The actions of most living things (not very primitive) are controlled by the brain. But a person as the owner of this “engine” often does not find an explanation for what makes him act and think in one way or another from this center.
It is no accident that the brain does not cease to be the object of attention of researchers, who often give conflicting explanations for signals sent from the cranium.
10. In transport, the brain works worse
It is believed that over the centuries the brain has become accustomed to such varieties of movement as walking or running. But when people sit in a car or train, their muscles do not tighten, and their eyes observe only part of the world visible from the window. The vestibular apparatus in this case receives movement signals.
As a result, the brain begins to seem that it is poisoned. Therefore, it becomes more difficult to think, but a natural reaction appears - nausea, which helps to cope with poisoning the fastest.
9. Disabling motor activity during sleep
Disabling the brain's ability to move allows you to sleep soundly. The only thing that is allowed to a healthy person is to turn in a dream if he is tired of being in the same position.
When failures occur in the “pot”, the person sleeps restlessly or even walks in a dream. Although sometimes, on the contrary, the brain does not turn off the lock immediately upon awakening. So there is the effect of carotid paralysis, often causing fear. Fortunately, it does not last long. Awakened gets the opportunity to move when his brain activity returns to a normal level.
8. Encouragement of overeating
No matter how much one wants to believe that people are masters of their food needs, the brain often makes you eat more than you need, even with a feeling of fullness of the stomach. Experts explain such oddities in different ways.
It is believed that such a behavior program is recorded on a “live hard drive” in childhood, when adults force the child to finish eating everything on the plate.
There is also the concept of food dependence, for the development of which the same brain centers are responsible as with drug use.
In addition, it is noted that the brain provokes the eating of excess when threatened with a lack of food in the near future.
7. Enjoyment of anger
Anger is considered a manifestation of bad manners. Since childhood, a child is taught to suppress this feeling.
However, studies show that it is often perceived by the brain as happiness. It causes the release of adrenaline into the blood and makes it move.
The more often anger arises, the more is the temptation to succumb to it again in order to experience a peculiar pleasure and to release the energy that overflows the body.
6. Submission to orders
Experiments show that it is difficult for a person to resist orders, even if they contradict internal moral principles.
Scientists at different times conducted research, during which they suggested that the subjects apply gentle electric shocks to each other.
Some managed to persuade to do this for money, while others were forced to do so only under the influence of a direct order. After him, those who under no circumstances wanted to become an executioner also clicked on the button.
It turned out that in certain circumstances, the brain ceases to correctly analyze the consequences of human actions, inhibiting a sense of responsibility for what is happening.
5. Recognition of faces where they are not
The ability to see faces in random lines and objects is called the phenomenon of pareidolia. Scientists believe that this manifestation of the brain was given to an ancient person by nature for survival, in order to instantly recognize a threat in low visibility conditions.
Because of this, people have learned to see faces even in random objects.
As a result, you can see the faces in the images from Mars, see them in the clouds, in the outlines of the spreading fluid, in furniture, cars and so on.
4. The Dunning-Krueger effect
The phenomenon, dubbed the Dunning-Krueger effect, is that people who are poorly versed in certain things tend to overestimate their capabilities. (At the same time, those who are knowledgeable, on the contrary, underestimate their competence and abilities in specific areas of knowledge).
This applies, for example, to assessing one’s own and someone else’s professionalism, one’s own behavior, which led to unpleasant consequences. The effect is manifested even in the views on one's own illness.
So, for some patients it is sometimes almost impossible to prove that they lack an internal organ or a specific part of the body.
The brain includes a defensive reaction, which makes it possible to ignore this or that information, and does not allow you to look at the situation objectively.
3. The taste of food is born in the brain
Often, even when looking at the image with food, a person begins to feel a certain taste in his mouth. A clear sensation is formed on the basis of information received by the brain through vision, taste buds, and olfaction.
If a person with a stuffy nose in the dark is offered potatoes, saying that it is an apple, he can easily believe it by sending it into his mouth.
2. Belief in justice
Studies show that a sense of justice arises in people at the level of the subcortex, and not the cerebral cortex. It does not give in to mental control in full.
As a result, people come to strange conclusions and views regarding certain phenomena.
For example, a rape victim may be accused of being guilty of what happened - there was no need to live or walk in certain places.
They also ignore the crime before society under the guise of the fact that God will punish a bad person anyway.
1. Memory editing
Many of human memories are fake, or full of a huge amount of deceptive details.
The brain sometimes spares the psyche, slipping false memories or removing from memory all the unpleasant, causing an acute painful feeling. So, a person forgets the embarrassing situations in which he finds himself, or too heavy impressions associated with things that are important to him.