Hey, remember that guy?

I had a really profound thought......then I forgot it. I get most of my good thoughts while I am driving......but I never remember them until I get back in the car. I think that is why conventional wisdom is that you should study in conditions that are as similar to the conditions that you will face in your test(s).

I'm reading this book now, to just get me through to Harry Potter Day (July 16th). I have read a lot of interesting tidbits, but I'm interested in finding a book with facts presented somewhere in between textbook and this one. I guess it doesn't need to be dumbed down quite so much. But I guess I am getting something out of it, since I never really considered the fact that there are theories behind everything that we do that I just take for granted.

There are a number of theories as to why we need to sleep. The most popular being adaptive theory, conserving energy theory and restorative function theory. But no one actually knows why we need to sleep. I heard that a few years ago, but I'm still a little bit amazed at that. I can type on a laptop that is 1000 times fast then desktop computers were 10 years ago, but we can't figure out why we sleep (My preference is the conserving energy theory, it seems to make sense from a animal-wide evolutionary standpoint).

I found it rather interesting that (knowing the care that J.K. Rowling put into choosing names for her characters, this was intentional) one of the names from the founders of memory theory (the acts of memory, encoding, storage and retrieval were basically documented by these researchers) was Robert Lockhart. Now, as we all remember Guilderoy Lockhart was the villain from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets who performed memory charms on unsuspecting heroes and claimed there deeds as his own.

Well, I'm off. Stay safe.