[Ducati] anatomy of a wreck (was New to list (Tony))

[John Filak]

>From: "mike major" <textike at gmail.com>
>Memory is a funny thing.  I had a really bad one in 66, the reason I
>have an artificial hip etc and at first I didn't even remember riding
>a motorcycle, or living in California or recognise my then wife.  Over
>time the memory returned right up to the image of the car making a
>left turn in front of me but I will probably never remember the actual
>impact.  I'm told that the mind tends to filter out things too painful
>to recall.  Perhaps some of the details of your actual impact were
>wiped from the tape, so to speak which makes it harder to analyze what
>happened.  Anyhow, glad to hear that you are working on it and hope
>you are on the road again soon.  Later, Moonbeam


There was a spot on HBO a couple of months ago about brain trauma.

The theory is that the brain takes several seconds to burn-in the memory of 
events, and maybe more to really cement it. We are not conscious of this as 
it is a continous process. When something occurs that interrupts the burn-in 
process, the event doesn't commit to memory. It's nothing at all lie the 
brain trying to filter, or anything like that.

Example: It's also why most people are lousy about rememebering names when 
in a social situation. You meet somebody, they say, "Hi, I'm Lenny", then 
then go straight into an engaging discussion about something. You walk away 
5 minutes later, and can't recall the guy's name. That's because the brain 
engaged the conversation so quickly after hearing the guy's name that it 
didn't have time to commit the name to memory. Same thing when in an 
accident whenever you "get your bell rung".

I'll bet Peter can relate to this ... dumps his bike, is immediately KO'd, 
and can't recall what happened. There simply wasn't enough process time 
before the lights went out.


John Filak
Potterstown, NJ, USA

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