How Mental Narratives Are Formed in the Brain

  Mental narratives are the stories you tell yourself about what happens to you. In effect, you talk to yourself,  trying to make sense of each experience. This is your mind providing a logical and coherent structure to each event so that every detail has transcendence among your memories. The psychologist, Jerome Bruner, was the first to speak about the cognitive power of self-narrative. According to him, we give sense, meaning, and direction to each and every event and experience. Therefore, we’re our own writers who build our own stories. Somehow, we order the chaos, the surprising, and even the…