Question Of The Day - Saturday, April 9th

Good morning!

Sorry this is so late. It completely slipped my mind. So...

Do you have a good memory, or do you often forget?

I usually have a pretty good memory (with today being the exception ) especially with numbers.

I have found that, the older I get, the worse my memory is getting. Either that or I've been hanging around my absent-minded husband way too long!

It depends. I can recite Standardbred pedigrees for generations back, can tell you what has been seeded on what piece of land going years back, how much hay came off the hay flat in what year, name every horse I trained and tell you what equipment that horse wore and how fast it went, but please don't ask me what I had for supper last night or to remember to do something not related to the farm - the latter is so bad, I have gone for parts and groceries and forgot groceries but remembered cat food. Go figure

For the most part, good. It does depend on what I'm trying to remember. Concrete ideas or things I can visualize get recorded in, and in detail that others doesn't seem to do.
Any abstract is very difficult for me to remember. If I can't take/make mental snapshots it won't record in my brain fully. Unfortunately that makes for big deficits in anything involving numbers or trying to find somewhere I've never been to before (from a map/directions). I also have problems with time and even day and day of the week.


I have some problems with remembering what I'm doing, done, saying. But there's a correlation between issues with that and how sick I'm feeling.

Far as getting things at a store/done NO. But numbers and directions(or how to get somewhere in my head) VERY good.

I forget things all the time. Thank Heaven for my phone...

... now where did I put it?

I was blessed with a super good memory. Not quite photographic, but close enough.

I remember when I first started nursing, the nurses I worked with would comment on how "blank" my work sheet was and that it didn't look much different than when I started the shift. And it really wasn't. Some days I didn't add anything extra to it other than what I put on it at the start of the shift from the patient's chart. I had between 6 and 8 patients, but I remembered all vital signs, medications given, times given, treatments done etc. for each of them without having to write it down.

Can't say that I can do that now. Not sure if it's an actual memory problem or just a poor attention span but now I find that I need to write many things down or I'll forget, especially when I'm trying to remember something when there is too much going on around me. Which is why I believe it's more of an attention span issue than an actual memory problem.

Originally Posted by strange_wings

I have some problems with remembering what I'm doing, done, saying. But there's a correlation between issues with that and how sick I'm feeling.

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Bingo! That's what I was trying to say when I said I think it's more of an attention span problem than an actual memory one. Since 2004 my health has declined considerably and I've noticed that during that same time, my "memory" isn't what it used to be before that.

Originally Posted by sk_pacer

It depends.

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..... ...Now I need some reminders!....

Unfortunately my memory is not as sharp as it used to me. I am always leaving notes around to remind me to do certain things, Russ reads them and laughs at me. It gets so bad at times that I will open the fridge and then forget what I was looking for, it's pathetic. I know age has a lot to do with it, age has a lot to do with a lot of things

^I have the "doing" forgetfullness, too. One thing that I do that helps is that I make a mental schedule for everything, then a mental film for it and follow the order. It becomes automatic and I can do stuff when I have memory gaps(lack of blood and oxygen to my brain does this). Spontaneity doesn't work for me.

Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

Bingo! That's what I was trying to say when I said I think it's more of an attention span problem than an actual memory one. Since 2004 my health has declined considerably and I've noticed that during that same time, my "memory" isn't what it used to be before that.

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It's not attention span in my case, it's lack of oxygen and blood to my brain, some damage cause by gluten and deficiencies, and just frank pain. With the latter it might just be that at that time I really don't care…

I have a very selective memory. I can tell someone the questions and answers on a math quiz I had in 7th grade, but I can't remember what I just said in a conversation.

On the other side of the same coin, due to some health problems I won't go into here, I can eat, visit someone, clean, draw, etc. and have absolutely no memory of it.

I too, have a very selective memory. I'm no good with remembering names, but I'm great with faces, and I can remember the name AND temperament of every single foster cat I have ever had, and I have had MANY.