It occurs to me that our minds are like time machines. Our minds are constantly jumping to the past, or putting us in the future. And it's all happening from the present. When I'm remembering a past conversation, I'm reliving it here in the now. And when I think about a conversation I will have in the future, I'm living it in my mind, here and now.
I've heard it's possible to have people plant memories that never happened. We tend to think the past is unchangeable and the future is open to be created. So if we can change the way we see the past and also implant memories, how unchangeable is it? And that future that is always out there, yet to come, how do our thoughts of the future effect the actual outcome? And how do our minds perceive the outcome?
Our minds have the incredible power to live in all three dimensions (past, present, future) at once. To take an event and perceive it on many different levels and shift that perception at any time. Of course feelings play a big part in our memories, perceptions and thoughts. They are useful anchors in some ways and constrictive ties in others. Feelings feed our mental constructs.
Are our minds time machines? And our feeling the fuel?
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