The beauty of associative links is best reflected in prose and poetry. Each phenomenon, action, object, and even a person involuntarily resembles something that has already been seen before, and a reminder of this emerges from the depths of memory. This is how the association mechanism works: everything that has found a reflection in our minds is interconnected in order to securely gain a foothold in memories.
Source of unexpected memories
The brain is a large filing of leaflets-images, each of which occupies a strictly defined place - the shades of experience refer specifically to this group of objects or phenomena. Where do flashy memories come from? They are driven by associative memory. For example, a lollipop will take you back in time to a park, a carousel, and the noise of cars will take you to a summer day when the music in your headphones suddenly stopped.
Associations as a professional tool
Craftsmen of many professions use the power of associative links. Marketers find a path to the collective unconscious with the help of tests that offer to identify analogies between words, sounds, colors. This is how hidden advertising appears, the necessary words of politics or characters from commercials are found, slogans are invented,logos and goes through everything that should force a person to a certain action.
Writers follow the path of marketers, using associative links in many directions. To link one episode with another, to reflect intimate experiences through the characteristics of objective phenomena or the portrayal of character on the example of perception. It is associations that make thinking deeper, faster, more sparkling. They are a clever assembly of thoughts, in which everything superfluous, explaining, is cut out of the chain, and the very juice, the concentrate of ideas, remains.
Psychology of the associative chain
Deep layers of associative connections are conveyed by a line from Dolsky's song: "My plane is a cross under my neck." Even outside the main text, she points to clear associations: baptism, fate, crucifixion, the end of everything, and each of these meanings really finds its way into the song.
Who does the use of associative links help? People who are trying to create something new, combining the old in an incredible way. Those who like to get to the bottom of the truth of the images of the films of Lars von Trier and David Lynch. Writers, actors, directors, physicists, mathematicians - everyone who knows how to organize the idea of reality into a simple and understandable formula of patterns.
The energy of associative links is most often destructive. It occurs if a person unconsciously envies someone, although there is no reason for this, during depression and immersion in self-digging, as well as when watching the news, which oftenappeal to people's fears to draw attention to the problem. Making them work on the side of the world is a titanic work. From time immemorial, storytellers of legends about heroes have been doing this, bringing up new generations of Russian heroes. American heroes with the prefixes “super” act similarly, helping to believe in themselves or justice in this world. The ability to find an association of your life with the fate of a successful person gives motivation. The association provides an opportunity to look at yourself from the outside, for which it is worth decomposing the present into self-perceptions, delving into the causes of the current state with a simple question: “How?”
