22 May, 2008
POWER OF THE BRAIN
Conversations with friends makes you learn something new everyday. While traveling from project sites at Laguna and Cavite, we had discussions on a variety of topics. The one that interest me are the details explaining on how powerful our brains are. As far as I can recall the following will give you an idea what our brains can do. If there are any conflicts regarding to what you know, please let me know.
1. There are two sides of our brain, the logical part and creative part. When we are sleepy or intoxicated with liquor, your logical part of the brain tends to shutdown first. That is why we tend to say anything or do anything without thinking much if its alright to do it or not especially when we are sleepy and drunk. Now, that is the reason why there are so much fight or they tend to have more guts to do anything when they are drunk. And this is also the reason why at dreams we can do anything we like because our logical part is shutdown and the ones doing the thinking is our creative mind. That is why sometimes you have already think of a solution to your design problems when you wake up. It is because our creative mind is more powerful when we are sleeping.
2. Our brains have a maximum capacity. When it is already full, during sleeping our brains tend to purge selective memories especially those that we do not need anymore. Have you ever experience thoughts you know but cannot remember it. For example, you ate at this place at this time, but when a person ask you what did you ate at that place and that time, you tend to forgot the answer. This is because your brain have already purge this information out of your brain. This is also the reason why kids tend to memorize more easily then adults because they could enter more information in their brains because their brains are not that full. This is also the reason why we adults could not remember some information from our childhood because it was purged already. And lastly, this is also the reason why most old persons tend to forget all the time. For us Filipinos, there is a saying “Ulyanin ka na, matanda ka na kasi” Hahahahahaha.
3. There is a part in our brain that secretes dopamine – a brain chemical that delivers pleasure. Drugs, especially pleasure related drugs tend to release more dopamine in our body. That is why, even if you are down and then you took a drug, you tend to feel happy. This is the ability of these type of drugs that makes it addictive. People who took these drugs for the second time, wants to feel the pleasure they felt the first time they used it. But the problem comes in when our brain cannot secrete more dopamine. If you cannot feel the same pleasure you tend to increase the dosage of the drug. Until how much dosage you put into it, your brain cannot give more. Then that is the problem, it could end your life. tsk tsk….
Well that is all I can remember………
