When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning It Was Friday Analysis

As many psychologists suggest, the human brain is largely a product of its experiences from birth until death. In its conception until its conclusion, the brain comes full circle. It begins building itself up from nearly nothing and eventually degrades until it becomes nothing yet again. During its period of somethingness, it is an original invention, built by the unique experiences of the human it directs. As a by-product of both positive and negative experiences, the brain uses specific mechanisms to capture and understand the large stream of information it collects.
Conventionally, it is believed that the negative, extraordinary events cause the brain to knock people into psychological absence and that is true to an extent. Former Harvard Professor, Dr.Martha Stout, details this absenteeism as a result of traumatic experiences through the story of a patient, in her essay “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday” …show more content…
Encapsulated by his TEDTalk, Tristan Harris demonstrates time slipping away when he recalls his daily pattern of using his smartphone to check his email (Harris). Suddenly, it is twenty minutes later, after he scanned Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and his email twice in that order (Harris). You may face similar circumstances, such as going on your phone to simply check your text messages, although you forgot to put that meeting in your calendar and you haven’t checked your email in some time. You check your email and see a text notification pop up, while you answer the text you see that someone just tagged you in a Facebook photo. Of course, you must look at it. Who even tagged you? Abruptly, you snap back to reality and realize you need to get back to the activity you were previously doing, but soon enough you are back to your phone