Dr. Tabatha Barber explains why your brain can't tell the difference between what's actually happening and what you're remembering, imagining, or worrying about. Your brain treats imagined scenarios the same way it treats real ones.
It's interesting, the brain, this really good research that shows that the human brain does not have the capacity to discern between something that's actually happening in real time and something that we're just remembering or imagining. So it doesn't even have to be something that has actually happened. It can be something that we're just worrying about or ruminating about. Your brain can't tell the difference between those things.
