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Your thalamus is primarily responsible for receiving sensory information and then relaying it to other areas of the limbic system. At any one moment we are bombarded with vast amounts of information. We filter that information through deletion. Can you imagine what would happen if we didn’t have a filtering system to erase information? We would suffer sensory overload and very likely go nuts. The information is filtered according to our experience to date. My recent experience of buying of car illustrates how this works. I had never really paid attention to the cars on the road. However, in the car showroom, I was shown a brand new Volkswagen Beetle and instantly fell in love with it. I was amazed that I hadn’t seen this car before. I gave myself some time to think about whether or not I should buy it and what happened? I started seeing different coloured beetles everywhere. My new awareness of the Beetle changed the way I was filtering information.