CPU

Once I visited a hypnotist with my late friend.

It was the strangest event I've ever been to. I couldn't help wondering why people fell for it. To me, it was a big scam (back then the word scam wasn't used. I even doubt if it already existed).

But like every magician would say: People see what they like to see. People like to be fooled.

It's not the magician who fools you but it's you fooling your brain.

Nevertheless, it is interesting how the public responds if a hypnotist does his tricks. Just like me, not everyone was impressed and the further the show went on the more people were sent back to their seats. In the end, about 6 or 8 were left on the stage. Those were invited to take part in the television show.

So the theatre show everyone paid for was meant to find those few good enough to manipulate. All those who jumped on their feet and obeyed didn't watch anything which is quite interesting or... disappointing if you think about it. Each one of them paid to be monitored while being a lab rat or mouse.

Sceptical me and my friend observed it all. It felt like a waste of money and the voice of the guy with his badly dyed hair was terribly annoying. After at least two if not three decennials, I can still hear that man's voice.

Are we able to remember everything?

I think we might even if most memories are saved somewhere where we can not find them. Sooner or later they pop up. A dream, nightmare, or Alzheimer's disease are all signs of the fact we do not seem to forget anything. The brain can do and make us believe unimaginable things.

Some claim they can remember former lives, many toddlers seem to, even the memory of the period in the womb can be recalled with the help of hypnosis.

That is unless reaching out to the memory with hypnosis is not more than a dirty trick. If not it could be helpful under certain circumstances.

I do believe it is possible to make one believe whatever he wants.

Commercials, books, education, MSM, gossip magazines, and our computers are loaded with information we need to process.

They are all examples of how easy it is to spread fake news as well. It's so easy to trick people into certain ideas and make them spread the 'news' (gossip gossip, hurray for social media), and even make them act like a duck on command.

There are cases of social workers, psychologists and doctors planting fake memories into a client's brain. Being abused or molested during childhood are examples of how wrong those who should reach out and help interpret a person's mental problems while projecting their ideas on their client saying this is the truth. Or is it done on purpose? Are those patients being tested too?

It's clear we see what we want to see. Ask 20 visitors to describe the same event and each one of them saw (read experienced) it differently.

What we see, truly believe we saw, is personal.

It's a unique mix of life experiences, ideas, hopes and emotions combined with how we are raised and educated and this all is influenced by our character and level of self-esteem.

Our brain is like the **CPU** (processor) of a computer although it doesn't function in the same way.

The only difference is that the data stored by us isn't about one and zero only. Perhaps we function better, our life will be so much easier, if it did work in the same way.

Wouldn't it be handy if we could remember everything, and process all our experiences in the same way as the CPU of our computer does? If we find the right information within us immediately without searching?

Imagine if we all had former lives, if every step we took could be recalled (smell, taste and so on included) our own memory with personal processor may make us function better than any computer in the world. We wouldn't even need one. No doctor or specialist either because of all we experienced, know and above remember.

The photo was taken by me

10-1-2024