@asterionwealth 1/ Alas, I think you're correct. I've experienced it first hand--when I was 21, I started getting "Cluster" headaches. When I got the first one, I really thought I was having an aneurysm and was going to die. When I was diagnosed with them, my doctor told me they were the
@asterionwealth 2/ worst pain a man could feel (childbirth being the worst) and that they used to be called "suicide" headaches because more people with them killed themselves than the normal population. My point is that after a cluster period went away, I would realize there were huge swatches
@asterionwealth 3/ of time that I essentially had no memory of--I would look at my journals and see entries I had no active memory of making. Mercifully, I stopped getting them in my 40s, but it certainly made me more empathetic to people who had gone through horrible physical pain. I think
@asterionwealth 4/ many of these quirks of the brain are probably left over artifacts of things that at one time were evolutionarily useful, but we need to be as alert to them as we can be, as being unaware of them seriously disadvantage our ability to improve our mental models.
