5 curious cases in which your brain deceives you

Did you know that your brain often deceives you? No, it does not do it on purpose, at all.They are small errors of information that happen when you receive an overstimulation, or when you are not able to process each and every one of the effects that happen around you.Our nervous system is a sophisticated machinery guided by a large capacity computer, but sometimes, far from being perfect, it has very small but curious system failures.

Would you like to know what it is?

1.Ear worms

How, ear worms? No, don't worry, we have absolutely no little bugs in the head, but we are sure that some of this has happened to you sometime: you know a stanza of a song , for example, but you are incapable of remembering the rest as much as you try, also, you can not get it out of your head.You stay with this feeling throughout the day, exasperated.How did that song continue, why can't I remember the rest?>

5 curious cases in which your brain deceives you

Scientists call this phenomenon a "ear worm." And why does it happen? The explanation they give us basically is that our brain gets stuck in a loop (like a kind of space-time loop).And the most curious thing is that our brain is something masochistic, and always tends to return to thoughts and memories unfinished, getting stuck even more.Any advice to get over it? Focus for a while on another somewhat complex cognitive activity, such as doing a sudoku for example.

2.Semantic satiety

When we were little we used to do this many times.Namely: repeat one word continuously until we end up saying another For example, if we start to repeat many times "chocolate" we will end up saying something like "copate" or "plate".But there are still more.Scientists tell us that in addition, we forget the meaning of our own Word itself for a moment, is what we call "semantic satiety." The brain simply collapses with the repetition of this term.

3.Sympathetic pain

We are cutting the vegetables for dinner and suddenly, a friend of ours, passes his index finger knife very close, but without getting cut.You see your cat go through the dining room door, and without knowing as, a wind blow closes the door and is about to catch his tail.What do we feel? A kind of sudden pain, nothing has happened, but for a few seconds we feel an emptiness in the stomach and a sensation of pain.It is what in psychology is called sympathetic pain .And why does it occur ? We experience it through the so-called mirror cells, structures that allow us to feel empathy, that emotion that identifies us with pain and the feelings of others.A positive faculty, while intense, no doubt.

4.The GPS effect

«Where do you go to this restaurant so good and economical that we went on Saturday? What if we put the GPS in the mobile and guide us? »Indeed, it is something we all do lately, even to find the street where our friend lives, even to find the car that we have parked in the mall.The mobile phones and their applications try to make our lives easier.But what is the result? That every time we try less, we stop developing our capacity for spatial orientation, and this, in the long term, is very negative for our brain and its health.This causes that sometimes we forget to reach places that we usually go frequently./p>

5.The drunkenness of sleep

When we are many days without sleep we feel exhausted, without energy, our faculties begin to fail.We all know it.What happens when we do the opposite, that is, sleeping too much? We must be clear that the biological need to sleep is intended to provide rest to our body to replenish energy.

5 curious cases in which your brain deceives you

If we exceed, if we offer so many hours of lethargy, we get the opposite: a kind of sleep poisoning , that will make us wake up with some side effects, such as tiredness, dizziness, slow movement...a kind of drunkenness.Really curious right?

Image: Neil Conway

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