9 Amazing Facts About The Mind

The human mind is a real melting pot of puzzles. Even with all the advances in science, the questions around how the brain works are still far more numerous than the answers, and we are not using its capabilities to the fullest at all.

Even though it seems impossible to believe, most of the things we do with our minds still have no definitive explanation.

Science ignores the details of how we dream for example, how exactly we form memories and what are the mechanisms that make possible the development and change of emotions, among others.

Every day, experiments are carried out in the world, and all of them aim to unravel the hidden threads that move our minds.

So new data is constantly appearing, and it never ceases to amaze us. There are 9 of them.

Occult Mechanisms of the Mind

In this article, we will introduce you to some occult mechanisms of the mind.

• It has been shown that people are successful in feeling greater empathy when touching their forearm and / or speaking to them in the right ear during a conversation.
  In the same way that when people imagine or make up an answer, they tend to look up and to the right.

If they’re really trying to remember something, they’ll look down and to the left.

We also know that people have more possibilities of obtaining a job if they come to the interview with glasses.

Glasses are unconsciously perceived as a sign of specialization and intelligence.

• The average time for a “normal” person to forget a great love is 17 months and 26 days.
  Likewise, research has shown that when you suffer from a burn, specific brain networks are activated. What is very surprising is that it is the same network that activates when we suffer from romantic rejection.
• Depressed people dream three times more than people who are not sad. Regarding physical pain, looking at a photograph of the loved one can reduce physical pain by up to 44%. The effect is almost the same as a common pain reliever.

The curiosities of the brain

The brain will never cease to surprise us. Here are some of the amazing features related to this organ:

• The brains of children who have been exposed to domestic violence follow the same pattern of activity as that of soldiers who have gone to war.
  Each thought is a physical path that is built in the brain. The more this thought is present, the more the imprint that forms this path, the more often the thought will come to mind. This is why it is good to have encouraging thoughts all the time.

• Video games can generate an addiction as strong as heroin. This surely has to do with the mechanisms that activate willpower, because willpower is highly dependent on the amount of oxygen and glucose in your brain.
  When you are tired, or hungry, it will be more difficult for you to say “no” or to persevere with a task.

And since we are talking about fatigue, it is estimated that a person loses his concentration on average after 90 minutes, hence the importance of breaks.

• In our brains, neurons connect in different ways, more exactly 10 times the power of a million.
  And if the brain were a hard drive, it would be able to store up to 4 terabytes of information. In fact, each of us has around 70,000 thoughts a day, even if some of them are repeated.

It is no coincidence that the brain weighs only 1.5 kg on average, but consumes 20% of the energy and air that the body uses.

In a study conducted in the United States, it was shown that who eats food without preservatives or artificial colors has 14% higher scores in intelligence tests.

So what we eat directly affects the way our brains work and configure themselves.

Memories and Deceptive Experiences

Each of us is a victim, in some way, of deceptive memories and experiences such as:

• Despite its great capacity, the human brain does not have good skills to distinguish between fantasies and real experiences.
  That’s why a person can experience a movie as if it was something happening in real life. She may feel sad, scared, or excited as if she is experiencing this movie.

• We all have false memories. In one experiment, photographs were rigged: volunteers were added and they were put in scenes or with people they had never seen.
  Seeing these images, many “remembered” these people and even gave details of the events they were talking about.
  Another detail, even if it seems incredible: we believe more in proverbs that rhyme than in those that do not.

• A person can physically feel a blow being given to someone else, if it is very emotionally affected by it.
  This is because there are cells in the brain called “mirror neurons” which reproduce an experience as if it had been lived in the own flesh of the person feeling it.