How often do you forget stuff instantly?

[mason55]

#3 is very common for me. I can get interested in almost anything on TV, so if I switch from one show that was interesting but I didn't really care about to another that is interesting but I don't really care about I almost always forget about the first one.

#4 is pretty common for me, sometimes it will happen 5 or 6 times over the course of a couple of days.

#1 is almost never because I try really really hard to remember people's names.

[Aloysius]

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4) This number used to be in the 90% range until I got my Treo. Now I make Task entries to remind myself to do silly things like this.

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I do this also... but I really feel like the existing technology should provide us with a cheap, elegant solution to this problem...

-Al

[amplify]

Last night, I spent 2 minutes trying to think of President Lincoln's first name.

1) I am horrible with names. Thank God for "Hey There!" and "Sup Bro?"

2) I often find myself in a room and have no idea what I am doing there. Also, I start telling a story and halfway through I realize that I have no idea what my point is.

3) I am amazing at remembering what is on simultaneously on 47 different channels, what's most likely to be at a good part where animals attack somebody's crotch, and what I should skip because of lack of boobies/swords/zombies.

4) I now keep moleskines (www.moleskine.com) and pens everywhere. I jot down reminders when I think of things to write, letters, music, my little poems and so forth. I have them in my car, in my pocket when I go for walks, by my bedside. Otherwise, I would never remember anything.

I think that this is all a product of my mind getting sloppy. I have resolved to do something about it, and I will be attending a 10-day Vipassana (also known as Insight) meditation course in July (www.dhamma.org). 14 hours a day of concentrating on your breath to the exclusion of all other activities is said to really focus the attention.

I am 37, and shouldn't be losing my mind just yet. I am fighting to get it back.

[4_2_it]

The first two happen all the time. I just chalk them up to 'senior' moments. I don't remember ever encountering the last situation.

[Benholio]

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All,

Here's a somewhat related #4.

4) You hear a song on the radio in your car or in a movie or at a bar. You think, I definitely need to get that song, I'll look that up or buy it when I get home. A few weeks later when you hear the song somewhere else, you remember you meant to get it.

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This happens to me all the time. I remember maybe 10% of the stuff that I tell myself I need to look up the next time I am at a computer. The worst is when I am in my car for some reason.

[maryfield48]

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All,

Here's a somewhat related #4.

4) You hear a song on the radio in your car or in a movie or at a bar. You think, I definitely need to get that song, I'll look that up or buy it when I get home. A few weeks later when you hear the song somewhere else, you remember you meant to get it.

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That happens to me constantly. Songs on the radio, books reviewed in magazines. So I started to jot memos to myself in my PDA.

So now I forget that I have a memo in my PDA with a few songs & books that I want to buy.

[Isura]

1) Quite often. I don't immediately forget, but usually in 2 hours or something I can't recall it.

2) All the fing time. This is very annoying.

3) Never. I only watch a handful of channels, and just rotate through them with the favorites button.

[Isura]

A bit unrelated, but when my GF visits and we take her car out, without fail I always go past the visitors parking spot. This is probably a different type of memory in our brain.

[Butcho22]

Way too often for all three.

Yay pot!

[Duke]

1. 100% of the time. I'll have to ask them later if I actually care at that point what their name is.

2. Fairly often. I'll be 60 miles away wondering why it's so bright and then remember that I forgot my sunglasses.

3. Never. I never was really into TV, and never just "watch to watch." If I didn't only turn it on when I really cared about the programming, I could see this happening a lot.

4. There's this piano song that I still don't know the title of that I hear periodically in casinos. It's very recognizable, but it's not like "the entertainer" or anything from the butch cassidy soundtrack. I always mean to memorize the tune so that I could hum it to someone more knowledgeable, but always forget it. Think: HM HM HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMM