Brain Explorers

When you sleep, daydream, or drift between being awake and asleep, your brain can build entire realities - images, sounds, and emotions that feel real, even when they aren’t. And here’s the mystery: this isn’t a glitch. It’s how your brain works.Some people can even become aware inside their dreams. Others use these strange brain states to spark creativity and new ideas. So here’s the question for today: If your brain can create worlds on its own… how does it decide what’s real?Let’s find out.

Today we’re discovering something incredible: your brain can travel through time.Even though time feels linear, your brain doesn’t experience it that way. Deep inside your brain, the hippocampus works like a time machine. It lets you relive the past, imagine the future, and understand the present - all at the same time.What’s amazing is that the same brain circuits activate when you remember something and when you imagine something that hasn’t happened yet. That means your imagination is like a realistic rehearsal for the future. But it also explains why our memories aren’t always perfect—sometimes the brain mixes real memories with imagined ones.So here’s the takeaway, Brain Explorers: when you daydream or remember, you’re not wasting time. You’re using one of your brain’s most powerful tools—its ability to travel through time.

In this episode of Brain Explorers, we're diving deep into the mysterious link between quantum physics and the human mind. Could the tiniest particles in the universe influence your thoughts, choices, and even your consciousness?From quantum superpositions inside your neurons to the idea that your brain might tune into a universal field of energy, this episode blends neuroscience, physics, and imagination to explore one mind-bending question: Are we just thinking… or are we quantum thinking?

This is my favorite episode of all. In “The multiverse in your mind - what if every thought creates a new reality?”, we explore the idea that every thought you have could be like a branching path into a new reality. The episode weaves together neuroscience, philosophy, and imagination to ask: If your mind could generate infinite possibilities, how might your thoughts shape which reality you experience?

🎙️ Hey everyone, this is Alma, and you’re listening to Brain Explorers. Today’s journey is about something we all do — forgetting. But what if forgetting isn’t a flaw, but a superpower? In this episode, we’ll look at why our brains choose to let go, how forgetting helps us learn, and why some memories are meant to fade.