This was the case with the famous patient known by his initials, “H.M.” H.M. had epilepsy, and to treat it, Since then, functional MRI scans have allowed researchers to determine that many of the same brain structures are indeed involved in both remembering and forecasting.
How the Pandemic Is Affecting Our Sexual Fantasies The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. There are flowers, or twinkling lights, or mason jars everywhere. Thinking about the future can be fun. To the point that people “always say future events are more important to their identity and life story than the past events.” Talk about being nostalgic for the future.But it might help people temper their expectations if they keep in mind that even though they can dream up detailed, novel scenes of things yet to come, their imagined futures are really just projections of their pasts.
The community recalls its story in the present because of its hopes for the future.
We imagine what will happen, hear what people might say, and feel how we’ll react.Thinking about the future is similar to remembering the past.
In much of the West, the cultural life script is something like: go to school, move out of your parents’ house, get one or more college degrees, find a job, fall in love, get married, buy a house, have kids, retire, have grandchildren, die.
(At the other end of the life course, older people’s ability to imagine the future declines in tandem with their memory.
What will I do with my lottery winnings? It's more than deja vu. I’m not sure, but I can imagine lots of wonderful possibilities.I am reminded of the famous George Santayana quote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."