How bad has your memory got?

homerun_homer · 23-01-2009 11:03am #1

Just been thinking about this and am wondering how many people's memories seem to be going downhill. I can remember the most small and inane little details but most of the time I find myself telling someone a bit of news or gossip that I have already told them the day before. It's as if I can't remember who I told what to too often.
Call it old age, I'm only bleedin' 27, or blame alcohol (I believe it is) whatever it is it's annoying. Should get myself a DS and the brain training game.

loz · 23-01-2009 11:04am

I think it starts on Sunday - a double episode

walshb · 23-01-2009 11:06am

I have a very good memory for statistics and records etc etc; but at times, I have went upstairs to get something and in the time it took me to get up the stairs, I had forgotten what I went up for. Freaky! I have too went to the shops to buy something and got there and forgot what it was I had to buy. That's why the 'reminder' option on the mobile fone is so
important to me. I use it religiously!

Ross_Mahon · 23-01-2009 11:06am

Photographic memory, Its only the not so important things that don't need remembering, Like cleaning the house or walking the dogs :rolleyes:

Quazzie · 23-01-2009 11:07am

I read that but forgot the start when I got to the end.

WTF?? Where am I??

corkhero · 23-01-2009 11:10am

I have a very good memory with needless information.

like i can tell the minute and scorer of cork city goals for the last 5 years.

but then if i get asked to do somethin, i might totally forget it in 5 minutes.

Quazzie · 23-01-2009 11:14am

corkhero wrote: »

I have a very good memory with needless information.

like i can tell the minute and scorer of cork city goals for the last 5 years.

but then if i get asked to do somethin, i might totally forget it in 5 minutes.

How many Cork City goals can there be??

Steve · 23-01-2009 11:22am

My memory is terrible, especially when I meet people for the first time.
I forget their name 5 minutes later.

Alcohol probably has a lot to do with it.

az2wp0sye65487 · 23-01-2009 11:26am

I don't remember

ScumLord · 23-01-2009 11:32am

4gb

Shiny · 23-01-2009 11:34am

My memory is really bad these days.
I use google calendar to remember everything for me. :cool:

I just put in an entry every time someone tells me I am
meant to be somewhere are a certain time.

By the time I get Alzheimer's, I hope to have computers
remembering everything for me.

homerun_homer · 23-01-2009 11:34am

SteveC wrote: »

My memory is terrible, especially when I meet people for the first time.
I forget their name 5 minutes later.

Alcohol probably has a lot to do with it.

Crap... that reminds me of the time where I brought a gf of 2 months out to say cheerio to a workmate who was going to Oz. I was surprised by someone else I hadn't spotted popping up saying hello to me and I introduced them and forgot for a second my ex's name. That was the longest second of my life.

stovelid · 23-01-2009 11:35am

Still good, but as I get older, there is just stuff I couldn't be fucked remembering.

kf1920 · 23-01-2009 11:36am

Good Idea for a thread, my memory is perfect, seriously

kf1920 · 23-01-2009 11:37am

What an original thread, i think my memory is perfect

Limerick Bandit · 23-01-2009 11:44am

What was the question again

Reganio 2 · 23-01-2009 1:28pm

I remember Jimmy Carr's stand up and he posted an ad in the newspaper
"Does your memory let you down
and what about your memory is it letting you down
Call 000---- quick before you forget"

Was also the time he posted in the paper
"Have a speech impedamint? Call D-d-d-d-d-d-dave"

My memory is shocking at the best of times.

Canis Lupus · 23-01-2009 2:11pm

I tend to be more annoyed by forgetting all the little bits and bobs I learnt in school. Like my geography/history etc has gone to hell etc. I then keep meaning to sit down and relearn it all but never have the time/motivation to do it.

antodeco · 23-01-2009 2:27pm

The reason your memories are so bad is due to mobile phones. They screw up your short term memory. Thats why after a while you can remember something you were meant to do. Moves from short term > long term.

Tiz me · 23-01-2009 2:44pm

Alcohol's the answer but I can't remember the question

Fizman · 23-01-2009 2:52pm

My memory is getting worse by the day. I'm completely shocking when it comes to names. Really bad.

I think it comes down to the individuals attention span. Its different little distractions that get in the way, and as a result it makes people feel like a goldfish afterwards as they were not fully focused on the original matter/topic.

If you are 100% focused on something like reading a book/wathching a certain piece of breaking news, chances are you'll remember the vast majority of the data.

Any form of distraction distorts your memory.

If i'm watching a match on TV with my old man and he might ask me "What did the commentator just say there"? I'll sometimes look at him and go "Ah I wasn't listening", and he'll be like "But you're just sitting there looking and listening to the thing". Something else would have popped into my head for a brief period, therefore blocking any other audio/visual data that my brain is trying to process.

gerry28 · 23-01-2009 4:15pm

Yeah my memory is really bad these days and I blame drink too. I make sandwichs for myself in the morning and the amount of times I have been half way to work and realised I forgot them on the table, also I plug my phone into charge and a while later I can be asking did anyone see my phone.
Very frustrating.. I need to write important things down at work too or else I will.......

deadwood · 23-01-2009 4:15pm

Oops.
Wrong room.
Sorry.

guineapigstar · 23-01-2019 12:03pm

Mine has gone really bad lately. Can never remember where anything is

Bigbagofcans · 23-01-2019 12:11pm

10 years to the day this thread is being resurrected.

guineapigstar · 23-01-2019 12:19pm

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

10 years to the day this thread is being resurrected.

I had been reading old threads from 10 years ago. I must have forgot where I was. I didn't intend to bump such an old thread.

Bigbagofcans · 23-01-2019 12:21pm

guineapigstar wrote: »

I had been reading old threads from 10 years ago. I must have forgot where I was. I didn't intend to bump such an old thread.

Nothing wrong with bumping an old thread, I just thought it was unusual that it was 10 years to the day since its last post!

Boom_Bap · 23-01-2019 12:29pm

It's pretty good at the moment, but I don't think it will snow this weekend.

For Forks Sake · 23-01-2019 12:32pm

guineapigstar wrote: »

Mine has gone really bad lately. Can never remember where anything is

Did you forget to post your reply until now?

mad muffin · 23-01-2019 1:19pm

This is me

https://www.wired.com/2016/04/susie-mckinnon-autobiographical-memory-sdam/

endacl · 23-01-2019 1:20pm

What was the question?

BattleCorp · 23-01-2019 1:24pm

I once had an ex-girlfriend who told me that my memory is so bad that if I got alzheimers, it would improve.

pawrick · 23-01-2019 1:25pm

As far as I know my memory is as good as it ever was

TheValeyard · 23-01-2019 1:26pm

Are those my feet?

pawrick · 23-01-2019 1:27pm

As far as I know my memory is as good as it ever was.

EPAndlee · 23-01-2019 1:29pm

I only came here to see how many pages in it would take to see the 'are those my feet' reference from fr ted

Pherekydes · 23-01-2019 2:15pm

My memory's got so bad I should off myself now, before I forget?

Irish Guitarist · 23-01-2019 2:33pm

My memory has gone terrible when it comes to things like television programs. If I have to wait more than about a month for the new series of something I'll have forgotten most of what happened in the preceding series. I've already forgotten what Stranger Things was about.

RMAOK · 23-01-2019 2:35pm

pawrick wrote: »

As far as I know my memory is as good as it ever was.

Same here.

In certain aspects, I think it has slightly improved. Why? I haven't a clue tbh.

PTH2009 · 23-01-2019 2:36pm

My dad keeps mixing up names esp those with the same first letter. Really irritates me lol

ongarboy · 23-01-2019 3:09pm

I'm in my 40s. I can clearly remember episodes of TV shows from the 1980s, how much money I made for my First Communion and Confirmation and the names of everyone in my primary school classes but cannot remember what cafe I ate lunch in earlier this week, what I watched on TV last night or whether I turned off the emersion after my shower this morning!! It's scary!!

ongarboy · 23-01-2019 3:12pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

My dad keeps mixing up names esp those with the same first letter. Really irritates me lol

Me or my two brothers... if my Dad is calling after one of us, he calls out our 3 names one after the other...it gives him a 1 in 3 chance of getting it right!! :eek::eek::eek:

Graces7 · 23-01-2019 3:12pm

I now get a kind of delayed memory reaction. I can feel and "taste" what I am trying to remember a few minutes before the actual memory arrives. When it does it is perfect, detailled, vivid.

Being nearly 80 is interesting.. many changes

SEPT 23 1989 · 23-01-2019 3:17pm

ongarboy wrote: »

Me or my two brothers... if my Dad is calling after one of us, he calls out our 3 names one after the other...it gives him a 1 in 3 chance of getting it right!! :eek::eek::eek:

pets names were also thrown into the mix in my house

Beasty · 23-01-2019 3:17pm

Can remember my first credit card number. Was only 13 digits then (and expired 31/03/1982).

My long term memory is pretty good and anything relating to numbers is easier for me (got a temporary 8 digit pin last week and can still remember it)

I'm pretty useless at words and names though

begbysback · 23-01-2019 3:17pm

Reminds me of a chalk board I seen earlier outside a pub.

“If you’re drinking to forget, then please pay in advance”.

Captcha · 23-01-2019 3:19pm

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/marijuana-may-boost-rather-than-dull-the-elderly-brain/

Researchers led by Andreas Zimmer of the University of Bonn in Germany gave low doses of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, marijuana’s main active ingredient, to young, mature and aged mice. As expected, young mice treated with THC performed slightly worse on behavioral tests of memory and learning. For example, after receiving THC, young mice took longer to learn where a safe platform was hidden in a water maze, and they had a harder time recognizing another mouse to which they had previously been exposed. Without the drug, mature and aged mice performed worse on the tests than young ones did. But after the elderly animals were given THC, their performances improved to the point that they resembled those of young, untreated mice. “The effects were very robust, very profound,” Zimmer says

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Mad_maxx · 23-01-2019 3:20pm

Not near bad enough

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-01-2019 4:08pm

I've always had a good memory for facts and numbers. I can still list off convoluted formulae or number sequences from many years back. Short term memory is still, thankfully, good but I'm not great at putting names to faces, and never was.

Now in my mid 70s I'm just thankful the old grey cells still function.

TheValeyard · 23-01-2019 4:34pm

Muhammad Gentle Guerilla wrote: »

I've always had a good memory for facts and numbers. I can still list off convoluted formulae or number sequences from many years back. Short term memory is still, thankfully, good but I'm not great at putting names to faces, and never was.

Now in my mid 70s I'm just thankful the old grey cells still function.

You posted the same thing over an hour ago

Steve · 24-01-2019 12:25am

Read this and thought what? I don't remember posting in this thread..

Just realised it was 10 years ago...

Feck, I'm getting old.

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