Do you have a good memory

[msjprincess]

Excellent long term memory but horrible short term memory. I can tell you what I wore Easter 1974, but I spend most of my day looking for things I've misplaced.

 

[Patch'sD]

What was the topic of this thread

 

[Bilberry]

I don't believe I do.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I have a great academic memory, but a rotten "life" memory. - I forget names, nothing gets done unless I write it down, and I couldn't tell you what my family is wearing today...let alone on some past holiday. Yet I still remember the poem I had to memorize in junior high, and fifteen decimal places of Pi.

 

[Kitty 34]

Do I have a good memory?? I really can't remember.

 

[Pixiedustaway]

Yes. However my problem is I assume everyone remembers the same things as me

 

[Kellykins1218]

13-31-19. My locker combination my senior year (1988)

 

[Kitty 34]

13-31-19. My locker combination my senior year (1988)

Box 540.....my box number at college, over 40 years ago.


.....and I can still name the US state capitals correctly in less than a minute.

 

[IndianaMouse]

My best friend tells me "your memories so bad that by the time you turn 60 you'll be wearing your underwear on your head because you forgot which end they go on". She's probably right too

 

[MinnieMouse84]

I remember my grandmother's phone number in 1992. I remember the date of my surgery when I was five: Tuesday, March 13, 1990. I remember the first and last name of the nurse who prepped me for said surgery. I remember a recurring nightmare I had when I still slept in a crib.

 

[tvguy]

With me there are things that must be archived in my brain, and I don't remember when asked, but hours or days later I do.
With other people, one reporter and I were talking about a particular incident 10 years before involving someone who both know now, but did not know when the incident happened. And it happened in his neighborhood. He didn't recall it. I searched our news archives. HE was the reporter that covered it. That really blew his mind because while he had done several hundred stories since, it was the only story he had ever done in his neighborhood.

 

[cornflkgrl]

I forget where I'm driving while I'm driving there. Go to the wrong school to pick up a child (drove to the middle school when I was suppose to be checking out my elementary child). I dial a number and sometimes forget who I was calling before they pick up. By the time I open Google to Google something I have usually forgotten what I was googling.

I think it's called brain fog. It makes me seem really stupid. Like when I go to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription and they ask my address and it takes several tries as I give them my mom's address and several other random addresses or if they ask my kids birthdate to pick up their prescriptions that is the worst. I feel super embarrassed if I can't remember their birthdays right away.

On the other hand play 3 notes of some obscure 80s tune and I will come up with the singer, the song, and details about where I was the first time I ever heard the song. I don't get my brain.

 

[ols386]

Not really.

 

[Flight]

Nope. I have to write everything down or it is instantly gone.

 

[Magpie]

I forget where I'm driving while I'm driving there. Go to the wrong school to pick up a child (drove to the middle school when I was suppose to be checking out my elementary child). I dial a number and sometimes forget who I was calling before they pick up. By the time I open Google to Google something I have usually forgotten what I was googling.

I think it's called brain fog. It makes me seem really stupid. Like when I go to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription and they ask my address and it takes several tries as I give them my mom's address and several other random addresses or if they ask my kids birthdate to pick up their prescriptions that is the worst. I feel super embarrassed if I can't remember their birthdays right away.

On the other hand play 3 notes of some obscure 80s tune and I will come up with the singer, the song, and details about where I was the first time I ever heard the song. I don't get my brain.

This is me, except I'm no good with obscure 80's tunes, either. On the other hand, I apparently have an excellent memory for events (according to friends and family). I can't say when things happened (I'm bad with dates), but I know what people said and did and exactly where they were standing - it's like replaying a movie in my mind. I can tell you exactly what I read in a book or heard on TV, too, everything except proper nouns and numbers.

But I've also gone to the wrong appointment, and forgotten children, etc. I fail to recognize faces and I'm hopeless with names. And I'm never quite sure how old I am, or when my kids were born. People have thought me stupid, sometimes, but it doesn't bother me. What I'm good at, I'm very, very good at.

I suspect it's something like a mild learning disability. I can't tell my left from my right, either.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Yes, I remember things and details that everybody else seems to forget. I remember things so clearly from 30+ years ago. It is amazing how some of the most seemingly insignificant things, I remember so clearly and could probably tell you what I was wearing when it happened. One problem I have discovered when talking about the "good old days" with people, they usually get stuff wrong. I try to be polite and not correct them.

Remembering to do stuff, I am not nearly as good with. I leave myself post it notes a lot.

 

[OnceUponATime15]

I have an excellent memory!

(It's waaaaay better then Dory's ) lol

 

[karensi]

Nope. I have to write everything down or it is instantly gone.

^^^ That's me too. Also, as another PP said, I can't remember faces. I may have met someone a day or two ago and if I see them again I won't even recognize them. For this reason I think that some people may think that I'm stuck up or snotty but honestly, I just don't recognize peoples faces!

 

[lilkimmyk]

I used to have an excellent memory. I could remember everything about a conversation right down to what someone was wearing and what location said conversation took place and estimated time of day. Once I gave birth I now suffer from brain fog. If my life depended on it I couldn't tell you what I did this morning. It actually concerns me sometimes.

 

[manning]

I have an eexcptional.....what was the question again?