Old Dreams & Brain Stimulation

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🗃 Resources:: Do We Remember Everything?
🔗 Links:: digitaltrends
2024-07-05 - 02:12

Recently I started to remember many of my decade old dreams, sometimes even dreams that were more than a decade old. These dreams were nothing special, I had these dreams just once, they were nothing special. No horror, nothing like that. So it made no sense that I would suddenly be able to remember them again, even after a decade.

Naturally, I thought that there must be something going on with me head. I mean, being able to remember everything sounds amazing and sad at the same time, but it's not like I can control it. It's also not like I can remember all the good things, like all the answers to the hardest of questions I've ever gone through.

This got me thinking that maybe we remember everything that has ever happened to us. Maybe, it's just stored in a place that we can't usually access.

So I did a bit of digging. A Hypnotherapist on Quora said that it means nothing, maybe the person remembered old dreams because something in the "now" reminded of them. Well, I wish I could say that's what happened to me as well, but it didn't. Which got me thinking that there must be some other reason for this.

After looking further, I came across this article from Digital Trends which talks about how electrical brain stimulation on epilepsy patients can make them remember/recall old experiences they had in their dreams. I don't have epilepsy, but it's still interesting to know.

Then I remembered that in the past few days, there are moments when I feel like there is no gravity. It happens when I'm deep in work, almost in a flow state, when I feel like I'm floating. That's when I realized that maybe these moments are what causing the electrical simulations, which in turn are making me recall these old dreams.

It's funny, yet at the same time amazing to know just how our body works sometimes.