have you felt like your brain was being rewired?

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so has anyone experienced this feeling of "rewiring in the brain"?

i've had it happen twice that i remember:

1/ i was reading atlas shrugged by ayn rand. my head felt like it was really changing inside, a lot. finally i understood about providing business value. i made quite a lot of money soon after

2/ i did some specific training on social interactions and practiced reading body language and understanding how interactions work. my brain went through a massive period of change and everything changed for me socially. i had a lot more friends, no more meltdowns and became much more happy with my life. additionally it made it possible for me to successfully manage employees. i went through some periods where i had headaches as this process went on, i could feel things really switching around in my brain.

i got this one out of Michael Blastland’s book “The Only Boy in the World: A Father Explores the Mysteries of Autism “, which apparently someone posted here on WP:

"I am also not used to thinking about thoughts of other people," he says, "and find the notion of others' sentience counterintuitive ... At the age of twenty-six I abandoned the theory positing that I was the only sentient being in existence, and accepted the notion that other people had independent minds. I remember thinking how preposterous that notion seemed."

have you experienced major changes? do you remember what caused it?

Yes, early in my carreer as a patternmaker, when I decided to try to complete patterns mentally before doing any work in paper. (This eventually allowed me to skip the usual step-by-step process in paper and create each pattern piece in one step.) The cause was an insight that since I could do it in paper, perhaps I could do all the preliminary steps mentally. I had to really force myself to stick with the mental process at first; catching myself mentally running away before afixing each visual step and adding and afixing the next. I remember it made me sweat. It initiated an eventual ability to build visualizations. It still requires concentration, but it's a fluid facility now.

Yes!

I remember when I was much younger (around 12) I would make a lot of jokes (mostly imitating comedians from TV). If I made a joke that made people laugh I could literally feel my brain happily rewiring itself with the patterns/logic involved in the joke and the end-point of evoking laughter.

On the negative side, I remember when somebody tried to hurt me by making negative comparisons between me and another person. Over the next few days I could literally feel my brain rewiring itself with the new idea that people can be compared and that I should feel bad if I don't measure up. I wanted it to stop as I knew it wasn't a concept I wanted to learn, but there was nothing I could do.