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My new theory (that I really should research):

You know how people on psychiatric medications complain about how they feel groggy and can't think properly, etc., etc.?  And you know how if you take a test in the same room as you studied you will remember more associations?  Same with mind-state: drunk encoding means better retrieval when drunk.

Comments

[sassette82]

Interesting. Isn't depressed/optimistic more of a spectrum than an either or? Couldn't there be possibly infinite combination of emotion/retrieved information?

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Good point- I think I tend to notice it when it moves to the ends of the spectrum. And I can be a pretty polar person. So yeah I should try to pay attention to the middling emotions.

[magdajames]

First paragraph makes sense to me, and also seems to apply with other brain-body-chemistry-altering treatments like hormone therapies and significant nutritional changes. On the second paragraph, i don't know about the dichotomy issue. I've had more of spiraling and cyclical types of experiences. Maybe all in how we interpret ourselves.

I enjoy your entries, by the way.

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I'm continually amazed at finding so many things circle back on themselves or spiral around. Whatever "things" are.

And thanks, totally back at ya.