Memory recall (12/02/14)

Hi!

Happy December 2nd everyone!

It's officially December. Luckily there is still no snow here. Well, I don't mind there not being any snow yet. Most people still have to go to school and I prefer that people do not have to drive in it. Although I really love the snow, I'm more concerned for others safety! ( T u T) How generous of me, right? Hahaha

Well, today I'd like to talk about memory recall. I honestly have done no research on this topic beforehand. So, just like a lot of what I type, I type this mainly for my experience, a bit of reading and my own theories. I'll probably do some research.

In the past I have (and I still do sometimes) read about dreams. I just started reading a book about how to use the brain properly. I've done a bit of reading many years ago about how the brain works in regards to the body. However, the main reason I decided to write this was because of something that happened to me the day before yesterday.

In short, I had two dreams the night before. These were the two dreams that may have been closer to the point of me waking up because I remembered it. Yet, I didn't write the dream down because I felt it didn't have any definite meaning. So I went about my day. While going about my day I began to wonder what my dream was about (and even at this moment I don't quite recall it). So I started to try to recall even a tiny piece of my dream (just like I'm doing now), and suddenly I was about to remember the gist of the dream.

One dream was about a woman who stayed in, what seemed to be, a basement living space. The day was late afternoon, possibly about the time when the sun is beginning to set and it's winter. I vaguely remember what her living space was like. But I do remember someone had broken into her home.

The second dream a was about two twins who were living in a post apocalyptic town. There was this larger lady that they couldn't stand and they left her alone to fend off zombies by herself lol they had been released from her bonding chains lol

While I was tuning in on these details I started to wonder if this is similar to recalling a memory of the past. I think what's the most difficult thing is begin able to distinguish if we're making it up or if the memory is %100 accurate. I'll explain why. Imagine if you're trying to remember something from your childhood, yet you seem to be blocked or the memory seems made up. This could very well be a memory that your mind just isn't ready to remember, or something so traumatic that your subconscious mind blocked in order to protect you from harm. I have read that this is very possible.

I find that this can be handy, and not so handy. It can be handy as a kid because as children we want to stay carefree, we're not use to mental and emotional disturbance. So we build a wall up between us in the problem. Now, this can become a problem when we carry this with us throughout our lives. It's a hidden depth in our mind that we have forgotten, yet it causes us problem in the future because we may instinctively find displeasure in something that is harmless to us, or even harmful to us in some way.

A good example of this is from a show called Trisha. I saw one particular episode in which there were two sisters. One of the sisters was into girls, and the other was okay with getting money by having sex with random men. It turns out (later in the show) that one of the girls was molested while the other watched. This created psychological damage to both of them, which caused one to dislike men, and the other to think very less of her body.

It doesn't occur to us how hurtful something from the past can be, until we realize that something is actually wrong. In a way, it hinders us from moving forward in life.

This is why, sometimes, I can't always blame people for acting up. I do become disappointed, but some people are usually in denile that there is anything wrong. So they go through life acting out.

Another good example was a serial killer. I don't recall his name, but he was a highly talked about serial killer who would store the body parts of young boys/men in the freezer of his home. Of course he was convicted. This begged me to wonder why he acted out the way he did. It turns out he had quite a few things happen to him in his childhood as well.

Now, I this doesn't excuse harmful actions, and people do have to deal with this consequences of their actions, but I do find that I have a bit of understanding for negative behavior. Do I like it? Of course not, but I do understand that a lot of things stem from somewhere.

So what does all of this have to do with anything? Well, looking beyond just the surface of this, it's what made me looking into past lives. A lot of people do not believe in past lives, but I do believe in past emotions and memories. So I respect the idea of past lives.

