Mind

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Your mind “rewrites” monotonous speech of boring people to make it sound more interesting.

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Your brain doesn't stop working when you sleep.

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Memories get distorted over time. The average human has at least one false piece of memory.

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People with creative minds tend to have harder time falling asleep at night.

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Our mind has the ability to detect and sense danger.If your gut tells you something's wrong, never ignore that feeling.

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Due to the new discovery of many brain parasites, scientists say that a Zombie Apocalypse is possible.

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Mindfulness meditation adds more gray matter to the part of your brain that makes decisions, which can help you stop procrastinating.

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Daydreaming is good for your brain.

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There are three types of long term memories:episodic(life experiences),semantic(information or knowledge) and procedural(how to do things and learned body responses).

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Thinking in a foreign language makes your decisions more rational.

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It takes the brain cells only 6 minutes to react to alcohol. And drinking alcohol does not make you forget anything. When you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily loses its ability to create memories.

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Brain is the fattest organ in the body, contains 100 billion neurons or nerve cells (15 times the total human population on earth) and a trillion glial cells and has around 150,000 miles of blood vessels.

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The more pictures you take during an event or moment, the less you remember it.

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Your mind can sense someone staring at you even when asleep!

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Our brains have a negativity bias and will remember negative memories more than good ones. This helps us to better protect ourselves.

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Lying requires a lot of mental effort. A person who is lying has to keep in mind at the same time the lie – that it to say, and the truth – in order to hide it. As a result, he uses simple sentences and finds it more difficult to cope with mental tasks.

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