Have you ever forgotten something that was told to you just a few minutes before?
Have you ever been reading a book and re-read the same page more then a dozen times?
Have ever been paying attention to what someone was telling you, and immediately re-ask the same question again because you just didn't quite seem to catch it the first time for some reason?
Or better yet you go to tell someone something and you either can't remember it or it comes out sounding like gibberish?
There are several other questions that I could put in here, but I'm sure you might just be reading forever and forget the point that I'm trying to make. Now where was I going with this anyway? See there is my memory starting to overload now. Ah yes that's what I was saying…
If you have answered yes to one or more of the above questions you have experienced memory bank overload. Sure the human brain can hold a lot but when we only use a small amount of the space, let's call it storage, the brain gets use to it and forgets that it has extra storage that's empty and waiting to be used. My theory is that the brain can only take in so much information in a 14 to 19 hour period before it starts to go into overload.
When the brain goes into overload it just stops comprehending any information that we as humans take in and tells us that it needs some sleep. Have you ever noticed that after some rest the mind seems to be ready to take in more information? Well I think that's because while we are asleep it has a chance to sort and file all the information that we feed into it the pervious day. Sure the human brain is fast, unfortunately it's not as fast at sorting, filing, and storing as the top of the line personal computers. You see I think it can only do some much at one time. Think of it as multi-tasking, we can do several things at once and so can the modern day computer, but if you have 10 or more windows open on the computer it slows down, right. Well the human memory banks do the same thing.
The only difference between a computer and a human memory bank is that you can close some of the windows and it starts working faster. Since our memory banks don't have a 'close window' option we have to completely shut down for a good 5 to 8 hours, otherwise known as sleep.
So my advice to you when your memory banks start going into overload; stop taking in more information and get some sleep to recharge the memory banks for the next day.
