I, personally, don't agree with that one. I'm not sure why, though, maybe partially just because...well...I just don't!
Which brings me to a question. If our body is running low on something -- say oxygen, someone is being suffocated -- does it try to use the little it has where it is most needed (ie. the brain and/or heart)? If so, is it specific to certain parts of the brain? I am wondering why people who have experienced drowning, suffocation, etc. remember the event, if the little oxygen they have left is needed in more important parts of the brain then memory -- ie. keeping up with standard body functions, like pumping blood through the body.
Interesting idea, michael. In a three-day period, when I was about four, I: (on the first day) tried to stick a dime up my nose, and my mother scolded me in Spanish. Then, remembering that I didn't know Spanish, she just grabbed it out of my hand, tossed it in the garbage, and sent me to my room; (on the second day) found a cockroach on the floor, running away from my parents, who had their shoes in hand, ready to smash it. It slipped under the door of my room, and when they opened the door to chase it, I had already eaten half of it, the other half still squirming!; (on the third day) tried to stick a paper clip in an electrical outlet. My mother slapped my hand away, I sucked my thumb, then, slowly, tried to do that again, got slapped again, etc. I didn't catch on quickly back then.
Now, about three years ago, when I was nine, my mother told me about the cockroach event, and memories flooded back. I then cut her off before she could finish and told her about the paper clip/outlet incident, reminding her how close the events were. That was before she told me, proving that I remembered, that the second memory was not "implanted". However, I did not remember the dime incident even when she told me, possibly because she scolded me in Spanish, which I did not know at that time.
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I, personally, don't agree with that one. I'm not sure why, though, maybe partially just because...well...I just don't! Which brings me to a question. If our body is running low on something -- say oxygen, someone is being suffocated -- does it try to use the little it has where it is most needed (ie. the brain and/or heart)? If so, is it specific to certain parts of the brain? I am wondering why people who have experienced drowning, suffocation, etc. remember the event, if the little oxygen they have left is needed in more important parts of the brain then memory -- ie. keeping up with standard body functions, like pumping blood through the body.
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Interesting idea, michael. In a three-day period, when I was about four, I: (on the first day) tried to stick a dime up my nose, and my mother scolded me in Spanish. Then, remembering that I didn't know Spanish, she just grabbed it out of my hand, tossed it in the garbage, and sent me to my room; (on the second day) found a cockroach on the floor, running away from my parents, who had their shoes in hand, ready to smash it. It slipped under the door of my room, and when they opened the door to chase it, I had already eaten half of it, the other half still squirming!; (on the third day) tried to stick a paper clip in an electrical outlet. My mother slapped my hand away, I sucked my thumb, then, slowly, tried to do that again, got slapped again, etc. I didn't catch on quickly back then. Now, about three years ago, when I was nine, my mother told me about the cockroach event, and memories flooded back. I then cut her off before she could finish and told her about the paper clip/outlet incident, reminding her how close the events were. That was before she told me, proving that I remembered, that the second memory was not "implanted". However, I did not remember the dime incident even when she told me, possibly because she scolded me in Spanish, which I did not know at that time.