It is always important to know that we cannot remedy our past mistakes, and that we must not live chained to our disappointments yesterday.
The past is the past, and nothing can be done to change it.
But generally, we do not want to forget some things in our lives, especially when it comes to our deepest feelings. The difficult moments, like the happiest, continue to weigh on our heart and on our conscience.
Even if some memories are painful, we are not willing to give it up or let them escape. Thanks to these fragments of our existence, we can remember moments when we were happy.
In a corner of our heart, in a small passage hidden in our mind, some of them reappear. They can hurt us, or make us smile.
We all carry in us the pain of a lost love, and it is sometimes difficult to rethink the painful moments of this period of our life.
But we can also rethink the joy and the feeling of happiness that we felt at this moment of our existence. As during those cold autumn evenings when suddenly, a thinning in the sky reminds us of the feeling of loving and being loved in return. Or when the first chords of an old song sound, and a memory suddenly comes to your mind.
The brain, in its essence, is the most fascinating cluttered “attraction”. No matter how memories seem to us as one, they are still built from a large number of other particles.
For example, we can remember what a person looks like, but forget his name. That is partially, but not completely loses any information about it.
But the main problem is that in all this storage the most necessary for you at the moment is very difficult to find. Human memory is limitless, but we cannot use it effectively and intelligently. Have you noticed that you cannot remember your lunch today, but do you know your favorite poem from elementary school by heart? So, let’s talk about how we remember anything.
The brain has three memories.
First new information is fed into super-short-term memory. And most of it is forgotten in a quarter of a second!
The rest – falls into short-term memory and is forgotten in twenty seconds.
Long-term and short-term memory
Let us imagine the essence of the work of human memory. Short-term memory works to quickly remember the name of a stranger you see for the first time, a credit card number, questions for a test or some quiz, and so on.
It would seem fine: nothing complicated. But the whole problem is that, most likely, you will forget all this information after 24 hours. This is the principle of the work of short-term memory, possessing only it, it is difficult to forget nothing.
Unlike short-term, long-term gradually, over time, collects in itself various important stories and vital facts. For example, your place of residence, address, your own name and surname, bright events.
In fact, these two memories are strongly interrelated.
Elementary: everything that is currently stored in the department of long-term memory, when it was stored in the short-term. Repeating the same fact moved information from one type of memory to another, that’s all. Remembering something, information is more and more, and also moves deeper into long-term memory.
