10 Normal Things Your Brain Does That Are Actually Pretty Strange

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Summary:

  • Our brain constantly works, filling in missing details, imagining conversations, and recalling memories incorrectly.

  • It wakes us up before the alarm, recognizes faces in random patterns, and creates invisible biases.

  • Daydreaming helps solve problems, remembers embarrassing moments clearly, and creates phantom sensations.

Without having a brain, we can’t imagine and live like we are presently doing. Imagine a world where humans live without brains. I think they were nothing but blank paper. Our brain does a lot of thinking, in fact, in seconds we think of hundreds of imaginations that we don’t even know. At some moments, you have experienced that your brain behaves pretty strangely. Here are ten normal things your brain does but feel actually strange.

 

Fills In Missing Details

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You may have taken a pause in life but never your brain. It is because something in every second is some sort of thinking going on. In simple terms, people often keep thinking continuously about what is happening, planning, remembering past experience and so on.

 

Imagines Conversations That Never Happened

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This feels actually pretty strange when you imagine conversations that never happened and it is just our brain that processes those things with pictures. Mostly fictional because it is created automatically.

 

Recalls Memories Incorrectly

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Our brain can remember various things but barely remember accurately. With so much drama ongoing everyday, our brain gets puzzled and blends real details with assumptions, emotions, and new information.

 

Wakes You Up Right Before The Alarm

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While many take it as insane manners, actually our brain wakes up earlier than your alarm clock. It is because it never sleeps and tracks your day and night behavior and so predicts the upcoming sound, trying to spare you the shock.

 

Recognizes Faces In Random Patterns

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Our brain also acts as a face recognition and when you see a face on a billboard or a potato chip, it remembers that face, and even a skilled person can draw a nice picture at once instance.

 

Creates Invisible Biases

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Everyone’s brain works differently, some answers faster than people looping in their thinking. Therefore, each person carries a different speed of quickness. During some moments our brain provides quick judgments which can be biased.

 

Uses Daydreaming As Problem Solving

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It’s not about dreaming during the day but having floods of thoughts in your mind which your brain trying to figure out the best of the best. Your brain is exploring possibilities, or trying to unlock solutions.

 

Remembers Embarrassing Moments Too Clearly

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There are many moments that stamp in our brain for a long time. It remembers those moments too clearly because it saves effectively. Whether that’s an embarrassing moment or a happy moment, you remember it clearly.

 

Creates Phantom Sensations

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It happens occasionally when you sense someone near you when no one is around. These phantom sensations happen because your brain is constantly predicting. This builds a logical pattern in your mind without inferring any input.

 

Automatically Mirrors Others

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You are already aware that each sensory receptors in our body function respectively, but our brain senses it all, pictures it all, remembers it all and so on. Therefore, your brain subtly copies the tone, gestures, or expressions of people around you.

 

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