I've been reading some of the work of dr. Daniel Siegel and in his book interpersonal neurobiology and mine site he talks about how if a person is experiencing trauma the hippocampus is shut down due to cortisol among other things and when the hippocampus is shut down the memories of the event can't be encoded properly and they lack echphoric sensation which he means they lack the sensation of the time element which means that if a memory of that event again popped up I wouldn't know that it's from the past whereas he gives the example if someone says when did you learn to run your bike you can say because you're recalling from the past you can actually think about when and describe the event so the traumatic events black this egg Forex sensation because of the hippocampus being shut down and what I thought of and I have no idea if it's true is that it's possible that when the hippocampus shuts down that information going from maybe the heart to the brain or it could be partly like the heartbeat the heartbeat is different and it's like partly contributing to the release of cortisol which the heart beats in a different way based on the perception so the perception of something not good happening seeing it like if one couldn't see it or feel it they wouldn't know what was happening to a certain extent and then the cortisol being released shuts down the hippocampus and it's not encoding the memories properly and I wonder if this is partially to protect a person from remembering everything the way it actually happened or or what it is exactly but I feel like it's possible that it happens because some of this memory actually stays and quoted in the heart so even though like a lot of times a person might not actually see what's happening to them properly but they know something Bad's happening so the heart is feeling like something bad is happening some of it could actually be encoded in the heart memory because the heart does store some memories and maybe a lot more than we actually know and I'm thinking that this could actually be like an adaptation because if the heart if the heart has the memory the heart can see the pattern recognition of of what it is that they're seeing I feel like we partly see with our heart so we see with our brain but the heart mind actually and the feeling can calculate if situation is bad for example so if a person again gets himself close to a pattern or a situation that this heart memory sees the heart immediately alerts right the heart goes and has a little rapid beat so in that way it's almost like protection from that thing happening again which you know because the brain doesn't store it rationally and logically and maybe it doesn't because whatever happened wasn't rational and logical it was fearful and terrifying it was to do with the feelings it was due to do with like one's humanity not to do with ones like linear memory process so in that way could be stored in the heart and maybe that's one of the reasons why a lot of this stuff is difficult to resolve it's not really it's not really in the rational brain process it's it's encoded more in the heart and I feel like it helps us maybe recognize something so we can escape beforehand and I feel like it's part of the fight-or-flight and you know maybe some of these patterns are already in our heart and that's why we know to jump away from certain dangerous animals and and that's pretty common to humanity it with a reflex but then some of us we have other reflexes programmed into us or experiences and a person that goes through psychosis or mania especially psychosis maybe has new patterns of fear programmed in their heart by reacting to things that weren't really there in physicality yeah they're they're inside and they're scary they could be sort of coming out of the heart or they could be just a way of kind of scaring our heart again and maybe getting the heart to fear certain patterns that are normal in society but maybe aren't so normal lik
