Filling Your Brainicle

Travel and new experiences broaden the mind. Imagine a kid growing up in a box indoors with no windows, with nobody to talk to, no books, no tv, no interaction with anything except bland food pellets delivered every four hours through a slot in the wall. What would he dream of? What would he spend his day thinking about? A grey room with no sounds and no colours? (Interestingly, my brother did spend a few years in such a situation, but he eventually escaped and he's now quite normal !)

Now let's examine Dougie. He's spent his whole life loitering around a few northern suburbs of Perth, never leaving the city, never leaving the state, never leaving the country. His life is routine and predictable and he's always either at work at Woolies collecting trollies, or playing on his Playstation. His dreams and imaginings will be infinitely richer than the kid in a box, but he'll still be limited to his little world, and what he's seen on tv or learnt at school.

And for our third test subject, let's analyse Talitha. She flies overseas whenever her savings allow it, and she never returns to the same place twice. She's drawn to novel experiences, and is curious about different cultures. Even when she's at home, she can instantly revisit one of her travel destinations at the speed of thought - her brain has a reconstruction of various exotic locales and she can imagine herself being there without difficulty.

Three brains similar in terms of biology, but so different in terms of what they hold.