Your nonna!

I guess it depends on what we're talking about:
If it's about trusting one's memory then sure, better to make sure and check the accuracy with some sort of external source.
If it's about not trusting one's own judgement when sleepy, anxious, horny, furious, under the influence of substances, having a panic attack, etc. Then it's just better to wait until one's back at whatever passes for normal or baseline before making any important decision.
Now if we're talking about serious mental disorders like hearing voices, visual hallucinations, or fake memories. I'd suggest looking for professional help. But I've heard that some people that struggle to tell what's real and what's just in their head use their phones to record whatever they're seeing, since if it isn't real it's not gonna show up on the screen, same goes for recording audio.

No one. Be wary I guess ._.

Fitting song if you don't mind roars. Because that means you don't really have to trust and define yourself with negatives either.

It's good to trust your brain. But the brain can only work under calm conditions. If you are overcome with strong emotions, those will cloud your judgement. Or if you drink alcohol, you blind your brain from working. So if you are somehow aware you are in these states, it's best to take a step back to think things more calmly.

Bump for solved!

Learn from your personal experience and trust this, that most often gives you the right answers/hints. And so in my case, though I highly value my mind and my analytical skills, at the very end the crucial decisions most often I do base on my intuition, because whatever the mind says, my intuition is almost always right. That's though, my personal case, for you this may be quite the opposite.

Maybe your brain in da past, by like having a diary on and seeing ur own perspective on some issues and such and/or well.. trusting someone else's(who u find smarter or like more experienced in the matter) brain but that's kinda a judgment u make with ur own brain and as such doesn't really fit in the whole not trusting your own brain thingy entirely and also Imo it's not that u shouldn't trust ur brain ever but more like having a doubt always on what your brain tells u and actively trying to seek new perspectives on the matter, ones u don't even maybe agree with on a basic lvl and looking at them with no prejudice and trying to see the angle that the ppl who have those ideas are coming from, that way while ur still doing as your brain tells u , u r reducing the pitholes that one might fall into when so very much is trusting of their own brain thingy .in the end I doubt its a good idea to trusting anyone else fully as their brain is well kinda fallible like urs and when stuff goes forky , u don't know what to do or how to react or fix the situation sooooo like the best one can do is to just to uh expand one's own perspective and uh be open to other brain's ideas on stuff they might be better at lol.

p.s. sorry if its incoherent and forky or not helpful much , I'm a bit potatobrained at the moment(as always) lol

Thanks for Skyrim! Trust no one. Check. めんどくさい。障害ない。Going always for the gut feeling can get your hefty rewarded....or in big trouble.

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Also, this too.

if it's good not to always trust my brain, whom i should trust, then??

trust me bro

Don't trust your brain, trust mine

Be like water. If you can't be like water, be like Mayanaise

Yes, I agree. Don't trust your brain. Trust your heart and your guts instead.

Don't trust your brain, trust the neurons firing inside your brain that make up your gut feelings ;)

also why are feelings located in the gut area?

Always trust your nose. The nose always knows.

Your brain only gives you your view of the situation. So it's accurate to some extent. Everybody is the main character in their own story.

It's not "don't trust your brain", it is "don't trust only your brain's first instinct/answer". In other words, always admit the possibility you might be wrong, try to look for confirmation elsewhere.

Even Google.

I think the main thing is, don't think you know everything. "Don't trust your brain" is badly worded advice. We kind of don't have a choice in that matter. Even when we second-guess our brains, it is, in fact, our brains that are doing the second-guessing. However, if we have a healthy understanding of our own fallibility, that we can be wrong, then we can put measures in place to make sure we're not just blindly trusting our own thought processes. Things like asking other people's opinions and/or thoughts on things. Looking stuff up. Sleeping on it. Confirming our ideas, thoughts, suspicions, etc. before acting on them.

I am much more likely to trust my brain, however, than I am to trust my heart. Never trust your heart. It's more deceitful than anything else and desperately wicked. Nobody can even know their own heart, much less trust it. It's dumb, and can't be trusted any further than you can throw it (which you can't because if you tried to pull it out and throw it, you'd be dead).

My point is - don't look at yourself as the source of all wisdom or knowledge in the universe. And never believe you've got it all figured out. We're only human. We make mistakes. Asking for wisdom, advice, and knowledge from others that you have good reason to trust is far better than just going it alone with your 3 or 4 pounds of gray matter. 2 heads are better than 1. There's wisdom in a multitude of counselors, and you (and I) can often be very, very, VERY wrong about pretty much anything.

First, we confirm. Then, we trust.

We should trust cats.

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Trust no one.

In short: everything about 'not trusting' brain/gut/whatever is talking about blind trust, full trust
Thats the kind that lest be sincere should NEVER happen
Not in ones self or your senses... nor anyone else really

If our senses and memory can distort things the same applies to anyone else, people make mistakes etc- so even someone you have the most reason to trust (ex: someones mother) could lead to error or even 'deception' by mistake.

But also... we cant really know trully anyone, not fully. Heck we cant know fully ourselves. Whenever someone shoots their schoolmates or is found to be a serial killer or whatever we see family and neighbours saying theyd never imagine... Someones true intents, or what they think etc cant ever be 100% sure

Of course we do trust and we should- the odd 0.001% of cases that 'fool everyone' arent worth not trusting anything or anyone.
And the same applies to our brains.
Its not because our brains are fallible that we should dismiss it all as sketchy or whatever

Blind trust is the issue and that is a great lesson- we should always take a step back, have in mind that 'we could be wrong'. Think things through, not be too quick to judge or affirm. But some extra thinking and additional evidence is enougth to remove any doubts.

My memory of day X many years ago is by definition at most 60% 'right on spot', but those 60% is what matters- do the color of clothes that day matter? Nah. Thats why the brain took no record and everytime we remenber it shifts. The core elements are almost always right anyway- and anything important or serious just ask someone else involved. The odds of both misrembering exactly the same is so low its safe to assume anything that matches is spot on

Whats the context? Is it a life or death situation, very serious? I double-tripple check. Most everything else the gut is fine...

https://youtu.be/txWWi2n76FI?si=W9ejGJ_mc1BL0cFM

The answer is simple: Trust none, not even yourself.

I work in mental health and am going to school for it too.

Your brain is what processes all the information about the world around you, and is your only way to know what you are thinking. How do you know when your brain is wrong? A common form of brain wrongness is called Cognitive Distortions. Errors in judgement or thinking that make sense because you trust your brain, but when measured against reality are skewed.

There are several types of cognitive distortions that I highly recommend checking out. So again, how do you know when your brain is wrong? Well its hard to tell. A good way of noticing is by having someone else point it out. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a common way of catching and resolving thinking errors.

Its weird to think that your brain can be wrong, but when it is wrong your brain can hurt you. It isn't your brain's job to keep you happy, your brain is supposed to keep you alive. If something gets mis-measured along the way oh well, you're still kicking right? Its ok to be wrong about things, we all do it all the time!

It helps to have a few people in your life that you can trust 100% to tell you the truth and have your best interests at heart.

Then you can listen to their brain instead of your own!