RE: Emotions Can 'Hangover' and Bias Our Future Memories
For sure, when I have something on my mind or a big decision to try and make, and I’m feeling less positive, it has a huge weight on my mind. In these times It’s almost like my mind just cannot shut off and is continually running at a much faster rate than my body, and it becomes increasingly difficult to ‘shut off’ and unwind. It makes it so much harder to even think about normal day to day things let alone remember information and learned knowledge,
I also find that today as we have access to everything that’s ever been learned at our fingertips on our phones, this means our memory and brain layout is changing... I feel anyone (not everyone) born in he last 80s and upwards has this new way of thinking, which is almost, not to think! People used to have to read books and search for information rather than instantly get it only to forget one moment later
There is certainly ‘smart phone brain’ where many people no longer remember things because they can simply just access it via a quick search. I feel like this is an intended consequence; when people can’t remember things they don’t remember history. They then just search and we all know that the most popular results aren’t what actually happens and are just a filtered version.
Wow yea very good point!
That's probably why old people usually remember every weird little detail, peoples names and dates of all the historical events etc. Since we don't have to remember anything, we don't even try to.
Yeah to an extent. You know what people in their 20’s-40’s remember a lot of? Useless sports history and stats. This drives me insane! When they remember some game and it’s highlights from the 80’s or 90’s but can’t tell you if we are ruining countries in the Middle East we aren’t even at ‘war’ with, or Africa.
That's true. Although I don't remember sports facts either.....
Yes, we used to read more. Now we just search for things and don't bother remembering much as we can always go search. We just remember the entertainment that makes us "feel-good".