Im getting dumber

[Chaigidel]

I used to type in perfect sentences and never misspell words i could even construct cogent arguements better than I can now ...

Im 28 so im thinking the prime of your brain is like 20 -26 ?--plus dont do drugs kids they arent lying when they say it will mess you up :O

any thoughts on this ---more of the age affecting the mind thing--- i mean I know very old people who maintain a very high sense of awareness, but i feel like my awareness and ability to transfer thoughts is growing weaker with age--

[ajm317]

When I took psychology they told me that your mental capacities do decrease with age, and as a result physicists, mathematicians, poets, musicians and artists tend to do their best work in the early years of their career.

By comparison novelists tend to do better in the later part of their career, because they have more life experience to draw upon for source material.

[LoZz]

I used to type in perfect sentences and never misspell words i could even construct cogent arguements better than I can now ...

Im 28 so im thinking the prime of your brain is like 20 -26 ?--plus dont do drugs kids they arent lying when they say it will mess you up :O

any thoughts on this ---more of the age affecting the mind thing--- i mean I know very old people who maintain a very high sense of awareness, but i feel like my awareness and ability to transfer thoughts is growing weaker with age--

and it only gets worse as you get older.

your brain forgets things is no longer needs/uses. in school/college you have a high need for writeing and spelling, as you get old and start working that need gets less and less and your brain forgets! most people forget half the crap they learn in school because they never find a need for it


then theirs the fact your loseing brian cells, well its just downhill from now

[wilting]

Best thing you can do is keep your mind active by doing lots of crosswords puzzles and the like. Or get that brian training game. Unfortunately I despise word and number puzzles generally and am doomed to an early decline in my mental faculties.

[Dunecat]

Best thing you can do is keep your mind active by doing lots of crosswords puzzles and the like. Or get that brian training game. Unfortunately I despise word and number puzzles generally and am doomed to an early decline in my mental faculties.

Or screw it and smoke pot.

[Magic Man]

Or screw it and smoke pot.

True dat




Tho i might have started too early, haha. (16)

[Francisco Montana]

plus dont do drugs kids they arent lying when they say it will mess you up :O

Yep. The man speaketh the truth.

[victor.]

Yep. The man speaketh the truth.

and you speaketh from experience???

[Francisco Montana]

Unfortunately, yes.

The good news is I didn't do anything before I was in my mid-20s (after your brain has finished developing) and stopped shortly there after. But there is no doubt I feel my short stint with pot definitely had an effect that I still feel to this day (I'm 38).

I keep waiting for the effects to go away but they don't. I'm not saying I'm incapable of intelligent thought by any means. But there is no question I have trouble remembering names and such these days.

Hell, maybe it's just because I'm getting old. But, I can't help but to think Mary Jane has something to do with it.

What is truely sad is when you have a 13 year old experimenting with drugs and alchohal. That is definetly going to have seriously long-term effects that may never be over come. Sure you can get on the right track and really make something of yourself after. But you never will truely reach your full potential.

[LLXerxes]

This reminds me a lot of the book "Flowers for Algernon"... except you aren't doing weirdo Science experiments.

Try reading books and doing puzzles regularly. Or maybe you should try getting out and taking frequent walks or spending more time with friends. A healthy soul is a healthy mind (or something like that).

[Siblesz]

Bad memory is a good thing, in any case. I've learned this through good and bad experience. Sure, you have to deal with losing a lot of things, and never remembering anyone's name that you don't care about, but you'll also forget every single bad thing that happens to you in a matter of hours. You'll live happier, anyhow. The past will always be forgotten. Though I do think I have selective memory. I have the most accurate memory of some things, such as images, stories, people's personalities, etc; but I just can't remember names and numbers for the life of me. I mean, I can remember countless historical dates, but I don't know my own phone number. One whole side of my family suffers from memory loss and selective memorization, anyhow. My aunt knows five languages, but she's the most spaced out person I know. You need to repeat something five times to her before she finally remembers it. Seriously.

Now, to drugs... I know weed has affected me, and though some of these changes are negative, I view most of them as positive. It is good to be a man on the moon when you learn to live in reality. But first you need to learn how to live in reality. So smoke, and then stop smoking.

[VALIS]

The best way to boost your intelligence when it comes to grammar and spelling is to read lots and lots of books.Especially novels.
I don't know why but novels seem to help in this department more than any other type of reading material.

[enoch]

you can always train your mind, reading can't hurt, always take the time to think and paranoia can help (aids with the plotting)