Everytime I am doing extended water fasting, I start remembering some very old memories, I don’t know if there is any scientific explanation for this. I am wondering if anyone has experienced the same thing before?
Unfortunately, I don’t know of any research on the topic.
Food tends to occupy a lot of mental space, and many schedule their days around eating. Removing that portion of your day leaves a gap that will inevitably need to be filled. It’s possible that you’ve unintentionally filled that time through contemplation which would explain the old memories resurfacing.
Forced me to think on thinks I’ve been avoiding on thinking about, and accepting that I’ve done them, can’t change that I’ve done them, and to just take it as part of my past and try to utilize the experience to avoid doing such things in the future. Haha that’s about as detailed as I wanna get with strangers online.
I get you, I think it comes from the whole “mental clarity” and “sharpness” people say fasting provides. There’s a reason people do this for religious besides health reasons. On day 3 and 4 of my fast I was thinking about embarrassing or bad things I did years ago. Idk if it fades over time though? Currently on day 13 and not living in “Mortys Mind Benders” anymore, but who knows maybe it will come back?
I completed a 7 day water fast on Sunday and I was looping bad thoughts/memories. I got severely depressed the last 2 days of it.
I don’t know if this will apply to you but I had some recent traumas I’ve been trying to heal from and while I was fasting I realized I haven’t healed. Mind you, I also did a dopamine reset at the same time as the fast so I didn’t have tv, social media, or the devils lettuce to distract me like I normally do. I think maybe by us removing a big part of our lives (food) it leaves room for the mind to explore other things we’ve been avoiding (potentially avoiding by eating, in my case).
I didn’t really know what to do about it and don’t have a lot of advice I just think that’s probably what happened with me. I hope going for a run helped you!
It’s called emotional d.e.t.o.x.i.n.g
Apparently, emotions and memories are stored in our cells. Thats why during a long fast they will be released and you will out-of-the-blue remember something that happened to you 25 years ago that you had totally forgotten about, cry at lengths then feel lighter/healed.