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Kind of a strange question, but if anybody knows the answer, you folks will!

I've noticed that when I'm doing repetitive tasks that don't require a lot of thinking (playing Solitaire, for one), I get a lot of early memories popping up in my head. Just "flashes" of memory, but I can usually say exactly when and where they occurred.

Is there a term for this? Is it common among other people? Just curious. emoticon

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Hmmm...sounds like you giving your mind enough time to wander around in its recess. Normally when given this time, we are asleep and dreaming so we aren't as aware of what our wandering mind encounters.

I bet there are techniques for retaining those thoughts. But I don't know any!
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Pooks, that is an odd question, and not one I would have thought to ask about, but I do that sometimes. It's not real often, but it does happen at times, mostly if I'm bored with whatever it is I'm doing and don't need my full attention on it.

I recalled a game my friends and I used to play with my chalk board one time. Another time, I remembered a particular trip our family took...and just a small part of that trip that I'm sure everyone else had forgotten about.



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I wonder if it's almost a form of self-hypnosis? The memories are so vivid, but they're just split-seconds of my past.

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When you occupy your body with simple tasks, you sort of automatically engage a part of your brain as well, which, oddly enough, can then run unattended. This frees up another part of your mind for something else.

You see the same thing in people who have to drive long distances. Most people listen to the radio or talk with someone, but you can actually use that time for something else, if you want to. I do some of my best creative thinking while driving (I generally write essays in my head).

In some forms of meditation, what you've described is part of the goal. Counting breaths is used to engage your body and mind in a repetitive task, then thoughts come - sort of at random - and the meditator lets them come and go without becoming involved in them. Just sort of watching them. This technique is used to teach the meditator to see how his/her mind works, how thoughts come and how they develop, and where they go, which, in turn, allows one to better use one's mind.

It's unfortuante that brains don't come with owner's manuals - but throughout history there have been people who have figured a lot of it out on their own. Groups that traditonally practice medidation have, through centuries of trial and error, learned a lot about brain technology.

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Corbin, I tend to write poetry in my head when I'm driving any distance if I'm alone. Or make up silly songs about something that caught my eye along the way. Which I also tend to sing, out loud...LOL.


Your other points make very good sense to me!

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I just discovered this last summer that I have a unique memory. I pretty much remember everything from the age of 3 on to present day. I can recall entire conversations verbatim (why I never had to study for tests in school) and until last summer, was convinced this was "normal". Several dear friends ganged up on me last summer to assure me that it was NOT normal to remember everything...... I'm afraid I'm not much help but it made me think of it. I'm always remembering the past when I'm doing mindless things.
Ironically my marriage has gotten even better now that I know not to expect my spouse to have a memory like I do emoticon
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Curious, my good friend who is 94 has a memory like yours. It's incredible to hear her tell stories of her childhood since she can remember them like yesterday. You are lucky you have such an ability...me, I'm lucky if I remember what I had for breakfast! emoticon
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I did wonder if it was similar to meditation - now I know!

I surprise my parents sometimes, as I'm able to remember quite clearly things that happened when I was two.

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Pooks, likely you've read Bradley's The Mists of Avalon. It gives the best description of precisely what you've brought up. The novel pits the Old Religion against the New, the priestesshood involving the Lady of the Lake on the island of Avalon against the Bishop who is looking to displace the old ways by the new. And the days are Arthurian, the focus of events is Camelot.

One high priestess, as I recall it is Morgaine, describes the trance she goes into when performing the repetitive task of working at the spinning wheel. In trance she goes backwards and forwards in time. In trance she is put in something called ceremonial time, a time frame in which all tenses, past, present, and future, co-relate equally. This way she comnes to skry in the pre-conscious way, while, at the same time, the past becomes present again. And she becomes thinly, very thinly, tied to the present. Anyway, this is some of what your questions brings to mind. Is it something of what you are after?

I just remembered a small tidbit of information. Bradley says that when she wrote her Avalon novel she was tended to by local neo-pagan groups. The help extended from giving her information on ritual and magical practices to the kind of nurturing that included comforting and back rubs. I love this story, love the thought of it. And I don't know of any novel with as much verisimilitude when it comes to the Old Religion.

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