Question: How are memories stored in your brain?

Omur Tastan answered on 14 Mar 2016:

Oh, this is like the question of many centuries!!! Amazing question!
Out brains are fascinating machines! We still quite don’t understand how they function fully however wr know this much.
When you experience something, like going to a concert or a play. You see things, you hear things and may be get emotional, you like it or you are afraid of the content or it is sad. All this information stimulates different types of neurons in your brain. For long term memory, your brain makes a note of all the nerve cells that fired during that experience. It writes some sort of code so that when you grow up, and when you are telling your friends about this memory, your brain uses that code to retrieve your memories. It needs to remember to activate all those nerve cells so you can remember all the details.

The question is, how does our brain know to do this? Well, we haven’t quite gotten there yet:) This is called memory retrieval and it is a very well controlled and mysterious thing our brains do! Funny thing is sometimes we can’t remember them normally but the nemories will be hidden there somewhere. So that’s when people are hypnotised and taken back to their childhood by the help of a physchiatrist during a hypnosis session. Then they might talk about those memories.