{"id":9414,"date":"2016-01-16T16:55:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T22:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/?p=9414"},"modified":"2016-04-27T19:44:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T00:44:09","slug":"how-we-fast-forward-memories-and-learn-to-slow-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/2016\/01\/how-we-fast-forward-memories-and-learn-to-slow-time.html","title":{"rendered":"How we Fast Forward Memories and Learn to Slow Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently scientists from the University of Texas found a mechanism in the brain that explains how we are able to remember grand amounts of data in a matter of seconds.\u00a0Before now scientists weren’t sure how we are able to take an event such as watching a movie or hanging out with our friends and compress it down into a few seconds of data recall.<\/p>\n

This mechanism also explains how we are able to plan out entire future events without spending a lot of time in our minds planning. In other words, somehow we are able to speed up our memory and future memory very quickly. The breakthrough\u00a0has many implications including research into spectrum disorders, Alzheimer’s, and schizophrenia according to the scientists.<\/p>\n

Mental Compression ‘Software’<\/h3>\n
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This newly discovered mechanism can compress information in your brain for later memory retrieval, planning, or imagination. The data is encoded within the brain on a wave frequency that is different that those used for recording experiences in real-time.<\/p>\n

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Our brains can share information in electrical waves that flow throughout the mind and by tapping into the various frequencies, we can play back our memories or use them to construct possible future scenarios. All of this mental work can be played in fast forward showing us that our minds are incredibly intuitive computers.<\/p>\n

“The reason we’re excited about it is that we think this mechanism can help explain how you can imagine a sequence of events you’re about to do in a time-compressed manner,” says Laura Colgin, an assistant professor of neuroscience. “You can plan out those events and think about the sequences of actions you’ll do. And all of that happens on a faster time scale when you’re imagining it than when you actually go and do those things.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inside of our brain, fast rhythms of gamma waves will encode memories about the things happening to your right now. These waves are encoded one after another as your brain and senses process the vast amounts of information coming at you every moment of every day. Scientists found that when they slowed the gamma rhythms which your mind uses to retrieve past memories, imagine\u00a0or plan for future events, you can store much more information in the longer waves. This makes it easier to fast-forward data retrieved in the brain.<\/p>\n

During mental compression, your mind acts very much like a computer. When you replay a mental image it often doesn’t have the original\u00a0detail that you had when you first experienced the memory. Unless your computer is allowed to fully extract a file the quality is also lost. This data may help us learn how to strengthen our memory as well as understand why memory surrounding emotional events such as crimes is less than reliable.<\/p>\n

Colgin also found in the research that this discovery could help people with schizophrenia because they have a disruption in their gamma rhythms which makes it hard to tell the difference between their imagination and real experiences.<\/p>\n

“Maybe they are transmitting their own imagined thoughts on the wrong frequency, the one usually reserved for things that are really happening,” says Colgin. “That could have terrible consequences.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recall and Memory<\/h3>\n
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As we gain greater control over our minds ability to compress and rewind time we may be able to tap in a more accurate memory known as recall. Recall\u00a0is where we literally rewind our minds and then play the event in its true form again in our mind. This is the core of photographic memory and is not clouded by the haze of traditional memory or emotions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Kairos vs Chronos Time<\/h3>\n

In Ancient Greece, they had a way to explain the difference between our perception of time speeding up and slowing down (Kairos), and regular chronological time. Kairos time was also known as gods time because it feels as though you are outside of the matrix of regular time. In Kairos time life just flows around you, you perceive it at a very fast rate, respond quickly, follow coincidences and feel as though no time has passed or energy was spent on the task at hand.<\/p>\n

This type of time perception has also been termed being ‘in flow<\/a>‘ or ‘in the zone’. Sports athletes and spiritualists seek after and study this state in order to maximize their performance.<\/p>

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