“Unwanted Memories”
-it’s not about good or bad ones, it’s about realisation
This is one of the realization on which random theories are built in life. You all’ll keep encountering them in my future writing. So , let’s start with clearing the title , as mentioned it doesn’t mean bad or good memories.
Everyday is filled with moments which create memories. We encode, store and recall them. They in turn develops our behavior, also drives decision of our life. But some memories just need to be sent to recycle bin,which is difficult for us.
Unwanted memories are like passerby, they are w.r.t someone to entertain you or make your living easy in changing surrounding. They are not needed to be encoded or stored in your brain.
But how?
Apparently left and right frontal cortex are used to repress unwanted memory thus less activation of hippo-campus — storage place of episodic memory.
A famous anecdote by Andrew Sullivan- By smoking a pot, a famous artist would express himself by suppressing the analytic portion of mind that was inhibiting him.
Weed seems to unleash a stream of loose associations by showing a definite hyper priming tendency. A psychologists refer it as a flat associative hierarchy. Still under speculation that weed enhances brain activity in right hemisphere of brain. In fact it doesn’t just suppress our focus instead, it changes the very nature of what we pay attention to , flattening out our hierarchy of associations.
An instance which resulted into this theory!
Smoking weed is not a result of will to erase unwanted memories but the other way round.
An experience marijuana smokers might have faced is the blurred memory of certain past moment. They could not recall or cherish the memories spent with the passerby’s of life. Consciously, one won’t recall the memories with second person of your past life. Unless not actually meeting those people in present and reminded by them.
A puff for forgetting?
The untold story of other way round situation strike me actually us in one of our feed on weed(charas pe charcha)discussion.
A group of friend high on weed discussing on how unknowingly some memories just fade away from their life. How they realise that actually those memories are not even worth remembering or discussion.
Irrespective of any catogory they would fall into- the good the bad the ugly, they became blurred. Each one of them strikes it with the inception of weed ,unleashing the fact that those are unwanted memories faded with just a puff .
