Okay, so I did more research on this Dark Energy in the brain and scientists have found that inactivity in the brain is very high. When the brain is active, it only increases 5% from inactivity. This means that when we think our brain is at rest, it's actually still working very hard.
The article I found states: All the substances in the universe we can see and interact with—all this together makes up less than 5% of the universe, with dark energy and dark matter at 74% and 23% respectively. In the same way, all the brain activity we are aware of—conscious thought—makes up about 5% of our total brain activity. Just as background energy in the universe is predominent, so is background energy in our brains. Dark energy is thus a fitting term for this phenomenon.
The middle of the article goes further to asking questions about attention spans. How long do we pay attention before our minds start to wander off? What if the scientist saw 30 seconds ago that your DMN (default mode network) was shutting off your brain’s conscious area, thus telling me that you will lose focus soon—about right now?
These are a lot of questions that may not show up in my script. BUT I think it's important to try and figure out if there needs to be a trigger for Wendy to remember her mother OR...maybe Wendy's so smart that her mind is constantly wandering off. Maybe she gets bored when other people talk, so her mind goes somewhere else. The big question is, how much control does Wendy have on her memories? Yes, she can try to remember the same ways we real people try to remember things. But how about those memories that just pop into our minds? The ones we may not be able to suppress? The ones that are triggered? The ones that aren't?
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