Very informative but hoke. Thought you guys might like it. This guy talks about using the mind as a time machine using the theories of relativity and physics. Makes a lot of sense in a way because our minds are in a lot of ways a time capsule... storing information about the world around us from the day we are born to the day we die.
Your mind as a time machine
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The mind is interesting as it remembers things even things we did years back it is there in the back of the mind, just needs memory or a trigger than the memory can show up again. I, think that it can be interesting how this happens and also, the memories can be there for along time and also it is interesting as how that happens. The mind thinks a lot and also, it is something that can travel alot between ideas in the mind and what is right and what will work and sometimes what could work or maynot even work at all.
Yep! The mind is the best TT of all. Now, this is a fact that would be difficult to dispute. I just wonder, how many times a day we do it? I think, you hit on a good concept about what triggers us to go recall certain memories? An event, a sound, a vision, a smell, a word/conversation? The list is endless.
No, maybe the age of 5 is some kind of norm/average, but my memories go back to the age of two, for sure, maybe further back. I know this because I can talk about events and it is confirmed. Wondering how far back other peoples memories go back in time?
mr_paradox
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The problem with our minds is they do not work very well, our memory is extremely poor and contrary to popular belief we have a tendency to change our memories to some degree as time passes. That is why when three old friends might talk about an event they all shared in the past the versions are slightly different. As time passes they start to agree with a common version of what happened in the past.
The mind is one big mystery for me because it has the ability to store boundless information and memories. If time travel can occur with the mind , maybe it can be through a great sense of imagination or hypnosis. I know pyschologists have used that to go back to certain events in a patient's life. But time travel in terms of going way back to a time where the person hasn't existed yet is still a big question for me.
I was saying five as an average yes. But how accurate can memories be from when you were two years old?I don't believe that it would be possible to know some of the details that might be needed to time-travel with your mind. (Time, location, etc...)
(I'm just assuming these factors are necessary to be able to travel through time with your mind.)
I don't think, that storing memories in the brain is time traveling. It is just like watching old movies from the 80's and claiming, that you are in the 80's again. If you make a movie of your wedding, then watching it, is not a time travel - you are at the present, no matter what the screen is showing at the moment. The same is with the memories in the brain. It is somehow recorded information, which remained intact while the time goes. In the best case it will be a time travel of the information, not of you.
Yeah, my first memory was when I was 2.5. I was looking out a second story window at our swimming pool during a flood. It was surreal because there was like 5 feet of water over the swimming pool, but you could still see that the swimming pool was under it. Nobody in my family remembers that vision, so it wasn´t something that was described to me and I mistakenly thought it was my own memory. Of course the flood was famous, so it was easy to set the date and my age.I also don´t think memories are time travel because you cannot change or affect things in your memories. They just play out exactly the way you happen to remember them.. and if you do make mistakes in your memories, it won´t affect the present anyway.
Right. I figured you were talking about averages, but I think we have, yet, to see research get to the bottom of this question of when memories begin. I think, my two year old memory is fairly rock solid. I am sitting in a folding chair eating popcorn in a school auditorium, my grandmother is beside me, my sister is sitting on my mothers lap. I try to give my sister popcorn, my mothers says, no. My sister does not have enough teeth to eat popcorn. My aunt (yes, she is only 3 years, plus couple months older then me, my grandmother had my mother at age 14, with 8 children, mother the oldest). It is May day, and my aunt is on stage in a clown costume in a performance. So, I have date, approximate time (before lunch), smell of the popcorn, and location. My aunts age was 6 years 3 months, mine was 2 years 11 months. Not sure, if this is my first memory, just one of my favorite.
True, but the reality is whether the facts are similar or not, the fact is the memory is real for the individual. It is this way, even when a group experiences an event simultaneous. It will always vary on perception. Again, my perception is my reality.Now, when it comes to the ability of our mind working well, I would not presume to cut short the power of our mind, nor the ability of our memories.
Yeah, figured that had to be others with memories that go way back.I see your point (and others) about the memories in our mind not actually being time travel, but fairly certain this is the closest we will ever get, at least, in my lifetime.
Wrong, you store memories from the moment of birth. That is how you learn speech, facial recognition, vocal recognition, scent recognition, etc... You are only able (for most) to RECALL memories from age 5. I remember stuff from when I was 2. And I have reoccurring nightmares from when I was in a crib.
I agree, dreams are just dreams, not memories. At the same time dreams can stem from memories. So memories can have an effect on dreams. You may have not directly experienced your above mentioned experiences, but you have heard of them or maybe seen them as an observer either first hand or in a movie, etc.Even though, I agree dreams are just dreams, does not make dreams less relevant for some people.
What I should have said is we have lot more to learn about eg research on memories that we could benefit from especially in regards to memory loss (Alzheimer's).I have not doubt to the creditability and have complete agreement that we begin to retain memory, as a fetus. I think you are fortunate to have met a doctor that provided more insight into this research. Perhaps you can provide some sort of link to his research or maybe he was relaying research conducted by others? I have tried to locate research that deals with long-term memory, thus far, only found short-term memory. Today, thanks to you, I have started a new search and found links to research from the Society for Research in Child Development. I am specifically looking for some research by researchers from the Netherlands because of their research mentioned in Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc.
Now, back to the subject on time travel and memories, I was pondering the idea about the ability to travel back in time based on memories from childhood. I think, when we are very young before our language develops, we base our memories more in glimpses of images recalled. Still maybe this could be enough information to travel back in time? @Ceolaric because time travel is just an idea at this point, who knows maybe in the future we could go back in a time based in our life based on a image in our memory?