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I know what it feels like to hold a woman in my arms. I know what it feels like to be happy, relaxed, stressed, sad, angry, depressed, anxious, lonely, drowning, hurt, violent, protective, aggressive, afraid and peaceful. I know what it smells like after a woman has recently washed her hair. I know what death, life, the rain, a fall night, a nice lake on a warm summer night and a steak on the grill smell like. I know what it looks like to see a good looking woman. I know what it looks like to see a natural disaster, homeless people, police brutality, the state of nature, the birth of a child, a full moon on a cloudless night when all of the stars come out and a woman's loving smile. I know what it sounds like when pleasant sounding women talk. I know what it sounds like when people cry, a M198 howitzer is fired, big dogs bark, firearms are discharged, explosives explode, babies laugh, Morgan Freeman talks or when a woman has love in her voice. I know what it tastes like to kiss a woman. I know what it tastes like to eat great food, not so great food, drink hard liquor, smoke marijuana and to please a woman. I have experienced those things, my memories created by my senses prove that. This same Touch, Smell, See, Hear and Taste test can be applied to all of our unique moment-to-moment experiences. What senses of yours are being triggered at this very moment as you read this? Could be a few or all of them depending on what it is that you were experiencing as you read that last sentence. It is unlikely you will recall this particular event, sensory wise, as it is unconducive to memorable sensory stimulation.
How many of your experiences fall into that category? It happened, but you have no recollection of it happening. An example of that would be attending grade school. Most students go Monday through Friday. How many specific days are easily recalled at a later date in time? Specific days will be remembered because something significantly specific happened, like schoolchildren watching September 11th, 2001 unfold or getting the news that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Large events like are seared into people's memories. And just like with children, adults also have a weekly routine. How many specific days are recalled at a later date though?
A person will remember specific days like, when they got married to someone, when they got engaged to someone, when they became a couple with someone, when they graduated college, when they were deployed overseas, when their child or children were born, when their pets died, when they got new pets, when they had their pre-wedding party with their friends, when friends died, when new friends are made, when they got a new job, when they were fired from a job, when they bought a home, when they lost their home, when they survived a natural disaster, when people they knew died from a natural disaster. We have the potential to remember many, many impactful days, good or bad, that can span an entire lifetime.
But how many are left by the wayside because they did not stimulate us sufficiently? How many days can you remember starting from today and going back by one day? How many could you remember before you drew a blank? How many could you remember until the next day recalled was a day not in the order of one day back?
Outside of special cases, the normal person cannot remember very many uneventful days in a row. But we nevertheless experienced sensory stimulation on those days.
Something interesting can happen with forgotten days though. Interaction with people who can recall the day that you cannot has the ability to jog your memory. The information for that personally unrecallable memory was with you the entire time but you just could not access it by yourself. How many times have you experienced this in your life?
Has the calling forth of previously inaccessible memories ever had a significant impact upon you, good or bad?
Has it surprised you that a memory within you, locked away for some reason, could have such an impact upon you after being recalled with the help of someone else who was involved with that day? The paradox of these locked away memories is that the surprise element involved, good or bad, has the ability to be quite profound.
Interestingly enough, our mind is not the only component of us that has the ability to surprise us. Our senses, the compass of our reality, has the ability to deceive us, to surprise us. When our bodies are not regulating properly, or we are severely injured or extremely ill, our senses, because of duress, send faulty information to our brain, which obviously causes problems with our ability to use our mind properly.
We are susceptible to surprise on a two-front basis: the bodily senses and the mind.
Naturally, the question arises: What are the limits of potential surprises that either our mind or senses can have on us?
People experience surprise all of the time when they learn new things. An idolized wrestler murdering his wife and child before committing suicide. State-sponsored human experimentation. A man beheading his mother and using her head as a soccer ball before committing suicide by jumping in-front of an oncoming train. The things scientists are inventing, like memory alteration.
New information opens up new doorways in the mind. Information to be learned that has the potential for surprise, good or bad, is of an unknown quantity.
"I think, therefore I am," is used to show that we are here, what we perceive here to be. What has been shown though, just basic human physiology, psychology and recent scientific advancements, is that just because we think we are here, what we perceive here to be, it does mean that it is so. Our mind, senses and capacity to learn are corruptible.
How many of your experiences fall into that category? It happened, but you have no recollection of it happening. An example of that would be attending grade school. Most students go Monday through Friday. How many specific days are easily recalled at a later date in time? Specific days will be remembered because something significantly specific happened, like schoolchildren watching September 11th, 2001 unfold or getting the news that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Large events like are seared into people's memories. And just like with children, adults also have a weekly routine. How many specific days are recalled at a later date though?
A person will remember specific days like, when they got married to someone, when they got engaged to someone, when they became a couple with someone, when they graduated college, when they were deployed overseas, when their child or children were born, when their pets died, when they got new pets, when they had their pre-wedding party with their friends, when friends died, when new friends are made, when they got a new job, when they were fired from a job, when they bought a home, when they lost their home, when they survived a natural disaster, when people they knew died from a natural disaster. We have the potential to remember many, many impactful days, good or bad, that can span an entire lifetime.
But how many are left by the wayside because they did not stimulate us sufficiently? How many days can you remember starting from today and going back by one day? How many could you remember before you drew a blank? How many could you remember until the next day recalled was a day not in the order of one day back?
Outside of special cases, the normal person cannot remember very many uneventful days in a row. But we nevertheless experienced sensory stimulation on those days.
Something interesting can happen with forgotten days though. Interaction with people who can recall the day that you cannot has the ability to jog your memory. The information for that personally unrecallable memory was with you the entire time but you just could not access it by yourself. How many times have you experienced this in your life?
Has the calling forth of previously inaccessible memories ever had a significant impact upon you, good or bad?
Has it surprised you that a memory within you, locked away for some reason, could have such an impact upon you after being recalled with the help of someone else who was involved with that day? The paradox of these locked away memories is that the surprise element involved, good or bad, has the ability to be quite profound.
Interestingly enough, our mind is not the only component of us that has the ability to surprise us. Our senses, the compass of our reality, has the ability to deceive us, to surprise us. When our bodies are not regulating properly, or we are severely injured or extremely ill, our senses, because of duress, send faulty information to our brain, which obviously causes problems with our ability to use our mind properly.
We are susceptible to surprise on a two-front basis: the bodily senses and the mind.
Naturally, the question arises: What are the limits of potential surprises that either our mind or senses can have on us?
People experience surprise all of the time when they learn new things. An idolized wrestler murdering his wife and child before committing suicide. State-sponsored human experimentation. A man beheading his mother and using her head as a soccer ball before committing suicide by jumping in-front of an oncoming train. The things scientists are inventing, like memory alteration.
New information opens up new doorways in the mind. Information to be learned that has the potential for surprise, good or bad, is of an unknown quantity.
"I think, therefore I am," is used to show that we are here, what we perceive here to be. What has been shown though, just basic human physiology, psychology and recent scientific advancements, is that just because we think we are here, what we perceive here to be, it does mean that it is so. Our mind, senses and capacity to learn are corruptible.
