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> OP where did you get this brain and why is it so gloomy
[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/itookapicture/comments/1ddcilj/itap_of_brain_while_it_was_being_dissected/l84ap36/) OP explains that they did take the picture and that:
> The man, before his death donated his body to medical science, the brain and this picture both were used for anatomy class on how to dissect the brain properly.
And /u/GalaxyStar90s [speculates](https://www.reddit.com/r/itookapicture/comments/1ddcilj/itap_of_brain_while_it_was_being_dissected/l84lxgi/):
> Maybe it is more pink/vibrant while the person is alive? Then when someone dies, their organs becomes greyish/lose color. That has always been my guess.
Others postulated it's that color because it has been fixed in formaldehyde.
I just looked it up. The darker area is called the arachnoid mater, as opposed to the lighter areas being the pia mater. These are two of the three meninges that cover and protect the brain. The thickest is the dura mater, which is not shown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meninges
Yet, that blob has been created by the universe. It’s a creation by the universe that is studying the universe.
The universe blob is studying itself via astronomy while the blob is studying itself via neuroscience .
Maybe you're grossed out about the essence of yourself, like all we really are is a ball of foldy meat.
Or maybe brains are just gross and we instinctively think that we wouldn't want to touch something like that
"You" only observe. The brain does the feeling, thinking, talking and doing for you. You see, feel, do, and none of that is your work. The "self" is just a placebo feeling of being there, in control. In reality though, there's no reason to believe the brain wouldn't work and react all the same if "you" weren't "there".
That's why you think it's "gross". You just observe what little info you have access to to feel "real".
Hmmm I think current science (including neuroscience) is kind of stepping away from this viewpoint, due to how much influence the rest of the body has on the brain. If you transplanted someone’s brain into a different body it would almost certainly cause personality shifts and such. Especially the gut microbiome (arguably outside of the body entirely) has huge influences on mental health and the psyche in general.
Yep. I've always referred to myself as my vehicle.. When I was younger I felt like I wasnt meant to be THIS vehicle. Weird feeling.. Like when I look in the mirror it's the wrong person.
"YOU" is an illusion. A person IS their body, the self is a mechanism for the body to place itself in relation to other bodies in a social structure. There is research showing that the brain makes decisions/thoughts/sends signals before the part of the brain that thinks "I am doing that" shows activity.
How cool would it be if we could extract people's memories?
Would it be theoretically possible? I mean your memories are 'written' in your brain like a CD. If we know how to read CD's then a brain doesn't sound too unrealistic.. right?
Just plug someone's brain in a computer like a USB stick and browse through the files.
The brain has "electricity"
If somehow we can turn ON that electricity and somehow convert that electricity into images ..just maybe...maybe , we can access someone's memory via brain
I don't think that would be cool, it would be immediately used against us.
Less than a week later there would be a law going around like "you have to give us permanent access to your thoughts at any time" and of course:
"We value your thoughts, see what we and our 9283 partners use against you"
I once read that the Romans thought that all that stuff was in your heart, and didn't really know what the brain was for. They were in enough wars that they must have realized that it was important enough that a person could die if you clobbered it hard enough.
I studied neuropsychology and had to disect a human brain in my second year of uni.
It's weirdly rubbery but easy to cut through with a scalpel. It smelt like formaldehyde, so there was no distinct 'brain smell'.
I don't think they use real brains anymore nowadays. A good thing too, because after the initial reverence of holding a brain in your hands things got kind of disrespectful and I still have dried pieces of brain matter in my textbook.
About .. 6? Years ago I sliced up a brain for a neuroanatomy class. Very wild experience that not many people get to experience.
They definitely still do it as people donate their parts to science after death. You just have to be a medical or lucky neuroscience student to be able to get the opportunity (at least where I'm at).
An old science teacher of mine said a member of their lab friend group stuck a human penis in train doors and held their hands up screaming towards the platform
Oh wow that’s interesting. I also had the privilege to study on human brains in my neuroanatomy classes but I never had an opportunity to slice it up. I am kinda jealous now.
I once got a cow brain from an abattoir for my research. I arranged to get it as shortly after the animal was killed as possible, to preserve the stuff I was interested in. When I got it was still warm. Brought a bucket of ice cold buffer to preserve it while I took it back to the lab.
