Victims of brutal crimes often had very distorted memories of the event. The part of the brain that took over during an attack was the part of the brain where animal instinct lives. Fight and flight, self-preservation. It was not the orderly, logical, problem-solving, list-making part of the mind. There was no time to think and reason, only to react. All energy went to survival, not to making plans and storing memories.
The Boy by Tami Hoag
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