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 01:28PM

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 02:11PM

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 02:27PM

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 02:44PM

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

Fizman · 23-01-2009 02:52PM

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 04:15PM

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.......