Forgetting the names of people just introduced

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! You are having problem with your pictorial memory, Shamrack. Pictorial elements is on our right brain. so please rest your right side of your head on the pillow when your take sleep or sleeping. See the difference in couple of months. :::michael:::

Indeed, that is my problem too. Names of people. Especially those newly introduced ones. Faces no problem, but with names ? Introduce me to your friend and by the time the introduction and a brief chat winds up, you can be sure I will forget your friend's name. Lately however, I have minimized this name forgetting problem by means of relationship. I relate the name of a new friend to something or someone I knew very well. Like a Miss Cleo to 'Cleopatra', a Mr Penilla to a pen and a our local name for a typewriter which is 'makenilla'. This method of name recall is quite easy to do and it sure helps to preclude embarrassing moments when you forget the name of a newly introduced friend.

That also happens to me. I can't easily remember new acquaintances people. Sometimes, some people will smile at me but I will not smile them because I am not sure if I really met them. Sometimes they look familiar. I think I have to practice remembering new meet people.

You are not the only person, I think. It is the same with me. I also easily forget people's name. I just don't know why. It makes me feel so embarrassing when this happens to me. I wish I could remember well as always. I am a forgetful man. hehe.

The problem is, your short term memory can only hold around 7 elements, and it only holds the information for a very limited time (less than 30 seconds). The information will not go into your long term memory by it self. It needs to be coded into your memory. If you simply hear the persons name, and then continue talking without thinking about their name any more, you will very easily forget the name without it being coded into your long term memory. There was a period when I made myself code people's names into my memory when I met them by either repeating their name to myself in my head or by making up an image of how the name fitted the person in my mind. However, I forgot about this whole procude after a while, and now I'm back to forgetting people's names ;)

I have difficulties remembering names and faces too. Shake hands, buddy.

I have never been good at remembering names, I don't have a good memory for anything really but names I can forget in minutes, someone once told me I should think of something that identifies with that name when I am introduced but it doesn't work for me either.

I admit I have a terrible memory for names. I know loads of people but names escape me. I can remember faces but putting a name to the face is more difficult

Yeah. Me too. Most of the time, like when I'm introduced by a friend to another person.. I don't really pay much attention since I just thought that the introduction with that person and me is just for the mean time and later on, we will forget each others names. A few weeks passed when someone who I don't know by name happen to call me.. and when I turned around, I saw his face and then I really had difficulties in remembering what his name was. What I did was ask him where he studied again, and asked him what his full name is so that he won't notice that I can't recognize his name.. :) that's a lesson for me. To the rest of us, yeah. we should try not to forget the names of the people that is introduced by us. We don't really know. Maybe that person will really remember our faces and names .

I also forget the names of people who are introduced to me. Worse, I also forget their faces! I sometimes make my defective eyesights as an excuse for not remembering their faces. I really hate myself for having such poor memory.