Research using brain imaging reveals remarkable similarities in the patterns of brain activity when we are remembering a past event and imagining a future one.

The same areas of the brain are activated during these 2 mental tasks, and researchers believe the reason for this is that we use memories to piece together an imagined picture of the future.

What this means is that as we develop the ability to remember the past, from around the age of 5 onward, we also develop our ability to reflect and imagine the future.

For most people, this ability to “Time Travel” in the mind is honed by the age of 9.

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