This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.
Whether or not you believe in them, you probably have ghosts that haunt you.
Not something sinister, but something that you just can't get rid of.
These ghosts are relentless, and they will make you rehash details from your past over and over again.
Hi there, Shankar and friends.
Hello.
Shawn Carr.
Hi.
Hi.
I was calling about.
Hopefully I sang it.
Regrets.
I've had a few, so I won't let list all of them.
My boyfriend of a year and I ended our relationship.
It's just looking back and thinking that I could have done better and I didn't.
All these things keep popping in my head of small things.
Maybe something I should have said differently or something I should have done differently in a particular conversation or on a particular event.
It makes me cringe with regret and shame.
I had an affair.