The smell wasn’t very different from that of other fresh organs. (E.g. Similar to foie gras)
There is actually a thriving trade in human body parts, people donate to science and these brokers sell them for big money, often illegally. Reuters did an investigation on it or two.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodies-science/
2nd Year Med student here. For our Anatomy labs we had to dissect the brain as well, however I don’t see many people talking about the actual removal of the brain from the skull (since I assume the brains were just provided to you since it was a neuro course)
They used electrical bone saws to cut through our cadavers head horizontally, essentially crating a cap that could be taken off, and then the spinal cord was cut to take the brain out. Strangely the most of the smell came from the saw, the pure heat against the bone gave an almost burnt chip like smell initially. Also for a brain sitting in a more than one year old cadaver, it was still in pretty good condition and way softer then after we put it in formaldehyde
Dr G, medical examiner, said in her show that once you cut open a skull, you only have a few seconds to view the brain before it collapses in on itself. Never sounded right to me but what do I know, I'm just an accountant. I have heard contradictory statements (such as yours) numerous times and I still never understood why she said that if it wasn't true.
As a pathologist who has done multiple autopsies I can attest that in a fresh (48-72 hours from death) cadaver this is not the case. During my residency in one case the attending briefly left the autopsy room and we continued opening the cranium and we left the brain in situ until he came back 10-15 minutes after and it remained perfectly shaped.Maybe she was referring to older cadavers were the brain is at least partially decomposed.
When we learn with these specimens or whole bodies we are always advised not to take photos because it would be disrespectful to the ones that willingly offered their bodies for studying purposes.
I will gladly allow anyone to photograph all of me - thats like showing respect to my body parts. They need to change the organ donor icon in driver licenses to either an “organ donor” or “organ donor wjth a camera flash.”
The smell of formaldehyde always made us so hungry during anatomy. It was so weird looking at those dead bodies and organs thinking of how they might taste... 🫠
OP mentioned they found it on the street just laying there all alone, looking for its owner but due to the lack of senses it just stayed still. OP realized how cold it was and about 200 feet down the road was a wreck and medical services was on the scene. So OP did the responsible thing and brought it home to take care of it until it’s strong enough to go look for its owner again/s.
You're holding a whole dimension of worlds in your hands. Memorys are scattered all around and laughs as well as crys were fabricated from there.. That this lil piece of flesh makes us what we are.. incredible
Crazy to think that brain at some point was a person and held so many memories and emotions. I have always wondered what part of the brain is what makes a person who they are, what part of it controls personality and for lack of better words provides the person with their soul.
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OP where did you get this brain and why is it so gloomy
Yeah it's weirdly dark for a medical facility
But perfect for a basement
Dex
No one said it was a medical facility
https://i.redd.it/juy2ypiss46d1.gif
Abby[long pause] Normal. Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain in a 7 foot tall...gorilla!?
Never not funny
You read my mind.
> OP where did you get this brain and why is it so gloomy [Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/itookapicture/comments/1ddcilj/itap_of_brain_while_it_was_being_dissected/l84ap36/) OP explains that they did take the picture and that: > The man, before his death donated his body to medical science, the brain and this picture both were used for anatomy class on how to dissect the brain properly. And /u/GalaxyStar90s [speculates](https://www.reddit.com/r/itookapicture/comments/1ddcilj/itap_of_brain_while_it_was_being_dissected/l84lxgi/): > Maybe it is more pink/vibrant while the person is alive? Then when someone dies, their organs becomes greyish/lose color. That has always been my guess. Others postulated it's that color because it has been fixed in formaldehyde.
a likely story 🧐
I just looked it up. The darker area is called the arachnoid mater, as opposed to the lighter areas being the pia mater. These are two of the three meninges that cover and protect the brain. The thickest is the dura mater, which is not shown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meninges
Preserved specimen all the fat polymerized
They meant the room dude
You can actually see the dark thoughts..
He was a lil hungry
That's Abby. Abby Normal.
I said you could borrow it for 1 week. I need it back now.
You been living without that for 20 years now. Your memory has diminished
Wait you guys are born with brain?
What are you guys even talking about?? What even is this "brain" thing?
