How many gigabytes do you think your MD would take up?

[♥]

interesting question but, have you ever really realized how much information we have to process just to make up one daydream or scenario? Such as the setting, scenery, dialogue, characters, character appearance, etc..

If you could load your brain up to a computer and see what information you had stored, how much do you think MD would take up?

[Dani]

I love this question! I didn't really know how much a gigabyte was, so I did some research. I found out that a movie takes up about 2.5 GB, so I'm trying to figure out how many movies my dds would probably take up. I think it would be about five and a half, which might not be anywhere close, but it's my best guess. So do the math and you get 13.25 GB. Which is more than my ipod holds. That's a lot of daydreams. ;)

[M Hunter]

I think I would need to install a few terabyte hard drive to upload the many many daydreams over the last two decades of my life. My daydreams are incredibly vivid and not just in audio and visual but with all 5 senses. I think I would also need a new processor, RAM and graphic card too otherwise I'd blue screen that computer in seconds :P 

[Francisco]

The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem. You might have only a few gigabytes of storage space, similar to the space in an iPod or a USB flash drive. Yet neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes). For comparison, if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows. You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-memory...

So DD might take up from many dozen terabytes to a few hundreds. Quantity depends on how much people daydream and how many different dd they produce.

Though I don't think dd generates lots of information in the brain because it is (in most part) a product of the information that you received from the exterior ; so normal (or "exterior generated") memory and "dd" memory might overlap in memory (supposing that - theorically - memory defragments information).

[Wish Upon A Wish]

I have this one, really long storyline, and I repeat scenes a lot so I'm not completely sure. Also, the higher quality a video is the more space it takes up, but if we go for Dani saying an average movie takes up 2.5Gb, ignoring repeated scenes, could be maybe a hundred Gb? And just for the main storyline, too, not all those extra things I DD, or the stuff I fantasized about when I was really young, before my main storyline. I guess. I'm not so good at guessing this stuff, though.

[Eretaia]

My daydreams are actually:

- quite simple

- a scene in my head does not last for too long and almost never has a conclusion

- extremely repetitive and actually not very detailed in setting

It's emotional part that's detailed for me.