How often do you forget stuff instantly?

[JasonK]

I'm one step above Memento. I'll frequently have a conversation and not remember any of it 5 minutes later.

[Misfire]

1) Always
2) Always
3) Always

[RacersEdge]

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OK, three scenarios here:

1) You are talking to someone. You introduce yourself. 10 seconds later, you realize you have no idea what their name is.

2) You decide to do something (grab a bottle of water, maybe) on the way out of the house. You realize you forgot something and turn around to grab it from your room. You forget your initial task and leave.

3) You are watching something on TV. Commercial comes on, you flip channels and watch something for a few minutes, then totally forget about the first thing you were watching.

Just curious, how many of you forget stuff like this, and how often?

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1. A lot - unless attractive girl.

2. Sometimes - but I'll almost always remember once I get to my car.

3. Sometimes - more likely, I watch Show 1, flip to Show 2 at commercial, flip to Show 3 at break of Show 2, then flip through Shows 5, 6,7,8,etc - then realize I liked not Show 1, but one of the others I flipped to, but can't remember which one.

[Brain]

1) Almost always. I can make it to about 30 seconds now though, but then...*poof*

2) More than I wish. This happens at work a lot.

3) I'm not a big flipper at commercials, but not very often when I do it.

[Case Closed]

1-4 happen a lot for me.

[kidcolin]

1) All the time. Before college I never forget a name and a face. Since it's been awful.

2) Occasionally, but not too often.

3) Not much.

4) Making a note to remember songs and never doing it: All the time. It happens to me a lot when I listen to college radio in the car. I hear something new, and I'll either remember the band's name or memorize some lyrics to google when I get home. Then I walk through the door, do my normal routine and completely forget. 4 hours later I remember I wanted the song, but can't remember any of the pertinent info.

[Sponger.]

I forget the names of people so much that I've just stopped listening when they tell me. I then realized that names are pretty meaningless so its not a big deal. I'd rather remember some good thing about the person or where I know them from than their name.

[Soul Daddy]

The most annoying of these sort of instances is when I call someone with a specific question or discussion point in mind, then after the requisite small talk I draw a blank. I know that I had something interesting in mind and it was the very reason I called, but the thought has completely escaped me.

[MicroBob]

Pretty much all the time on all 4 and I've always been that way.

A semi-related one is where I'm walking around looking for my car-keys or sunglasses or something and it takes me 1 or 2 minutes to realize that I'm holding them right there in my hand.

Yes, I'm really that dumb.

[gusmahler]

1-2 all the time. 2 is especially common if my wife asks me to do something. Seemingly 90% of the time, I'll forget it within a minute. When I think of it myself, it's not as common for me to forget.

3 used to happen to me a lot, but now I have a DVR, so I rarely even watch commercials.

4, I remember this one song where, everytime it came on the radio, I'd ask my buddy who sang the song. I didn't even realize I was doing this until a few months later (after asking him everytime we heard the song), he shows up with the CD in hand, complaining that I had asked him who sang that song at least 8 times.