I do believe that it's possible that we carry with us past hurts, not just things from our childhood, but also from past lives. Yet, I feel that reaching them is very similar to remembering a dream. Dreams are at the farther and deepest depth of our mind. It's at the point when we are the most relax and have no awareness of our bodies. It's at the point where our conscious mind isn't trying to rationalize and calculate everyone (mainly when it isn't in the way to judge what's going on). However, at the very moment upon waking, what's the first thing we do when we have a crazy dream, we may say "well that was stupid" or "there's no way that could happen in real life!"  But in our minds when we're sleeping, everything is real. Have you ever had a dream where you're running away from something and it seemed so real that you were terrified? Only to awaken in your bed and find that you're completely safe.

Yesterday I was reading a book about Past Life Experiences and the author was talking about the different kinds of Psychic "gifts". I put that in quotes because I'm under the impression that everyone has a gift. Everyone is special and unique in their own way. It's just some take the time to further develop the gifts they have (I'll get back to this later). The one "gift" I want to mention is Clairvoyance. This is the ability to "see" things in your mind, or in your minds eye. After reading this part I felt that there is actually nothing quite so abnormal about this clair. A great example that they gave is imagining that a person saw a nice car at a dealership. This person is so excited about this car so when they go to tell their friend about this car, they can recall it in full detail. How? By seeing the image of the car in their mind. You get where I'm going with this right? Recalling a memory is a psychic ability. It's so natural to us that we wouldn't even claim it to be one.

Another example is imagining. From what I'm constantly reading (and I keep getting the same message again and again) is that imagining is the life of the soul. This is the world of spirit. In our world we would think it's ridiculous, but that's because we have a left-sided sidekick that sit on the left side how our head called the logical little thinker. This bugger is what helps us reason if something is good or bad for us.

This is never wrong. Using the left side of your brain isn't wrong. Some people will be more left sided, and other right sided, yet sometimes being logical can stifle your creativity. Well, some people might not care for it. Yet creativity is innovation manifested in physical reality. It's like being able to come up with the perfect dinner night so you can be lovey dovey with your mate. Or coming up with party plans for a holiday event. Some people don't care for things like this and others do.

But for all those die hard logical thinkers, I have a surprise. I definitely believe that you have a little imagination in your and you aren't always so "thinky" :) You have a presentation coming up. You plan and plan away. You want to create something different. This is even a matter of being creative. You're dwelling in a place that artist dwell. You are imagining something different.

Hm...my examples are becoming a bit bland lol Anyway, what I'm trying to say is don't just toss things away because it sounds ridiculous. Look into it. You never know what you'll find. I'm not a religious person, but I do find some parts of different religions interesting. And not just that, but if people find that you're at least trying to understand or considerate what they enjoy, there would probably be a lot less arguing and fighting. You don't have to accept or believe what someone else believes or accept as true, but you can certainly try understanding it.

Now, I can't claim to be the saint of understanding this concept in it's entirety, but I can say that even making the tiniest bit of effort has always led me on some kind of journey of discovery. If something just doesn't work for you, then just don't deal with it. But I can say that we all meet on a similar ground, maybe not in our interest, but in what we all are searching for. One thing most of us can agree on is that we have something we're interested in.

I seriously steered off topic lol The point of this is to give my theory on memory recall, and that I believe that if we did have many many lives that we have lived, I can understand why we would get a glimpse or a piece of one in this lifetime. Perhaps some event in this life trigger that memory. It's kind of similar to if you use to eat a certain kind of food, but you don't anymore, and then you get the feeling of nostalgia when you do try it.

The only reason I find past lives interesting is because there is more to us as humans, than just being buried in the ground and that being the end. I find that there is more depth to us and us living than we think. It makes more sense, to me, that the reason we have certain fears or feel a certain way is because of some incident that happened to us long ago. And not just those factors, but that the fact that we are eternal beings. Also there is an answer to why we come to live on earth, but I'll save that for another time. I will tell you this, if you'd like an answer, it will be there. It's always there and it will always be there.

In a future blog I'd like to talk about this book I recently read. :) It's really interesting. Let's just hope i remember to type it lol

That being said, I hope everyone had a lovely holiday, and if you didn't celebrate anything, I hope you had a wonderful week and are having a wonderful day.

Until the next blog
Mon