Thursday, 23 January 2014

Reflection - Memories

Memories 

Memories are from previous events in our life that we store in sections of the brain long term and short term. I think they are a very important and one of my favourite elements of the human brain and what it can do, when storing and remembering areas in and around your life. Your thoughts and memories I feel give you the ability for a short space of time to escape what we recall to be present time. 

I alway wanted to know if this question was true or false " Do we use 10 percent of our brain" I found an article online that speaks about the human brain and its ability to process and store information, and puts this myth to bed by explaining that yes it true our brain does only use 10%, but just how we don't use all our muscle at once the same principal applies to the brain. 

Benjamin Radford, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor   
The fact is that people use all of their brains. Researchers using brain imaging research techniques, such as positron emission tomography(PET) scans and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), have found that brain scans clearly show that the entire brain is used, according to Barry Beyerstein, a professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University.who has studied the myth for years.
It's true that people don't use all parts of their brain at the same time, just as people don't use all of their body muscles at the same time. But throughout the various activities of an average day, just as all muscles are used, all brain areas are used.


I have always had this dream of being able to store your life memories on a hard-rive and able to watch them back, in my eye your life is a movie and i would never want to get ride of the memories even the difficult one. 

The memories I most cherish are the ones I have had with my family and friends no matter how bad of a day am having all I need to do is think back on all the positive moments i have experienced. 

I have always thought of my memories to be chapters in a book that i would one day tell the world through visual images and videos, but right seem to be creatively trapped inside my head wait branch out. Music is a big part of my life and memories, which gives people the ability to express how they feel on top of performing a story.






        










2 comments:

  1. It's been a bit quiet in here? Can't find much that relates to Reflections research or development...

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  2. And nothing much has happened after a month since my last comment above. This is a very poor level of engagement. You need to make at least 2 or 3 posts every week and without that there is little for us to feedback on.

    A reminder of themes of brief for you develop for your photographic project:

    This could be through its relationship to the archive – the images, films, objects, documents and traces through which we recall and revisit individual and shared memories and histories. You could also consider or imagine possible futures and how these may link to the present and the past. For example you could choose to examine life cycles: replenishment or regeneration, the old constantly being replaced by the new, or even the young usurping the old. From seed to harvest, a cake baked and eaten, the repurposing of old things into new, the passing of genes to new generations and so on. The possibilities are endless.

    You need to get moving!

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