Beyond doubt our human mind is a huge album of images. Thousands and thousands of them, and all of these keep getting pulled up randomly with auto generated patterns.
For instance, on listening Axl Rose sing "Sweet Child O' Mine", there is an image of me standing in RAIT (my college of engineering in New Bombay) ground floor near the Chemistry Lab. I am not even sure if I have ever stood in that place listening this song. But it has stuck. (Music)
Or on seeing one of those golden orange evenings it quickly transcends me to one such evening in Bombay. I do have a complaint that such evenings are really hard to come by so frequently in any place other than Bombay. (Weather / Nature)
Sometimes we meet or see people who have a strange resemblance (not necessarily in physical appearance, but maybe the style of talking, the content of discussion, mannerisms, etc.) with someone that we know. That occasionally causes us to lose focus on what the person is talking about because the mind just digresses into a different tangent. (Meetings / People)
If I were to go on a drive at the night, one of the images that unfailingly appears in front of me is the drives we used to go on in Cyprus. That internal route from Limassol to Larnaca via Zygi by the sea. One Lane on each side of an undivided road - No streetlights - Mountains to the left and sea on the right - Moon rising from the sea with a tubelight reflection to behold. Beautiful!! Serene!! The picture is perfect in the mind that I literally can feel myself being right there. So every time we go on a drive by night, my wife has to hear go through this vivid description again and again and again. (Activities)
Whats sets it further apart is that the brain can construct images on complete imagination. Images that the eyes has never seen. Images about things that have never been described or may not even exist physically. I bet that every person has an image(s) of a ghost or a monster in their minds. And they also very clearly remember a nightmare that they had seen even if it was many years ago. (Dreams)
Words are powerful. And as usual, as strong a thing as words, cannot be left behind in the image generation model of the brain. Even a slightest utterance of the words "Shiv Sagar" actually brings up the image of a Pav Bhaji in my mind; which is odd since Shiv Sagar, when taken literally would mean the ocean of lord Shiva. (Words)
Try this on yourself. Ask someone to just name a place to you. Your mind will most likely automatically bring up an image of that place immediately in front of you. Example: Colaba brings up Taj Mahal and Gateway of India, New York brings up an image of me taking a boat ride encircling Manhattan, Formula 1 brings an image of Red Ferrari driven by Michael Schumacher and so on. (Places)
Music, Nature, People, Activities, Dreams, Words and Places are a few instruments that aid in retrieving pictures from human brain album.
Fascinating.
I wish to capture such associations (Song-Image, Words-Image, Event-Image and so on) on this platform. Lets see how successful I'd be.
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Very nice point Jimit. The part about Meetings/People is so true with me. I have met a lot of people that remind me of someone else i know, sometimes even in physical appearance. Anant has heard me say to other ppl, "hey you remind me so much of someone who i know", so many times now, that if i don't say it to someone new who i have just met, he asks me if i forgot to say so. ;-)
That is really funny :)
But I am with you on that. What to do. Cannot help it ... You look at someone and the mind just wanders away. More than listening to what the person is saying, you start thinking of the person that comes to mind looking at him/her.
Btw - For some weird reason, whenever I listen to Tum Bin title track, I think of you!! No reason.
Oh Ho Ho, and i thought i will be remembered by some catchy rock number :-)
Well 'Tum Bin' was my favorite movie a long time ago during Amdocs days, and its odd that you would pick a song from that exact movie. Then again MLTR's 'Wild Women' was also a song that i digged during that time, but good that i am not remembered by that one :-)
Ohhk. Now that you remind me I recollect your Tum Bin connection of the time. But what is fascinating is of all the things is how this association has been built up in the mind.
However, your "Wild Women" reference highlights that these associations are risky business. One doesn't wan't to get into associations that happen w/o any direct control of anyone!!
But our mind makes associations without our control anyways, because you cannot prevent it from making any inappropriate associations nor can you change them to something appropriate once they are made. Its like a patthar ki lakeer.
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