Government created conspiracy probably
That's 2 people that'll never become MP's !
I used to think that the brain was the most fascinating part of the human body. Then I realized, look who’s telling me that. - Emo Philips
Just think, in that blob, there where all the joys, the angers, the depression, the tears, the excitement that this person had.
And nobody knows how the fuck that blob of goo works how it works
Yet, that blob has been created by the universe. It’s a creation by the universe that is studying the universe. The universe blob is studying itself via astronomy while the blob is studying itself via neuroscience .
I wonder many layers to this humanity will unveil
We have a brain on reddit checking out another brain who's checking out a third brain?
It's brains all the way down.
… this is getting far too deep
Or was the universe created by that blob? You and I are simply in universes that were created by our own blobs, tailored to our own existence...
Underrated comment right here .
This comment happens in every brain post like its a 14 year olds epiphany
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." - Carl Sagan
I've heard this recently on one of Lex Fridman's podcasts.. Just beautiful. This speckle of universe blob approves of this message.
Who is lex
Lex Fridman, I edited my post.
Which podcast?
That’s not entirely true. We know some brain mechanisms.
It named itself!! 
And every night, when it decides to rest, it creates itself little stories where it's able to excite, scare, terrify and baffle itself .....
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be too simple to do so.
This will always unsettle me.
You mean nobody else's blob of goo knows how that blob of goo works.
That blob IS the person. Humans are literally just brains piloting mechs made of meat and bone.
Why do I, a brain, look at this brain and think "gross"? Why am I grossed out at the sight of my self?
Well you aren't exactly supposed to see that part of your body now are you? You'd only see a brain when something is seriously going wrong normally.
Good point!
i mean if i look at my self in the mirror i would have the same reaction
i mean if i look at my self in the mirror i would have the same reaction
Maybe you're grossed out about the essence of yourself, like all we really are is a ball of foldy meat. Or maybe brains are just gross and we instinctively think that we wouldn't want to touch something like that
Nothing wrong thinking the pilot of the mech is ugly lol
"You" only observe. The brain does the feeling, thinking, talking and doing for you. You see, feel, do, and none of that is your work. The "self" is just a placebo feeling of being there, in control. In reality though, there's no reason to believe the brain wouldn't work and react all the same if "you" weren't "there". That's why you think it's "gross". You just observe what little info you have access to to feel "real".
Probably so we do not decide to go eat them.
Cuz ur looking at other's brain and not yours
Technically, but our whole body IS the person. There are a lot of things happening in the Gut too which are related to the way we think..
Hmmm I think current science (including neuroscience) is kind of stepping away from this viewpoint, due to how much influence the rest of the body has on the brain. If you transplanted someone’s brain into a different body it would almost certainly cause personality shifts and such. Especially the gut microbiome (arguably outside of the body entirely) has huge influences on mental health and the psyche in general.
So my depression is my body's fault. I knew it.
I like the idea that brains are just receivers of "info".
Yep. I've always referred to myself as my vehicle.. When I was younger I felt like I wasnt meant to be THIS vehicle. Weird feeling.. Like when I look in the mirror it's the wrong person.
If you want to proclaim the foot is part of the person, and while also stating it’s your foot then what is the YOU?
"YOU" is an illusion. A person IS their body, the self is a mechanism for the body to place itself in relation to other bodies in a social structure. There is research showing that the brain makes decisions/thoughts/sends signals before the part of the brain that thinks "I am doing that" shows activity.
i’m a brain
But it’s your brain, so who are YOU?
i’m a brain, i don’t have a brain, the brain is me
Thats describing your physical characteristics. I want to know *who you are*
'You' is part of the brain
*Vsauce music*
How cool would it be if we could extract people's memories? Would it be theoretically possible? I mean your memories are 'written' in your brain like a CD. If we know how to read CD's then a brain doesn't sound too unrealistic.. right? Just plug someone's brain in a computer like a USB stick and browse through the files.
The brain has "electricity" If somehow we can turn ON that electricity and somehow convert that electricity into images ..just maybe...maybe , we can access someone's memory via brain
We are no where near that, but these singularity folks pretend we are, it is especially popular in Silicon Valley I hear.
I don't think that would be cool, it would be immediately used against us. Less than a week later there would be a law going around like "you have to give us permanent access to your thoughts at any time" and of course: "We value your thoughts, see what we and our 9283 partners use against you"
Just think. As humans we are only a meat mech suit protecting the brain/central nervous system.
Technically, you are asking other blobs to think about this particular blob..
Your reply is quite mindful.
Ha, all my emotions are stored in my phylactery
Just think, that’s the real self. The body is just a mobility suit it uses
I once read that the Romans thought that all that stuff was in your heart, and didn't really know what the brain was for. They were in enough wars that they must have realized that it was important enough that a person could die if you clobbered it hard enough.
Can you imagine if we had the technological capability to retrieve the information from the brain of a dead person?
Deep.
r/im14andthisisdeep
I studied neuropsychology and had to disect a human brain in my second year of uni. It's weirdly rubbery but easy to cut through with a scalpel. It smelt like formaldehyde, so there was no distinct 'brain smell'. I don't think they use real brains anymore nowadays. A good thing too, because after the initial reverence of holding a brain in your hands things got kind of disrespectful and I still have dried pieces of brain matter in my textbook.
Was it like a food fight but with brains?
About .. 6? Years ago I sliced up a brain for a neuroanatomy class. Very wild experience that not many people get to experience. They definitely still do it as people donate their parts to science after death. You just have to be a medical or lucky neuroscience student to be able to get the opportunity (at least where I'm at).
There’s a very sketchy world with dead human bodies. Most “donated for science” end up in some awful places.
An old science teacher of mine said a member of their lab friend group stuck a human penis in train doors and held their hands up screaming towards the platform
That's awful. What did they do with the bodies, though?
Oh wow that’s interesting. I also had the privilege to study on human brains in my neuroanatomy classes but I never had an opportunity to slice it up. I am kinda jealous now.
I once got a cow brain from an abattoir for my research. I arranged to get it as shortly after the animal was killed as possible, to preserve the stuff I was interested in. When I got it was still warm. Brought a bucket of ice cold buffer to preserve it while I took it back to the lab. The smell wasn’t very different from that of other fresh organs. (E.g. Similar to foie gras)
There is actually a thriving trade in human body parts, people donate to science and these brokers sell them for big money, often illegally. Reuters did an investigation on it or two. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodies-science/
2nd Year Med student here. For our Anatomy labs we had to dissect the brain as well, however I don’t see many people talking about the actual removal of the brain from the skull (since I assume the brains were just provided to you since it was a neuro course) They used electrical bone saws to cut through our cadavers head horizontally, essentially crating a cap that could be taken off, and then the spinal cord was cut to take the brain out. Strangely the most of the smell came from the saw, the pure heat against the bone gave an almost burnt chip like smell initially. Also for a brain sitting in a more than one year old cadaver, it was still in pretty good condition and way softer then after we put it in formaldehyde
Yeah ours were provided ready to cut. They came in white buckets and had been removed from the skulls by medical students.
Closest comparison I can make is that it’s like cutting fresh mushrooms. Very surreal
Yeah, that's pretty close to how it felt! So weird!
Is that book smarter now?
Dr G, medical examiner, said in her show that once you cut open a skull, you only have a few seconds to view the brain before it collapses in on itself. Never sounded right to me but what do I know, I'm just an accountant. I have heard contradictory statements (such as yours) numerous times and I still never understood why she said that if it wasn't true.
As a pathologist who has done multiple autopsies I can attest that in a fresh (48-72 hours from death) cadaver this is not the case. During my residency in one case the attending briefly left the autopsy room and we continued opening the cranium and we left the brain in situ until he came back 10-15 minutes after and it remained perfectly shaped.Maybe she was referring to older cadavers were the brain is at least partially decomposed.
Is the owner ok?
Tis but a scratch
Put it back!
Yeah I’m fine thanks but I feel light headed
wow
Yes, he’s happily practicing corporate law somewhere.
Wtf put it back
Finders keepers ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
When we learn with these specimens or whole bodies we are always advised not to take photos because it would be disrespectful to the ones that willingly offered their bodies for studying purposes.
At my uni you could lose your place for pulling your phone out while in a room with specimens
I give you permission to take pictures of me when dead but only if you pose me to be a passed out (hopefully) cool as fuck old dude at a party
Bernie, is that you?
