- Your brain uses less power than your refrigerator light?
- When you are born, your brain weighs about a pound. But by age 6, it weighs three pounds. What happens? Learning to stand, talk, and walk creates a web of connections in your head—two pounds worth!
- If you ironed out all the wrinkles in your brain, it would have an area of about two and a half square feet. It feels like soft butter.
- It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
- Your brain is more active and thinks more at night than during the day.
Last night as I was laying in bed, around 1AM, I was thinking. I was thinking about a lost object. Somewhere in the moving process we misplaced an attachment that goes on the side of a child's bed, like a bedrail. We purchased this attachment over a year ago, but since we've moved we haven't been able to locate the part that attaches the rail to the bed. We moved ten months ago and I have looked in every box possible in storage to find this crazy thing.
As I lay in bed last night, it hit me. I knew EXACTLEY where it was. It was UH-MAZING. I couldn't believe it. I laid there and tried to talk myself down, not to get so excited. I mean, what it if wasn't there? I couldn't wait until morning to see if my amazing brain was right.
Sure enough, as I hopped out of bed this morning I got on my hands and knees and looked underneath the bed. I opened up the zipper case that our co-sleeper is stored in and there it was. I was amazed. I couldn't believe the way my brain had worked. I couldn't believe that it just came to me. I was overjoyed! I was intrigued. I was in awe.
Wow, our brains really are amazing. On a funny note...when I was little I never could spell my uncle's name right. His name is Brian, but I always wrote Brain. I never could quite figure out the problem. I'm glad my amazing brain worked that out too...
Hahaha! This post is awesome! Do you know how many times I've done that?! I'll be in bed and have a total revelation about something I thought was long forgotten. The brain really is an incredible thing!
ReplyDeleteHaha! I'm so glad you were able to remember where the bedrail was! I liked the info about tickeling (after I read it I tried to tickle myself just to prove the point..hehe..what a goof)
ReplyDeleteGreat post, as usual! =)