Take Your Brain for a Walk

Think outside the skull…

How bizarre, that this creature called the brain, is forever trapped in the cage of the skull. Something so powerful, complex, and mysterious. Yet, we plop it in front of televisions, phones, videogames, and any other mind-numbing loop of monotony that we can think of.

Your brain wants to get out there and soak up new experiences! If it had legs, it would elope from the skull and run as far away from us as possible. I picture frantic bodies, chasing their brains down the street.

Every moment of your life, your brain takes you to places that no man (or woman) has gone before. You are Captain Kirk, and your brain is the command center.

Let's stop moping around here and realize, we are walking around, with a vast Universe just bobbing around, above our shoulders.

Go to a museum, an art gallery, do a puzzle, look around you, and use your noggin (Like grandma used to say!)

Our brains are literally dying to get out and about. Hurry, before brain shrinkage kicks in, (around 30s and 40s! I am so late!)

I won't bore you with facts about the brain, which you have all heard before. Personally, I believe science knows way less about the brain than they let on. Just my opinion.

I think they know just as much about the brain, as they know about the cosmos. They only know about the brains they have studied. They don't know about your brain or my brain. We are different, right? They also admit to not knowing where or how, creativity comes about.

I am not a scientist obviously, so my wee thoughts don't really matter. But, if you want to know, I think that our brain works a lot like “The Blob” (I just felt my brain cringe, if that's possible!) Maybe I force my brain to take in too much science fiction!

There have also been many ideas in history on whether the brain is the location of the soul.

Leonardo da Vinci had a whirl at the question, using his experience in anatomy. He decided that the soul was in an optic chiasm, near the third ventricle of the brain. Of course! That’s what I always thought too, Vinci! (JK)

In a creepy 1487 experiment (Most were creepy back then, were they not?) da Vinci elaborated, quite creepily:

the frog dies when its spinal medulla is perforated. And previously it lived without heart or any interior organs, or intestines or skin. Here therefore, it appears, lies the foundation of movement and life.

Yep, and then, he had frog legs for dinner! Just kidding! (More brain cringes) He also played with an ox brain, but I will spare you the details. I am just surmising, but he may have been a budding serial killer here. Just my opinion, though.

So, if the brain is the Tupperware container, with which we carry our souls around in, how are we doing as blob gatekeepers?

I think we should all try to be more open-minded to other ideas and just use the brain like the sponge that it is. Soak up things out of our comfort zone, since there is really no limit to our brains capacity to understand the world around us.

Try to look at things from an unfamiliar perspective sometimes. There are other brains around us, after all. Other brains know things too! You can add others' ideas to your ideas and boom! You have double the ideas! How about that?

“There is 2,500,000 gigabytes of storage space in your brain. The top-of-the-line iPhone 7 has 256.”- The L.A. Times

So, summing up my weird ideas here, before more brain shrinkage occurs:

Be open minded, because your brain craves more information than you are giving it, and it is not shaped like a gavel. You are not the judge. You are an observer, or juror at best.

Think happy, positive thoughts, because your soul might be floating around in there. Plus, there are the brain cringes (Or is that just me?)

Only be like Leonardo da Vinci in the art, painting type of way. Do not poke at roadkill!

Serial killers, please use your brain to think of something else. There are so many other things to think about out there, buddy! Thanks for reading!