Do you have trouble remembering names?

Question

or do u remeber names....but forget the face ...lol (tht is wht happens with me..) or u have a good memory for both ?

hehe lol @ mamabear, scuba_steve335, dirtydog..

thanks Sweetlemonman

Answer 1

I have a terrible time remembering names. As for faces, I've seen you before somewhere.

I had high hopes for the association techniques. Harry Loryaine and whats-his-name who used to play basketball back when the airpump needle was new, wrote books on it. But I've stopped buying memory books because they often say pretty much the same thing. I browse through them and if I see the words describing association "connect with their clothes" then I just close it up and move on. I remember being introduced to several people and made associations based on clothes. The next time I saw those people they weren't wearing the same thing. The sounds of their voice were familiar, the faces familiar, even a possible scene popped into my mind with where I saw them--but no names would come.

People frequently remember me, often because I've said or done something funny or strange (I'm like that, funny and strange). But I suppose what scuttles it for me is that I either think that I will probably never see this person again (whereupon the name dissolves like sugar in tea) or that I'll be seeing so much of them that I'll always have clues. This latter got me into a lot of embarrassment at a certain business where I was in charge of security. I would report on this strange person who came in over the weekend, it was a vice-president of the company but you'd never know him because I never saw him before in those clothes.

Answer 2

i have a different problem: i remember the names and the faces but i can't associate the names with the right faces. it happens to me when i meet a lot of new people in a short period of time.

Answer 3

I only hav trouble when i meet new people but after a while i remember their faces and names like the back of my hand

Answer 4

I have a hard time remembering names. I can remember a face, but usually not a name.

Answer 5

When I was waitressing I could remember my regular customers orders and their faces but could not tell you their name for about a year. Now I do good to remember my own name. lol
Anita B. Reel

Answer 6

I can remember faces better than names. And sometimes I find that I recognize a person's face, but I have absolutely NO idea how I know that person!

Answer 7

I remember faces but not names

Answer 8

I remember the face not the name or where I know them from.

Answer 9

Ha,ha...I am terrible with names - could be introduced to someone 5 times - and still not remember their name when seeing them again.

I never forget a face, though. :)

Answer 10

I usually remember names and faces.