Memory of the Brain
Although the reactions of our body scare us from time to time, these are actually the messages our brain wants to convey to us.
As the years pass, we find it difficult to remember the past.
Maybe we don’t remember 5-6 years old and before.
So, are these experiences really erased from our brains, where do these experiences go?
In my opinion, although we have difficulty remembering our lives, the fact that there is a miracle called brain memory draws my attention here. When do you say when the brain starts to record, I think that this record is formed with the formation in the mother’s womb. From this onset to death, the recording continues.
The brain takes the stress, sadness and anger experienced by the mother while still in the womb. It codes the mother’s attitude towards her child during the first two years after the birth, during her need for the mother, as good if the mother is interested, as bad if not. Even if he doesn’t remember it as he grows up, the individual looks at the outside world as either good or bad because the brain remembers it.
In other words, no matter how much we think we have forgotten, our brain allows us to move forward in our future lives and make choices in line with that recorded information. The brain is such a thing that it actually struggles with our wishes and desires.
Sometimes we have things in mind and we do or express them as appropriate. Well, if we want something but we don’t bring it to our consciousness, what happens at this point?
There is no limit to our wishes and desires. Sometimes the things we desire may be morally distressing actions or thoughts that can harm us. At this point, the brain can throw those thoughts into the unconscious in the background rather than bringing them to the surface, that is, to consciousness. In order to satisfy these unconscious wishes and desires, we can achieve satisfaction by changing the object or the form of satisfaction in normal life. For example, the fact that someone who wants to harm people is a boxer in their normal life, being a surgeon may be related to satisfying that desire that they have thrown out of their unconscious mind, or it can be a good example for someone who wants to be dirty and wants to mess up, to be a painter.
These were examples of the fulfillment of our wishes and desires, which we discarded into the unconscious. But what if these wishes and desires are not satisfied?
When our wishes and desires are not satisfied, it does not matter how strong the suppression defense mechanism is, but if it is not suppressed well, our wishes and desires begin to receive signals from the unconscious to the conscious. More specifically, unsatisfied cravings appear as symptoms. Unsatisfied desires and desires in our unconscious lie on the basis of panic attacks, somotoform disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorders that we frequently encounter.
Here we see again the power of the brain’s memory. The brain never forgets.
Mediha Ezenci