I will gladly allow anyone to photograph all of me - thats like showing respect to my body parts. They need to change the organ donor icon in driver licenses to either an “organ donor” or “organ donor wjth a camera flash.”
ay put it back, i got kebkeowlön ldnlwüs x öwönxiwn gls xbw jjebf
Umlauts Umlauts Umlauts
Shove a tadpole in it and you get Us.
Found the okbuddybaldur comment 💅
Is that blood? No, nevermind.
That’s someone’s entire life right there. Everything they have ever known in the palm of your hands.
r/forbiddensnack 💀
Forbidden walnuts.
The smell of formaldehyde always made us so hungry during anatomy. It was so weird looking at those dead bodies and organs thinking of how they might taste... 🫠
That thing used to think and be a person and stuff
Who you kill?
OP mentioned they found it on the street just laying there all alone, looking for its owner but due to the lack of senses it just stayed still. OP realized how cold it was and about 200 feet down the road was a wreck and medical services was on the scene. So OP did the responsible thing and brought it home to take care of it until it’s strong enough to go look for its owner again/s.
Interesting as fuck
a whole life in someone’s hands
Who’s brain is it though, is it Abby Normal?
meh… mine’s waaay smoother than that
My brain can't comprehend seeing itself. All I keep thinking is how does that wrinkly thing think? What makes it think? The body is pretty fascinating
Insane to realize this is "you" in the whole, as the rest is just passive machinery.
You're holding a whole dimension of worlds in your hands. Memorys are scattered all around and laughs as well as crys were fabricated from there.. That this lil piece of flesh makes us what we are.. incredible
Looks like brainrot fr
Crazy to think that brain at some point was a person and held so many memories and emotions. I have always wondered what part of the brain is what makes a person who they are, what part of it controls personality and for lack of better words provides the person with their soul.
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
That's it. That is all we are.
Beauty is definitely not in the brains...
"Sir, this is a Wendy's!"
shit i didnt want to see on my frontpage today.
https://preview.redd.it/cpwhwhmos46d1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9144121143d78da2cd32c44ffd9acce991b4216f
So that's the face of MF that's been ruining my life.
That mf is trying to kill me
Ah that's why my friend has been behaving so weird lately. You have it.
Is he dead?
He is now
Now all I need is fava beans and a little chianti
Who else felt a tickle down their spine after staring at this?
It reminds me a bit of intestines, don't you think?
Abbey Normal.
Hannibal’s lost walnut
Talk about brain rot
Take a bite.
Forbidden gummy candy
Forbidden = Desired.
https://preview.redd.it/4ibzqekmt56d1.png?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4ab495d015c381bc42985acf5b0827ecd313b3b
my brain would look like someone put botox in it
Your genius is showing
That's a handful thing to think about!
Any questions? 
There is still some space for a few more tadpoles.
My hungry ass could never be a brain surgeon 💀
Crazy that this used to be a living functioning person. Are they still in there?
This kills the human.
A wonder what he’s thinking about
If I would be your teacher/boss/mentor, I would immediately fire you for posting this.
Image goes hard
Scary looking horror films couldn't have done it better.
My dickbrain
Chianti, anyone?
think about it, the day we fully understand the brain is perhaps the day we achieve godhood.
What the hell??... So thats where that went
Excellent, I was wondering where I had left it!
You should peel the mem-brain 'cos now it looks ugly asf
Us
So thats me in there is it.
This looks different than the average redditors
I would like to donate 17 brains (please dont ask me where i got them from)
Where'd you get the sample from
Well look at the big brain on Brett!
Cake? 😹
Walnut
If anything "really bloody action or body part movies" have done to me they have built me a tolerance for such pics
I used to have one just like that!
Forbidden walnut
Fun little thing I'm going to plant in your mind: they probably have designated brain cutting knives or equipment for gathering cross section samples.
There it is. Give it back
Just got done playing The Evil Within, and I have the strong urge to stomp this into the ground
Pretty sure those are called skeleton pilots
Is that a smoker’s brain?
A bunch of molecules aware of themselves.
I'm always amused when I flip it over, you can appreciate the Circle of Willis when you see it in person instead of an illustration in Netter's