Great idea? no oh my its just rubbish wow!!

Oh yeah, and that can be a good thing, saves us from embarrassment, eh? LOL I have had ideas and once I sign in I think, "That would make a stupid discussion."

I have so done that before! Lol. I thought it was great than I look at it again and say um...no. Either it would start a war or it would be boring. Neither of which are good. Your not alone Hatley and your not losing your marbles either!

I've done it too Hatley. There has been times where I think of a discussion but then don't have time to get it written out on here, so I just remember it. When I come back later, I forget a key factor for why I wanted to create it in the first place, so lose that punchline that would have made it gold. Sometimes I don't remember it (the discussion I want to start) for weeks and by then I'm like "meh I won't make it" because I just don't know how to work it.

not at all. its happened to me several times. plus, before mylot, i would think of great plots for books and story ideas. jot them down before sleep. as i heard some great novelist used to do and next day, id think, how silly, makes no sense at all. then, get this,....there are times i jot down things and cant read my own writing!!

Hee hee - it's happened to me too, Hatley! Although most of the time I forget what brilliant discussions I "was" going to discuss because I never bother to jot them down. My brain probably goes mush just before I actually fall asleep - and all is lost!! I have also taken the time to write detailed discussions - only to reread and think no one is going to bother to read this or comment - so I just delete the whole thing and call it a day. Sigh.

Hi Aunt Hatley, This has happened to me also... I think that when we think of an idea and jot it down, we know exactly how we want to frame a discussion, but then after sleeping on it, we forgot what we were thinking at the time. The words jotted down are just words and don't mean as much as they did when we first thought of them... it might be a good idea to actually write a rough draft of the discussion and you can tweak it in the morning. Hope that helps... but yes.. my forgetter is getting better and better, so I am one to forget an idea if I don't write it down along with some thoughts to go with it.

It has happened to me at least once before. I think the reason we think it's a great idea at first is because we're in a dream state, where things are different to start with. It may have been a great discussion in dreamland, but just doesn't work here in wakey wakey land, like swimming through the air or being in a house that part of is like your own and another part is like someone else's.

If you're losing your marbles, they're right beside mine! I will wake up with a great idea for a discussion during the night, and "write" it down and it will end up looking something like this: Will smufgibl bxlimgbd be oofipimd in grmumprfgl? I happily lay the pad and paper aside and go back to sleep. I wake up in the morning and find the note and race to my computer to start the discussion...and wonder what the heck I wrote down! I rack my mind to try to remember what it was and it won't surface. I have had to make duplicates of all my keys made so that I can get into my car, house and mailbox. I don't always remember to put them back in my purse. Marbles? I ain't got any left!!! I've left my cordless phone in the freezer...I had to use the pager feature to find the handset...imagine the freezer playing Jingle Bells! I still can't figure out how I did that. There are still things that I am looking for that I put someplace I could find them again easily...and six months later I am still looking. One of the biggest things I am still looking for is my marbles...If I find yours I'll let you know!

Hi sweetie! Yes, I'm joining the crowd above to say this has happened to me numerous times. It takes me a while to even think of a discussion that hasn't been started before, or isn't boring to most. I remember a few weeks ago I had like 3 of them in my head, then changed my mind. So much for thinking about discussions in the middle of the night, lol!

I do that, too, although not in the middle of the night. My problem is that I come up with ideas then realize I don't really want to discuss them, I just want to get up on my soapbox and rant! Living alone as I do and rarely interacting with anyone in the real world, I don't have anyone to gripe to. I have my dogs but they just look at me adoringly and think everything is hunky dory or they go get a toy so we can play--which isn't really conducive to righteous indignation or a spirited discussion!

Oh, I think we all have that issue sometimes--not necessarily about discussions to start on myLot but other things. I've had ideas in the middle of the night that seemed as though they might be greatly profitable. Unfortunately, they do not hold up in the light of day.

I don't think it happens just on mylot, but in most aspects of life. Lots of things sound better in our own heads and then we go to apply them to the real world and something in them falls apart. How many injuries have happened because, "it seemed like a good idea at the time?" Nope, you're not losing your marbles. This happens to me too. I'll think of something I think is dynamite and then I'll go to make a discussion and realize, "Ehhh... it's not that great."

I think marbles when we're waking up in the middle of the night are in short supply, especially if we're half in our little dream world. However, there have been exceptions.

I have done that many times too. It usually happens when I am trying to think of an idea for an article. It even goes as far as actually writing it, reading it back and then realising that "This is crap!"

It certainly does young lady, as it probably does to most people. I have never been in a rush to generate discussions and simply wait until crops up, but when it does it can be a good idea one moment and nonsense the next. I have been out shopping or at word and something has happened to make me think of what an interesting subject for discussion it would be, so I have made a mental note of it. After arriving home and making a cup of coffee I have sat at my computer, at which time I wonder what possessed me to consider garbage like that to be of interest to anyone. Naturally I simply dismiss the idea and content myself with responding to others. I suppose in reality it is impossible to know what others would find interesting, but with only my own opinion to go by I have to depend on it whether right or wrong.

Yes indeed the brain could spew great ideas for possible discussion with fellow mylotters. When i couldn't sleep at night lots of ideas come flooding my mind but these ideas for some reasons couldn't materialise into a discussion. I feel the ideas aren't good enough that might bored the readers so the whole ideas become a waste once more. I have always become a victim of this 'second thought syndrome' or whatever you term it. So the drought season continues.

Hi, Hatley, honestly, when I go to bed I have other thoughts in my head, as all the unresolved problems of my day and my life But I've had other strange experiences with discussions: I post a discussion with a "brilliant" topic but it turns out that nobody is interested about. A remember also at least one time when my question was not very well formulated and most of the people who responded didn't understand very well the meaning. So it's not easy but we should keep thinkink

Sometimes.. ...and I keep on going around it all and then not making sense at all. Okay, not a good discussion for me, so erase, erase, erase...

I don't think what you considered to be a brilliant discussion thread last night is a rubbish.You should trust your instincts and first impressions.

"Am I losing my marbles?" such a nice expression. I remembered my friend, we were just exchanging PMs regarding these idioms, last night. Anyway, to the discussion, yes I do, sometimes, if can not face the computer and I have idle time, I scribble a few topics to discuss. Write a few discussions with all the good words that will come out of my mind. But, then when I am already typing the discussions, I will just stop typing it having thoughts, "will the mylotters community like this?" or this will just be another discussion to be left out. I just stop and discontinue typing. Though i don't have those marbles yet, in terms of opening a good discussion here. No you haven't lost your marbles, this is great discussion, too.