nodes.[29]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_errors

PLEASE tell me there's more to this and where I can find it. Thanks.

<(O.o)> Just reading about our brains and memory.

One incident was someone in a motorcycle accident and had retrograde and anterograde amnesia. Which the individual had memories on facts and skills but couldn't remember anything before the accident nor be able to acquire new memories as things were happening.

So to this one person, everything was just happening, couldn't see themselves in future events and just saw blackness.

It was just a report, but really once again the idea on how our brains are wired came up in another medical report. It's the way our brains get crossed wired and deja vu happens. It's when you brain mistakenly takes present events and make you think they were in your past. It's like adding a signature on a file when you last saved it on your computer, but let's say it's been opened for years and you just decided to hit save and the time signature is all off.

Actually it would probably be more like your computer crashed and then a crap load of back-up saves in Excel opened and you don't know what is your current file due to auto-backups.