Today in Digg, I found this interesting article by Sue Halpern for the Time Magazine
Memory researcher Dr. Scott Small would like to reassure you that you’re not losing your wits. Visit him in his lab at Columbia University’s Medical Center, tell him how the last time you went to a party, you couldn’t put names to faces, how telephone numbers slip your mind, and he’ll walk to his blackboard, pick up a piece of chalk and draw two lines. One, he will tell you, represents age. The other is memory. “As age goes up, memory goes down,” he says. “Memory decline occurs in everyone.”
Anecdotally, that’s no surprise. Approach middle age, and it’s hard not to notice that your recall is flickering. This, we’re reassured, is perfectly normal–all your friends are complaining about the same thing, aren’t they?–and yet it doesn’t feel normal. You don’t just have your mind, after all; you are your mind, and nothing threatens your well-being so much as the feeling that it’s at risk. What’s more, while most memory loss is normal, at least some people must be part of the unlucky minority that develops Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. Why not you?
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To read the rest of the article, please go here.
Gabriela,
You maybe have a memory to put those words down…
I love that trap, so.
Blueberries, aerobic exercise…and not praying to be “in the present” anymore…
Without memory we disolve in the eternal soup of consciousness, because we are always changing…we are not “a person”
The memory is the glue that appears to us like our personality, our life…
Without past we are the pure life energy in a human body.
We must try to teach those “enlightened desmemorized” how to make miracles. They are no longer corrupted by the limitedness of this civilization. They are pristine, like a baby. They are pristine like every moment that is not influenced by the previous, at least is the most recent teaching in quantum physics: every moment is whole and independent of any other.
Memory is a trap. An illusion.
If “the bible is not a science”, science has not absolute value.
But indeed it’s good to have food, exercices, and all that’s give the memory a way to fulful its potential.
Look, it’s of course impossible to pick up other results on mice, as meditation, self support, or even not so-known practices on one’s brain… All that can reinforce the substance.
Moreover, they forgot to talk about nuclear, antibiotics, GMOs effects on brains…
As for me, I consider my memory as an entity. I talk to it as though. Sometimes I could thank it, because of its fantastic powers. I’m really grateful to it.
Human creation is simply fantastic, but many people don’t think about it. They believe memory is here of vested right, as a leg that walks. They don’t stop the time a little to admire it. As if its existence was a normal thing, among normal ones.
Gratefully
Oh thank God for that …I will put it down to almost turning 40 ..(.39 3/4 ) at least anyway ,moving and some Grief ,stress. We are human after all…Blessings Tania
Have a wonderful weekend Paulo
people fear more the possibility that they will be not self sufficient ,than death.Losing memory is a serious and very sad thing.My poor granny is almost like one out of ….she cant remember things,and the worse is that she was an intelligent woman.teacher of French,beautiful woman.I am in a different situation,I have to remember too many names,because I am finishing University.So,at a moment,I start to forget some things,the amount of informations are great.bye
There’s nothing new about people’s forgetfulness, that hasn’t been here before; although now we can name the diseases that are responsible for memory loss. We can also explain more or at least try to, but does it help to solve the problem? To some extent yes, we can cure more or slow down the diseases or symptoms, but with the environmental pollution etc., comes new problems, new unsolved mysteries and so on. Nothing can stop the evolution, of men and of..the diseases. Genes mutate, pollution is getting bigger by the minute, food is unhealthy, stress and lack of sleep are “normal” now; life is as quick as it possibly can. All of these are just steps to the distraction of the human kind. Slow yet sure.
Clock is ticking and nothing can stop it, and it looks like, so evidently, nobody really wants to.
We are the ones who make all of these happen to us and to everything around us.
How we can remember anything when there are calculators, computers, etc.. to think for us, to “make this life easier” for us?
But do they really? Not to our brain at least.
The brain if not stimulated, just slows down, gets lazy and it cannot function the way we expect it to, especially when we get older. How can it? If we constantly make it do less and less “job”?
So who is responsible for all the memory loss if not us? Diseases? I don’t think so.
I remember learning about the brain when I was studying anatomy, it was so exciting, so mysterious, so amazing. The brain has such a potential hidden inside, yet we don’t want to explore it, we want to make it easier for it, and..why? If it was created to think, to resolve problems, puzzles, to do so many..undiscovered tasks.
So, besides the memory loss, are we losing…our minds too?
:-)
love
Agnieszka