Dr. Lila Landowski

If you don't have to be bored, then why would you bother?

Yeah.

I mean, at the end of the day, we sort of think of, we like to think of our memories being like CCTV footage, like it's a perfect recollection of things, but it's not.

It's really a collection of memories that we then try and piece together when we're trying to recall what

might have happened at a certain thing.

And that also means that it's really vulnerable to change as well.

So the longer we spend after an event has happened and we try and recall what happened at that event, then the more likely it is that those memories can be changed and can be influenced by things that we've done.

So let's just say we went to a party a couple of weeks ago and I have my version of what happened at that party.

But you tell me that you remember that something else happened and we had that conversation, then my brain might start to sort of piece that into the memory of what happened, even though I never was there or never actually saw it.

And we see that all the time.

And that's sort of why we have this thing called a statute of limitations in the court process when someone has experienced something traumatic or

whatever it might be, and they're trying, you know, I guess because those memories aren't as trustworthy as time goes on, it's hard to use that as evidence.

What about popcorn brain?

Popcorn brain.

Ah, so it's this, well, I guess it's a pop term that sort of describes how our brain sort of bounces about from one thing to the next.

Our attention is constantly shifting and popping around.

But really that's also kind of because of social media a lot.

So if you think about it like this, so our brain is really good at learning things

from things that we do all the time.

And if we're constantly using our phones and seeing one bit of information and then seeing a different kind of bit of information, we're constantly actually context switching.