. 🧠"Hello! I'm the Thalamus — Your Brain's 24x7 Call Centre" (A story from the core of your consciousness)
Hey there! Let me introduce myself properly — I’m Mr. Thalamus, but friends call me The Relay King, Captain Connect, or simply T. I sit deep inside your brain, cool, composed, and always buzzing. You know, people often think the brain is all about the cortex (those outer folds), but trust me, without me, that so-called genius would just be a confused mess of incoming signals. I'm the one sorting, filtering, forwarding, and fine-tuning everything that comes into your system. Think of me as the WhatsApp group admin of your entire nervous system — I decide what goes to the right group at the right time. 🚨 What Do I Do, You Ask? Touch, Pain, Temperature? Pass it to the Sensory Cortex! Vision? Route it via the Lateral Geniculate Body — no delays! Hearing? That's the Medial Geniculate Body’s job — music to your ears! Motor planning? I help the cerebellum and basal ganglia do the cha-cha! Even emotions and memory? Yep, I’ve got a little hand in that too. Honestly, I’m so overworked, ...