Our Brain Uses a Not-So-Instant Replay to Make Decisions - I think this is pretty interesting research, it’s long been known in sports that replaying physical movements in your head is beneficial to real life performance - I gets some memory benefit from so called replay personally however I find it’s also often really annoying because it’s not particularly selective, at least when it happens while awake, so I find thoughts that were a waste of time back in my head via replay and then I actively have to refocus back into something more worthwhile - it depends on the context though sometimes the looseness and innacurracy of replay can be beneficial creativelywww.scientificamerican.com #