See Also:
Intro to the Brain and the Power of the Mind
Intro to the Brain and the Power of the Mind
- Structure and Composition of Your Brain
- Strange & Interesting Facts on the Brain
- Hormones and Neurotransmitters
- The Role of Dopamine
- The Power of Thought - Neuroplasticity
- The Brain and Emotion
- Neuroscience Glossary
THOUGHTS AND COMMENTARY
Commentaries and essays on a variety of topics including parenting, the capacity for love, emotions, mindfulness and social issues.
A Book Excerpt From
The Road to Neuroplasticity and Change to Heal Trauma, Improve Cognitive Capacity and Maximize Performance
ABOUT THE BOOK
Strange and Interesting Facts About Your Brain
See Also:
Intro to the Brain and the Power of the Mind
Intro to the Brain and the Power of the Mind
- Structure and Composition of Your Brain
- Strange & Interesting Facts on the Brain
- Hormones and Neurotransmitters
- The Role of Dopamine
- The Power of Thought - Neuroplasticity
- Neuroscience Glossary
The brain is a powerful force capable of an amazing things. Here are some random facts about your brain that you may not know about.
- The human brain remains half awake when sleeping in a new environment for the first time.
- Scientists at UCLA noticed that human beings suffer their first experience with anxiety or depression right after stomach illnesses. After brain scans were taken on patients who ate probiotics they found that stomach bacteria actually directly affected the connectivity of the brain.
- Our brain perceives people who annoy us as moving slower than they actually are.
- If you stop smoking weed you are going to experience a huge increase in your dreams and their vividness due to your brain trying to catch up on all the missed REM sleep.
- When people self-injure (cut themselves with razors) the brain immediately stops repeating painful thoughts such as, "I am worthless and unlovable", and then releases a flood of soothing endorphins.
- We cry when we are happy because hypothalamus in our brain can't tell the difference between being happy or sad.
- The chills experienced when listening to music is a result of the brain releasing dopamine. This occurs when a piece of music moves you or in anticipation of the peak moment during a song.
- There is a pair of craniopagus conjoined twins (Hogans Sisters) whose brains are so intertwined, they share all of their senses. They see what each other sees, taste what each other tastes, feel what each other feels.
- The human retina is actually a brain tissue. You see with an exposed part of your brain.
- We actually live 80 milliseconds in the past because that’s how long it takes the brain to process information.
- When a person dies they have 7 minutes of brain activity left. It’s the mind playing back a person’s memories in a dream sequence.
- A dream has 4 stages, each time we go through all of them a cycle of sleep is fulfilled, which lasts between 60 and 100 minutes.
- Our brain reacts to every thought and cannot tell a fact from a fantasy.
- More than half of today’s thoughts are thoughts from yesterday. This is why it’s so difficult for pessimists to change their perception of the world. They need to literally “clean” their brain and make it react to positive things more often.
- Any thoughts turn into life experiences. For example, if you dream about a trip to Paris, you’ll see reminders of this city everywhere. If you want to change the world around you, change your thoughts.
- Our brain reacts to pain but doesn’t feel it itself because of the lack of necessary receptors. Although this fact doesn’t apply to lots of blood vessels, nerves, and tissues that surround the brain.
- Any kind of activity makes our brain generate new neural connections. If we think we’re not able to achieve a promotion, this idea will only strengthen in our consciousness over time. But if you use the phrase “I’ll succeed,” the brain itself will give you opportunities to realize your goal.
- When awake the brain generates enough electricity to power a small lightbulb.
- Violent homes have the same effect on children as combat of soldiers at war.
- The smell of chocolate triggers theta brain waves which induce relaxation.
- The brain releases so much Dopamine during orgasm that a brain scan resembles that of someone on heroin.
- It only take six seconds for the brain to react to alcohol.
- You have about 70,000 thoughts per day.
- We can’t remember much of our first few years because the hippocampus wasn’t developed enough to build a rich memory of an event.
- The brain has enough memory storage to hold three million hours of television.
- To your brain one sleepless night is the cognitive equivalent of being legally drunk.
- The average English speaker has about 50,000 words in their mind and finds the right word in 600 milliseconds.
- You can reword your brain to be happy by by simply recalling three things you are grateful for for 21 days.
- Being dehydrated by just 2% can impair your attention, memory skills, and other cognitive functions.
- Brain information travels at a speed of 268 miles per hour. That is faster than a Formula 1 race car which tops off at 240.
- It’s said that there are 10,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain when, actually, that number is closer to 400 miles.
- Music is one of the few activities that utilizes the whole brain.
- The fight or flight response triggered by the amygdala occurs in 30 milliseconds and can hijack the thinking response which can take 250 milliseconds.
STARLIGHT POETRY BY KAI
View Me on Twitter @kairosoflife
See Creativity Chaos - a Creativity Blog by Kai
About | Reprints & Copyrights | Home
© 2019-2020 Copyright Starlight Poetry
VIEW FULL SITE DIRECTORY
View Me on Twitter @kairosoflife
See Creativity Chaos - a Creativity Blog by Kai
About | Reprints & Copyrights | Home
© 2019-2020 Copyright Starlight Poetry
VIEW FULL SITE DIRECTORY