I mean, my memory is really good, I can remember things from when I was a toddler - how is it that something I wanted to say 30 seconds ago is gone forever??
2006-10-23 08:15:22 · 14 answers · asked by Funky Little Spacegirl 6 in Health ➔ Mental Health
You have the same condition that I suffer from, it's called "Colander Brain", it's like having a memory like a sieve but worse.
2006-10-23 08:19:21 · answer #1 · answered by Kango Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And walked into a room to get something but can't remember what. Memory is stored in a filing system, long term, short tem and dream.
If you don't tell someone about a dream within a few hours or even minutes of waking you will probably forget most or maybe all of it. Telling someone shunts it into short term memory which may last a bit longer.
Short term memory is not yet prioritised so you may hold some but lose others.
Long term memory has already been given permanent status by the brain and thus will probably be retained long after it has outlived its usefullness.
2006-10-23 08:32:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm exactly the same as you! I find it hard remembering whatever I was going to say - and more often, HOW to say it - but I can remember being 2..?
It seems to be that people like us two (and many others, form what I can see here!) have good long-term memory and poor-short term.
No idea how and why this is so, but there we are.
2006-10-23 08:25:02 · answer #3 · answered by swelwynemma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whatever you were thinking goes straight into your long term memory and gets muddled up with all the other none important things. You may of thought what you was going to say was important but in most cases it turns out to be true. Or does it not sure. What was I talking about again?
2006-10-23 10:34:36 · answer #4 · answered by Mike A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like lightening. A bright idea gone in a flash!
I know I do it all the time. I have to write even mundane things down to remember them some days. It's called having too many things going at one time, or Scatter brain. Your about to say something, but your mind switches to something else in that moment and "Poof!"............it's gone. It will come to you when you go to bed tonight and there's nobody awake to hear you. That's what happens to me anyway. Oh-well ;o)
2006-10-23 08:26:13 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could or could not be a sign of something. I heard someone call it 'tip of the tounge sydrome'. I know exactly what you mean though. I have MS so I get like this sometimes. My friends understand and we just laugh it off. This is normal sometimes for healthy people too so unless you have other symptoms I would not worry too much about it.
2006-10-23 08:20:02 · answer #6 · answered by yahoomania 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am like you, I remeber being a new born, but I can't remember what I was going to say a minute ago.
My mom just always told me it wasn't really that important, I say Alzheimers is comming to younger ages.
2006-10-23 08:20:40 · answer #7 · answered by danksprite420 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It happens very easily. When you are about to say something, if someone else says something just as you are going to say it and whatever the other person says is interesting, you become interested in what they are saying and forget what you were going to say.
2006-10-23 08:17:40 · answer #8 · answered by h0axsp1d0r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats called getting old me dear, unavoidable I am afraid.
2006-10-23 08:17:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am also young, and this happens to me frequently. How it happens is....................Oh no .............Apparently their are games that you can play that improve short term memory but I can't remember what they are called.
2006-10-23 08:18:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