Brain Muscles

You strain to lift something, you strain to think…
Muscles are what you're straining when you lift…
What do you strain when thinking?
Are there muscles in the brain?
Is it something to do with nerve innovation?

Please try and answer these questions, because I am not sure of the answer…

I think when you are straining to think, you are actually trying to make a connection or a link with another thought. So for example when you are trying to remember something, your brain is working hard to make a connection to something farmiliar. It is how the neural networks of neurons with related information are firing. I see it like a little string of firecrackers going off. Isn't it annoying when something is on the tip of your tongue or at the edge of your memory and you just can't bring it to the surface. Imagine how hard the brain of someone with brain damage and memory loss or alzheimer's disease must be working, always trying to remember something but can't quite get it.

ya, it always remindes me of mysql queries. you can have lots of data into a database, the more data you have the more time it takes to process it all. the stress on a server is it's processor, which is similar to us humans in ways..

sometimes i wonder if the mind remembers things as it sees them, but in a hybrid 2d-3d way. it seems when i think of specific things in dark rooms, i ususally 'see' the items in 3d, but in the direction i remember seeing them, almost in 2d. so perhaps the way you view something, changes the way you find it again. moving your head around thinking might make the correct neural pathway line up..