Are you forgetful? Do you suffer from memory loss?

Ohhh I have to say also that when I look back on certain things my mind has become very good at blocking them out. Certain days it gets through anyway and I'll be sitting on the bus daydreaming about childhood friends and feeling like I can just get off the bus and I'll be back in high school.. The rest of the time I block everything out soooo badly that I forget everything about my past.. Maybe it's partly because I never got to say goodbye.. I had no Senior year because I graduated early online and left Texas over the summer.. it wasn't really planned.. So when I look back everything feels suspended.. as if they are still there waiting for me.. But most of the time I don't remember these things. I get sad sometimes because I can't remember all the details of certain things.. certain people.. the flight I took the second time I saw my long-distance-boyfriend .. the whole rest of that day.. It helps to keep a journal if you want to remember things years later. I am very obsessed with taking LOTS of pictures. I have not been good at keeping up a journal for the past 2.5 years. I used to have several religiously. Private ones on my computer, ones on communities like Melodramatic.com, journals I Would write in at school.. The saddest part is that I threw almost all those journals away when I left home! The whole 3 years of high school documented and the whole 4 years with my LDR before I got to meet him.. I REALLY regret that now.. I would give almost ANYTHING to have them back.. Now I save EVERYTHING though. I even have the napkins from the flights that I came to see him! And movie tickets for pretty much every movie we've seen in the past 2.5 years..

Remembering THINGS. About the memory loss episodes of "what am i searching in this room?", i have found the next concepts: - it is easier to me to remind PHYSICAL things on searching. Sometimes found me standing right front where the thing is, although not remembering what i search, it means i knew where it was. - it is harder to remind ABSTRACT things to be searched, like a note on the agenda. So if i find myself lost in a room, i assume it is more possible that it was due to searching something abstract. About memory help devices, there is not a fully useful one. The desirable features are to be: portable and rough, fast access, indexed, duplicatable (no need to manually copy on another). - pen and paper are versatile. Hard to index. - electronic agendas are indexed. slow input. - voice recorders are a bit expensive. New cellphones can do some of it. - maybe in the future, a chip implant near the brain. Who is first? Remambering DREAMS. If you cannot remember a dream, here is a way: stay awake all night, until at the end of the night you will be dreaming awake. It is a grueling way, use only if it is worth.

Some people have memory loss and keep forgetting things. Some people forget things and it is habitual. I forget things because of age (I am 56). For the past 15 years or so I prepare a TTD (things to do list) everyday. When I get up in the morning, I prioritise the list as to which one first and which one last or later on in the day. Thereby I get lot of enthusiasm to complete all the things in the list and thereby I don ot forget anything. But I am slave to this list.

Oh god Im horrible at forgetting things I usually walk back in my 2x because I EITHER forgot my phone,my keys to work or just cant find my brain litteraly and work sometimes I just forget and have to rack my brain for hours so I DONT get in trouble for something I should have better known to not forget

If you do find something please let me know. I have trouble remembering what I did yesterday. I have very few childhood memories, as I don't remember any. It is kinda frustrating some times. Hopefully we find a solution soon.

I'm not sure if we are having "memory loss" or if we are just so overloaded that we can not possibly remember everything! Something that helps me ALOT is writing EVERYTHING down. I don't usually use post-its but I use computer notepad to write lists and budgets, etc. and I use my Outlook Calendar at work to keep track of everything. I set it to remind me of things every 30 minutes! Everything from meeting to turning in my paycheck sheet, to what date my final is for Accounting.. My life is SOOOO hectic right now that I think I would go CRAZY without my calendar! I STILL forget certain things (or put them off) becuase I just have waaaay to much in my mind! I've always been a multi-tasker though and my mind usually skips around like yours does.. I'll be folding clothes and go to put a shirt away and then see a dirty shoe and start cleaning it and then when I go to get the cleaning solution I see scissors that need to be put away.. and then I'm thirsty.. and then I want to check my TIVO.. Yeah. It's never-ending LOL

It happens to everyone usually because you are distracted by thinking about other things. However, as one ages, the short-term memory diminishes and unless you have a disease like Alzheimers your long term memory is unaffected. That is why Aunt Alice can remember her childhood like it was yesterday and can't remember where she laid her glasses down five minutes ago.

i swear i think it's just life.. too much going on and such a small space to contain all the memories. i dont think i have ANY form of filteration in my brain.