Your "unexpected" memories and associations connected with the fact that you have seen or heard for a long time

You go down the street his usual way, when suddenly, for no apparent reason, the image pops up in my head from the distant past. For example, associated with the person about whom you have not remembered for years, with little or event that seemingly long-forgotten and reliably. A minute later, the memory is carried away from the general flow of thoughts and disappears as suddenly as it appeared. These memories come up from time to time in the memory of most of us for no apparent reason.

There are even more strange kind of like "sag" when the word appears in the memory or visual image that do not need are irrelevant. It's like suddenly feel that the word "Orange" has something to do with a cheese grater for. Such "nodules" seem even more strange, because you can not find any connection with his previous experience, neither the events nor the places or people. The idea devoid of any autobiographical context.

This is not all, but many. When psychologists interested in these involuntary memories, they found that on average they occur in humans once a day. This occurs most often during routine training when a person goes on a familiar street, brushing teeth or getting dressed. That is, when the concentration is not required and the thought is free to wander.

In some cases, a person can find the causes of these "sagging". Psychologist dealing with this issue, described the investigation of the mental experiment participant LK thus:

«... when LK dispose of the used bag in the trash, in her mind there was the word" Acapulco ", and since she had no idea where it came from and why, then turned to family members. To the surprise of LK it revealed that Acapulco was mentioned in the television show 45 minutes ago ».

blockquote> The case, when it was possible to track the cause of the "influx" is not uncommon. Researchers Kvavilashvili Mandler and conducted a survey and found that the words and images that appear to be holding the ceiling, in fact there is not just. Sometimes this is due to the association: for example, a reference to the New Year can lead to the fact that later on in my head suddenly starts playing the song "The Forest Raised a Christmas Tree." Or it may be due to the consonance of words, for example, the image of a sandy beach that pops up on the type of bananas in the store (bananas and the Bahamas - in tune).

The fact that in many cases the reason for the sudden "flood" can be traced, says about how much information our brain processes outside of our consciousness.

Surprisingly, many memories arise unexpected after weeks and months after a "mechanism" for them to run. This means that all these words, images and ideas can be stored in your head for quite some time. Sometimes, like "sagging" even considered particularly creative thinking as "accidental" association often help to cope with creative tasks.

"Sagging" - further evidence that our brain registers a lot more information than we can realize. Fortunately, most unexpected thoughts and images successfully suppressed - otherwise we would never be able to concentrate.

So the next time your head there the memory of the distant past, know this: most likely, it was provoked than what you have seen, heard or what they think long ago, even if you can not find this connection.

And that is why there are these memories, and not any other - still remains a mystery.

Source: www.mixstuff.ru

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