Gretzky

We all pick up information subsconsicouly from our brains. As a matter of fact, our subconsciousness coordinates 1)our memory, 2) basic life functions (you don't have to tell your lung to breathe), 3)express/supress emotions, 4) utilize emotions, etc.

Our subconsciousness picks up information by visual, auditory, kinesthetic (touch), olfactory (smell), and gustatory (taste) functions. The pick up process begins within 1/5 million seconds and store it in your memory. This process goes unconsciously in our minds but we pick up a lot of bit and pieces of info in our brain without knowing it.

Most of us have experience of visiting a place the first time, but our experience tells us we've been there sometime before. The truth is: you didn't go there before, but somehow you pick up this information and it jumped from your memory when you were there.

Regarding the sixth sense...I think it's a combination of the working of the subsconsicousness and some wit. it's not that mystical.

Gretzky

Originally posted by yeahchan at 2005-4-28 02:32 AM:


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I had patients telling me the same thing. Some people are very sensitive to anesthesia (local or general) and their conscious self will completely shut down until the drug goes away (from a few hours to a few days). And when the conscious self rests, the subscious self takes over and we recall so many things we never 'knew' (which is not true cuz we picked up the info long time ago). Some people have stronger 'memory' power than others and that's why we all have peers study better and faster than ourselves (they remember and pick up things faster w/out reciting).

Why is that? No one knows for sure.

By the way, an extra note on anesthesia....my patients kept asking me whether they will be dumber after going through it....that's totally untrue.

Hello, Mikoyap....you're right, I did some work on neurology and psychology. Enjoy the sun if you are in YVR.