tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33563998.post-25594772909381874402008-04-09T11:11:00.002-05:002008-04-09T11:16:43.543-05:00"Even if you try to clear your mind, say by listening to a song, you're making memories about that song," memory researcher John Wixted, chairman of the psychology department at the University of California-San Diego, tells The Union-Tribune.<br />The newspaper adds that, in his book The Odd Brain, anthropologist Stephen Juan writes that the average brain on the average day generates about 70,000 thoughts. Many of these thoughts - including those that never rise to the level of consciousness - become memories.Georgina Cannon LifeChanger Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03228655349515523346noreply@blogger.com