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Stress makes it worse. Fortunately, constantly forgetting shit isn’t incredibly stressful!
Trying to retrace my last steps until I remember
This is such a pain in my ass now that ive got a full blown family. Trying to retrace my steps to find the thing I out down 30 seconds ago. Except ive got a toddler hanging off my leg shouting daddy daddy and an annoyed wife in my way demanding to know where I had it last and that she cant believe I lost it and that I just had it so how can I not know where it is.
This is your chance: train the toddler to help you find stuff!
I do that physically. The undo attempt. (Usually doesn't work)
... What doesn't work?
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/s
we were talking about toast, right?
No!
...yes, maybe? Ngl that toast does smell good right now...
I have the ability to somehow forget whatever it is that I'm doing literally as I am actively doing that thing.
For me, it happens especially with activities I do over and over again. Washing my hair, while rinsing I will forget if it's shampoo or conditioner I am rinsing out, have to try to deduce it. Morning stretches I have to do in the same order, because I can remember the order to recognize where I am and do the next thing, but I have no memory of what I just did.
Keeping track of one-time sequences is also a problem, but at least in that circumstance I am more likely to have written material I am referring to anyway.
I notice it most when I'm trying to debug software and keep forgetting what I'm looking for.
When I forget the name of someone that I have known for ages. Especially frustrating when I see them somewhere and I'm scrambling through my phone contacts to see if it jogs my memory.
Then, all of a sudden POOF it comes back to me. So annoying.
Apparently the most brutal form of this feeling is experienced by people with dissociative fugue, where your head is basically temporarily wiped all of a sudden.
that's why important things go in the note taking app, and I hope I can open the app fast enough before the memory fades
doing thing A
gets interrupted by thing B
thing C gets mentioned
thing A is now a landmine I will step on later in the day
Yup, I totally
Me: Sorry, what was that you said?
NT: Nevermind
Me: But I'm asking!
NT: Don't worry it's no big deal
Me: [suppressing extreme grief over what was certainly a big deal]