SH319: 7. Metabolising Experience: How Experience Becomes Learning

Counter-Errorism in Diving: Applying Human Factors to Diving · Oct 31, 2026 · 12m

This blog looks at what happens between having an experience and actually learning from it, particularly when that experience is frightening or traumatic. Our brains constantly take in information, process it and store what is useful, allowing experiences to become learning that changes how we behave. The blog compares this to a block-building game, where information needs to be sorted and fitted into place before we can move on. Trauma can interrupt this process, leaving the experience unprocessed and creating a gap between what happened and our ability to understand it. The brain may then…