The article that I read talked
about how people’s memories are formed, and also what happens to all of people’s
memories when they die (to put it simply, they just vanish to nothing).
Memories are stored in your brain
from connections, also called synapses, between neurons. A memory is created
when the brain links multiple synapses into a certain sequence. As you repeat
the “sequence” that you learned it in, it becomes clearer in your mind, so you
will remember it even easier the next time. The only way that these synapses
are able to work is through a neurotransmitter. The neurotransmitters need
energy to work and produce memories.
However, when we die, there is no air and
breathing, which means no energy flow goes through, which leads to no
neurotransmitters. If there are no neurotransmitters, then all of your memories
are essentially gone. They are still there in the “track” or “sequence”, but
there isn’t any way to activate the track. There is no possible way of anyone
recovering them after that point. It is almost as if they have disappeared, and
it is like they were never there.
This article really intrigued me
because I had never really put much thought to what happens to our memories
when we die. It was interesting to read about how the memories are stored in
the brain, and what death does to all of the countless memories we have stored.
It is really strange, and weird to think that years and years of memories can
basically vanish in just seconds.
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