People believe that the thoughts and ideas that come to them are somehow authentic and relevant. However, most of the ideas that a person has are memories that are triggered by what they are experiencing.

For the average person the perception that triggers the most memories on a continual basis is vision. Vision is our predominant sense. Over 65% of the average person’s brain space is dedicated to the sense of vision in one way or another.

We see through our memories. In other words, our brains decode the data received from our eyes to it meanings that seem to make sense.

As a child your brain learned that illustrations often depict people, places and things. Even the most realistic painting is somewhat abstracted since it is two dimensional. Your brain learned how to use its memories so you could see art.

The first time you saw some of Picasso’s highly abstracted faces, you experienced the phenomena of your brain decoding visual memories, including using the information it had about how to see art — to see in a new way. Your brain can now can use that new way of seeing, those memories of abstracted faces to decode more visual experiences that you encounter every day and also easily see more abstracted art.

Normal adults are experts at decoding visual information. Yet, there are often tag-along ideas and emotions that are attached to our visual memories that we fail to notice.

A baby’s eyes do perceive after birth, however it takes a couple of weeks of the baby gaining visual memories before the brain begins to have enough memories to decode the impressions . After about two weeks the baby can recognize the basic caregiver visually to a degree.

As the child grows more visual memories are gained. Along with these memories of shape and color are memories of emotions and decisions. For instance, someone who has been mean or taunting to a baby is not only recognized but as a part of that memory the babe recalls that she does not like this person!

As adults we continue to experience these undercurrent or subconscious data of our likes and dislikes, repressed emotions, linked memories, etc. as we navigate through our days that are filled with perceptions of people, places and things. However, usually we are not actively aware of this undercurrent of emotional memories and decisions — we are just effected by them.

When we are aware of our memories, we try to steer clear of people, places or things that stimulate our memories of emotions that we wish to avoid. For instance, I lost a baby within a couple of days of his birth due to his medical problems. For several years I avoided the area of a stores that held newborn baby clothes because thus reminded me of my loss.

But avoidance is usually not possible. Adults have so many memories that are tagged to simple shapes colors, sounds, etc. If we live or work with difficult people soon that environment will have many negative or unwanted emotional memories that are subconsciously triggered by the objects associated with that location.

This partly accounts for why a vacation that involves a real change of scene — especially going somewhere new, or the first days on a new job, in a new living environment, or even going to a new restaurant can life our moods. Of course, we also gravitate to places and things that are associated with good memories. We all have mementos and personal treasures that are associated with people we love, our achievements or experiences that we recognize make us feel good.

Tag-along thoughts and emotions can be misunderstood by a person to be relevant or to somehow belong to them at the moment. This is a mistake that can have many repercussions, especially when the thoughts or emotions have negative content.

Some people continue to experience thoughts and emotions that are unwanted because they do not know how to let go of them. The first step is to recognize that any negative emotions or unwanted feelings that have no apparent basis at the moment may simply be subconscious memories that are really irrelevant but were triggered by sensory perceptions.

If you suddenly feel a negative emotion for no apparent reason ask yourself three questions:

1. “What emotion am I feeling?” (Use whatever word or words pop up from your subconscious, such as, “angry”.
2. “Did something in my environment cause me to have this feeling of__________?” (If yes proceed to #3)
3. What in my environment caused me to have this feeling of _________?”

Simply looking at the object and acknowledging the memory will bring relief. This will also put you more in charge of your mind, rather than being the effect of your subconscious perceptual memories.

Emotions are energy. Scientists have shown how though and emotions are energy and produce energy since the early experiments at Yale University over 30 years ago.

A great deal more relief from unwanted emotions that are triggered by common visual perceptions is now easily and effectively available by simply training your brain to see in a new way, called Awakened Vision. You can learn to actively see more of the energy around you through art images that depict more energy. Your eyes already perceive this energy. Your brain generally fails to decode the energy as it seems to be irrelevant since the energies are everywhere always. What we perceive as matter is simply more condensed energy.

Since emotions are energy the brain learns to discard this emotional content of memories it uses to decode perceptions, once you can see with Awakened Vision.

To learn how you can gain more control of visual memory, and discover how you can be free of unwanted and usually unconscious visual triggers of unwanted or negative emotions through Awakened Vision and Judy Rey Wasserman’s Post Conceptual UnGraven Image Art SEE The Art of Seeing The Divine.

