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'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by boomboomsubban »

rtx wrote: post #25
boomboomsubban wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think science has not researched this and found it largely to be true? Here's one article on the subject https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10870...

They have, and thats how its confirmed. My comment is more around the social or cultural wisdom being mocked or ignored. I understand where it started from or why it was necessary, but the pendulum has sung too far.

But the social or cultural wisdom wasn't ignored, it was tested and found to be accurate. It's not about the pendulum swinging too far, cultural wisdom is mocked because it is often nonsense people convince themselves is true.

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Post by magicalhippo »

IAmNotAFix wrote: post #26

Are we supposed to have non-movie-like memories about the past? I mean, other than remembering "knowledge" such as sentences or dates or numbers or geography, etc, it seems that all memory about my "actual life" is movie-like.

I remember both moments and "movies". Some memories are more like pictures, usually accompanied with emotions. Other memories are more like movies, where I visualize the events unfold.

I seldom remember what I dream, but when I do it's usually right before I wake up in the morning, and it feels like being in a movie. I often get aware that I'm dreaming and can control the movie (dream) to some extent. I can then get really annoyed when the alarm clock goes off before the exciting part is over.

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Post by csomar »

shannifin wrote: post #13
yesenadam wrote: post #8

I guess this is a different thing, but... When I was a kid I read a book that said if before you go to sleep you think "I will wake up at Xam" (whatever time you want) then you wake up at exactly that time. Which is pretty weird! We can't do that when we're awake. It actually works, and I've never needed an alarm clock. For a few ultra-important days I used one, like catching a plane, but I was always awake before it…

I heard this from someone who swore it worked for her too, but it has never worked for me. It must be a superpower! :)

It's not a superpower. For me it's a combination of two: Urgency and having had enough sleep. If I have a flight, I almost always wake up 30 minutes before my timer go off; even if I didn't get enough sleep. If I have nothing important to do the next day, my brain will usually ignore the waking up part and carries on.

One thing I noticed is that in the last year I have been waking up just a few minutes before my alarm goes off. My postulation is the iPhone alarm sound. It's bizarrely painful that I think I'm waking up just before it to avoid hearing it.

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Post by Drakim »

orbifold wrote: post #20
senectus1 wrote: post #6

huh... I dont have any movie like memories... is this something I should be concerned about?

I always wondered this during meditation in high school: Do people actually see things when they close their eyes? The whole “you are at a beach, there is a gentle breeze...” never did anything for me. I can remember colors, relative positions, even how a specific place looked overall fairly well, but I don’t see anything.

You likely have Aphantasia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

As for your question, yes! I don't need to actually close my eyes, I can think about certain things and see a vivid image of it deep inside of my mind.

If you need something to compare it to, can you actually hear music in your "mind" when you think about a song? It's kinda like that.

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Post by hhjinks »

apples_oranges wrote: post #19
notRobot wrote: post #4

Memory is a crazy thing. What I find particularly interesting is that some people recall memories in first person, and others in third person. Baffling.

I never thought about this, but if there's two ways to remember events there's probably also three, four.. or more?

All my memories have George Clooney in the role as me.

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Post by kklisura »

yesenadam wrote: post #8

I guess this is a different thing, but... When I was a kid I read a book that said if before you go to sleep you think "I will wake up at Xam" (whatever time you want) then you wake up at exactly that time. Which is pretty weird! We can't do that when we're awake. It actually works, and I've never needed an alarm clock. For a few ultra-important days I used one, like catching a plane, but I was always awake before it…

Was it "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" that you read, by any chance? I remember reading that there and applying it as well and it did kind of work. I've read that as kid as well, so maybe that has to do with something. I regard that books as a pseudoscience from today's time, but who knows.

Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by wongarsu »

nihilius wrote: post #5

Just want to mention here that people exist wich can’t recall a memory trough mental images. It’s called aphantasia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

I can't really relate to the article's description of episodic memory. I'm also aphantastic. I wonder if there is a correlation or if it's just coincidence.

These things are surprisingly little studied, for example aphantasia has only really seen scientific interest in the last ten years. We all seem to assume that everyone's experience is the same as ours, only slowly discovering how untrue that really is. Even something "obvious" like colour blindness in only known for about 250 years.

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