The oldest region in the brain –the stem, resembling the brain of
reptiles, determining alertness,
regulating body processes
like breathing and heartbeat,
preceding mammals by
200 million years
Controls breathing, heart rate
and fight or flight mechanism,
instinctual and ritualistic impulses,
fundamental needs – survival and
maintenance, emerging from the
spinal column at the
base of the skull
Emotions - love, hate, fear, lust,
contentment, emanate from it;
sophisticated reasoning and
intellectual capacity for rational
thought were later added,
the reptilian brain overrides
rational brain components
My reptilian brain feelings are strong
overriding all rational thought, it snaps
at me if I do not serve its needs,
it needs constant emotional
stimulation sought in strange
perspectives on intellectual
information
Not fitting into sophisticated
mammal society, being irrational
completely, the crocodile bends
light rays to see a totally different
picture than that which other people
claim they can see…
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