Recent discoveries in neuroscience and medicine reveal that ninety percent of the perception of vision occurs as the brain decodes the impressions of light received from the eyes. All that the eyes can see is impressions of light. The brain decodes these impressions by comparing them to memories of previous impressions.

When a person’s brain is injured in an area that is used to store a specific kind of visual memory the person is rendered blind in relation to that type of visual perception. For example, one brain injured man cannot see and recognize faces, although he can see bodies, things and landscapes. He recognizes his family members based on his other perceptions.

Science has also revealed that sixty percent of the average person’s brain is dedicated to the perception of vision. This leaves the senses of hearing, touch, taste and scent, plus other mental functions to the rest of the brain. Vision is our most dominant sense.

The ability to decode information and most especially visual information is related to intelligence. While prescriptions for corrective lenses allow the eyes to clearly perceive, they do not increase perception or ability beyond the intake of raw data. What is most important is how your brain decodes and uses that impressions of light received from the eyes.

The brain can continue to grow, and people can actually become more selectively intelligent throughout life. Selective intelligence means perceptual and cognitive understandings and mastery in a specific area or subject. Thus, Einstein was a genius when relation to physics and mathematics, but he was far less brilliant in other areas.

The brain can continue to grow, and people can actually become more selectively intelligent throughout life. Selective intelligence means perceptual and cognitive understandings and mastery in a specific area or subject. Thus, Einstein was a genius when relation to physics and mathematics, but he was far less brilliant in other areas. While challenging our minds through new ideas, puzzles and brain games, reading, hobbies, etc. can help us maintain and even grow our brain’s functions (and selective intelligence) there is only one way to growing one’s visual intelligence is only possible through new visual stimulus or experiences. Ironically new visual understandings and knowledge are based on prior visual memories.We only experience seeing what our prior visual memories enable the brain to decode into meaningful data. Apparently there is a tipping point of visual memories that allows something to be easily seen and recognized. Thus a person who is first exposed to something or someone truly needs multiple visual exposures in order to better see the person, place or thing.

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We only experience seeing what our prior visual memories enable the brain to decode into meaningful data.

We all know that when we see people often they are easier to recognize. When we have a new model of a gadget, such as a cell phone, it takes a period of time before we are comfortable with the new model. During that period we are creating and storing memories that our brains can the use. When we have enough memories for ease of perceptual decoding we feel comfortable.

A person with many kinds of visual memories can actually see more because have more visual references in their memory. The more we move out of our comfort zones to experience people, places and things that are new, the more we expand our comfort zones.

In industrialized society we are bombarded with images at a rate that is unprecedented in the history of humankind. In one day an average middle class middle aged urban dweller sees more new and vastly different images on screens (such as PCs, TVs and Cell phones), on billboards and signs, in printed media, and in store windows and on populated streets than a village dweller in an undeveloped country might see in a year.

Both the urbanite and village dweller in an undeveloped country may have their eyes open for roughly the same amount of time, yet the urbanite’s brain has adapted and has developed differently than the brain of the village dweller. The urbanite has greater visual intelligence and is able to decode more, and visually comprehend new information faster as it is more experienced.

Studies have proven that visual exposure to a subject produces more recognition. However, the best kind of exposure involves active looking, the kind of looking you are doing now in order to decipher this text. Contrast this with the kind of looking one might do as one hurries along a street, focuses only on one’s forward path and purposefully ignoring much else—there is not much conscious deciphering or inquisitive involvement..

A hobby such as bird watching benefits the brain as it involved focused visual learning and attentiveness. People attend games to watch fast paced sports on a regular basis see nuances and understand movements that casual fans miss. However, when one watches on a TV, especially a large screen TV the focused factor is lost as the camera actually shows one where to look, and viewing is visually more passive.

We can purposefully visually train out brains at any age. In fact, visual brain stimulation, including games helps to slow and even reverse the brain’s aging process. Museums where one is visually stimulated through new sights are wonderful exercise studios for the brain and if a person actively focuses on and investigates the art or items displayed.

For the average healthy person fitness needs to include brain fitness. The fastest and most effective way to improve the brain is through focused visual stimulation. This means active looking, which is focused and inquisitive. The more we learn, especially visually, the more knowledge that we can apply, the more our brains actually grow by creating memories and links and so we become functionally smarter.