What Happens To Your Memories After You Die?

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what happens to your memories after you die

 

who could forget their first time biting into a pizza bagel the taste of that delicious morsel will stay in my memory forever but what will happen to that memory after I die it may help to first understand what memories are your brain contains around 100 billion neurons that communicate with each other across gaps called synapses using proteins and chemicals called neurotransmitters a memory is formed when certain proteins like a KT and C am k to strengthen the synaptic connections the formation of long-term memories takes time and occurs over stages a process known as memory consolidation once complete the neurons involved in the original experience become a fixed combination to help you remember the entire event from sound to taste but over time memories can alter or fade scientists have found that memories are malleable and can change during recall or from outside suggestion and as we age certain types of memories like the association between two things or the recollection of specific details diminish researchers think that this may be due to the fact that the hippocampus shrinks as we age which is the region of the brain that stores these types of memories compared to the other organs your brain requires much more energy to function that is why it's the first organ to fail or become irreversibly injured when the heart stops pumping such as during cardiac arrest the first part of the brain to go is the hippocampus which plays a big role in memory storage if heart function isn't restored the entire brain will shut down in just four or five minutes but just three minutes without blood flow leads to brain injury that will progressively get worse and eventually become irreversible even if the person is resuscitated or brought back to life that is why many survivors of cardiac arrest suffer from memory loss even years after the event in a 2009 study of cardiac arrest survivors treated with hypothermia to protect brain function one-third had moderate to severe memory difficulties and nearly half had mildly affected long-term memory measured by the River Mead behavioral memory test but a number of cardiac arrest patients have reported memories of near-death experiences that occurred after their heart had stopped beating and they were considered clinically dead in one study 40 percent reported having awareness during this time and in another ten percent reported memories of this period this may be caused by a surge in electrical activity in the brain after death a 2013 study in rats found that within the first 30 seconds after death by induced cardiac arrest they displayed neural patterns similar to a highly aroused brain though this doesn't necessarily mean the same thing occurs in humans and many neuroscientists believe that near-death experiences are born from the stress of the cardiac arrest and our memories of the events before death not after so most likely after we die and our brain shuts down for good our memories will simply fade away like a deleted computer file anyway I hope my last memories are all of the pizza bagels I've eaten no need to think about bad things yay so do you have an earliest memory that you can remember maybe a favorite memory of yours if you're comfortable with sharing it let me know in the comment section below curious to know what would happen if you