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Originally Posted by electromagneticpulse
Thats one of the typical neurone miss fires which is used to dismiss it as just "something the brain does" like a mistake but if our brains made that many mistakes it could quite easily damage itself.
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"Misfires" in this context are software, not hardware. There
are hardware problems that can severely affect memory processing - which is controlled by the hippocampus (located roughly near the center of your brain and behind each eye).
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Originally Posted by electromagneticpulse
I play bass guitar and electric guitar and its quite easy to tell you that if i stopped and thought about everything i did i wouldn't get one second of a song out.
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This is known as motor skill (or muscle memory) and is controlled by the cerebellum (located at the base of your brain where your neck meets your skull.) But there is an initial period of consciously learning the sequence, then patching all the pieces together. Do you seem to make more mistakes the first time or the hundredth? Placing more emphasis on an activity (such as practice) develops stronger associations (or pathways) in the brain. Strong emotional response can trigger the same types of associations to develop.
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Originally Posted by electromagneticpulse
Like if you stopped to think about driving a car you would crash straight away.
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I'm a
huge believer in defensive driving - scanning the road, looking for potential problems, and thinking in terms of contingencies. Most of this is in the form of conscious thought.
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Originally Posted by electromagneticpulse
The brain has a subconcious seemingly to keep your "concious" (of what we see) doing the important things that need more controled thought on.
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That's the real beauty of having distributed control centers. You can run from the lion
and decide on the safest place available all in the same instant.
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Originally Posted by electromagneticpulse
What im thinking is that neurone "miss fire" is sometimes the cause but it happens to regularly and is too common for me to accept that its just my brain making a mistake. That essentialy everyone in the whole world has a mental disorder of a major degree is somewhat unnerving.
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Now where
did I set those car keys 3 minutes ago?
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Originally Posted by electromagneticpulse
My DeJa Vu experiances some are just the wow thats odd ones but others like i said i can remember seeing them in a dream which i've just forgotten about over a couple of hours or days but our brain doesn't "forget" it just puts it in the "back of the cupboard" (so to speak) so that our brain doesn't get clogged down. So the my brain "missfiring" is either effecting the past (which i've written my dreams down before and had the deja vu of it weeks or months later) or it is something slightly bigger.
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I've had the same compelling feeling as well. I tend to think that the event triggered a false association. Have you ever "remembered" that someone was with you - say on a fishing trip 2 years ago when in fact they were not there at all. You usually end up saying something like "Oh, that was
Jane that was with me." or "You're right,
we went fishing at that
other lake."