| User | Comment |
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Lahdee  | | posted 27-Jun-2002 11:39am |
Yes, for a lot of things |
| justjulie | | posted 27-Jun-2002 11:57am |
um.....what now? |
Enheduanna  | | posted 27-Jun-2002 12:54pm |
I have a pretty good memory, although it's not as good as it used to be. And it's better for some things than for others. |
LindaH    | | posted 27-Jun-2002 1:36pm |
I have a good memory for some things, but for everything else, it's atrocious. |
| Oscar | | posted 27-Jun-2002 1:37pm |
I used to have an excellent memory. I won lots of awards for memorization when I was younger. |
| Jemmy | | posted 27-Jun-2002 1:49pm |
I have a good memory for some things but not for others. |
| Biggles | | posted 27-Jun-2002 1:58pm |
I used to, but since I was ill a couple of years ago it's not been so good. My long term memory is great but my short term memory really isn't. Which makes doing exams pretty tough!  |
| grmbrand | | posted 27-Jun-2002 2:12pm |
Thanks for the "I can't remember" option |
| SueBee | | posted 27-Jun-2002 3:02pm |
I have a very visual memory. If I see something in writing, like numbers or names, I usually remember them easily. But I'm terrible about remembering things I need to do, so I try to write things down. |
| ASexyBabe | | posted 27-Jun-2002 3:14pm |
Sometimes I have brain farts but I remember good for the most part.  |
| Zang | | posted 27-Jun-2002 5:34pm |
Good for some things. Getting worse all the time with others. My friends are often amazed with my wealth of anecdotes from 15-25 years ago. I'll reminisce something with them where they were there at the time, but hadn't thought about for years. I can also nail down dates from that period really well too. Sometimes right to the day, but at least to the season/year. On the other hand, my ability to remember phone numbers and such has gotten to be almost nil. I also have this annoying lapse whereby I'll lose a word in mid-sentence. I've noticed my friends doing this too. I think it is something that just happens when you get older. After a while you just get used to it, and when you find yourself staring blankly into space in mid-conversation, you just say "thingy" and proceed! |
| confetti | | posted 27-Jun-2002 5:43pm |
No, great memory. But tends to be selective; I like to recall positive memories more than negative ones. |
| Irene007 | | posted 27-Jun-2002 6:10pm |
Not for everything - there are some things my husband wishes I'd forget!! |
| heyzeus1 | | posted 27-Jun-2002 6:29pm |
somebody reply to me i am so lonely. does anyone remember me. wait, who am i? |
| ASexyBabe | | posted 27-Jun-2002 6:34pm |
I don't know, I can't remember  |
| Frostbrand | | posted 27-Jun-2002 6:43pm |
Oy vey does my memory suck! No wonder I'm not a writer. Half the time I can't remember my character's names AS I'm creating them! |
| Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 27-Jun-2002 7:03pm |
I forget words now!!! Doesn't look too good for me when I'm older does it? |
| Zang | | (reply to Biggles) posted 27-Jun-2002 7:16pm |
No! It only gets worse...  |
| LuridHope | | posted 27-Jun-2002 7:18pm |
Yes I have used a emery board before |
| Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 27-Jun-2002 7:21pm |
Maybe that's why I seem to be less intelligent the older I get! I swear, I was a genius when I was 2 years old but it's all been downhill from there. By the time I'm 20 I'll be capable of nothing more than sweeping a supermarket floor and I'll probably forget which bits I've already swept. Like a goldfish going round and round the bowl. As my chemistry teacher used to say "*My* what a lovely castle.......*My* what a lovely castle.........*My* what a lovely castle" every time we couldn't remember something that he'd taught us. |
| freebird_old | | posted 27-Jun-2002 7:50pm |
For some things and not for others. I can recall random small details from my youth but sometimes have trouble remembering what the last thing I ate for dinner was. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | posted 27-Jun-2002 8:04pm |
For some things, yes. I can remember the last four digits of a phone number, but can't remember the prefix. It would be nice if we could go back to when I was a kid and there was one prefix for Eugene and one for Springfield. |
Galomorro  | | posted 27-Jun-2002 8:13pm |
One of the world's worst memories! I'm thinking it may be due to stress. I read that if you have a traumatic experience (when you are a child, etc.) you may be unable to remember much about this time because of the stress you encountered. This may be true with me. But I have a terrible memory now too; have had one all my life. |
| Zang | | (reply to Biggles) posted 27-Jun-2002 8:22pm |
I'm sure there is an obscure reference there...It has me at a loss... |
| moonstone | | posted 27-Jun-2002 10:32pm |
I think my memory is o.k...I think my long term memory is better than my short term memory. |
| jettles | | posted 27-Jun-2002 10:37pm |
what was the question?? |
| Amanda | | posted 27-Jun-2002 10:52pm |
I'd say I've got a pretty good memory. I'm bad with names at times and can't remember where I put my car keys or if I mailed a certain bill once in a while, but that happens to the best of us. There is a period in my life that I don't remember too much about, but I think it's because I was heavily into drugs at that time. |
| Amanda | | (reply to Irene007) posted 27-Jun-2002 10:56pm |
My fiance is the same as your husband. It bugs him that I can remember everything he's done that has made me mad. What really gets him is that I can remember those things, but I'll forget to pick up something he asked me to get from the store. He'll ask me if I got such and such and I'll tell him I forgot. Then, he'll start complaining about it. I'll say you don't have room to talk. You forgot to get my cigarettes or bread or whatever last week. It drives him crazy. Plus, I remember every fight we've ever had, what it was about, when it was, what he said and what I (nicely) said to him. |
| mandy | | (reply to heyzeus1) posted 27-Jun-2002 11:09pm |
Hi dude..... |
| roozle | | posted 28-Jun-2002 12:04am |
I'm good at dates. What's happening when and so forth. I keep several people's complicated schedules in my head (on a somewhat random basis assisted by a Visor). Other stuff.. not so good a memory.
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| skylark | | posted 28-Jun-2002 2:53am |
For some things yes, for some thing no. Usually I have a bad memory when I'm concentrating on some other thing or have little interest in the subject I should memorise. |
| Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 28-Jun-2002 6:30am |
If there is, I'm at a loss too! |
| Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 28-Jun-2002 6:33am |
Oh talking of obscure references, I'm sure there was a survey where you mentioned a quote that you'd read about the "youth of today" that was written a long time ago? You couldn't recall who'd said it or something. When I was in isolation during my exams, the teacher I was isolated with was talking about something very similar that he'd read about in a book called Hooligan (I think). He said that Daniel Defoe had said something like it. |
| Zang | | (reply to Biggles) posted 28-Jun-2002 6:37am |
I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be one of those ancient Greek philosophers...Plato or someone...Who knows, maybe I dreamt it! |
| Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 28-Jun-2002 6:55am |
I do that a lot. Once I had a dream that my brother died, got up the next morning, went downstairs feeling really rough and there he was slurping orange juice out of the carton and making that revolting glugging sound in his throat as he swilled it too fast. Yuck, I knew I wouldn't dream an image like that so I knew that had to be real...... |
| Irene007 | | (reply to Amanda) posted 28-Jun-2002 7:50am |
There is something about those fights where one even remembers what everyone was wearing - where they were standing and etc... I think they are necessary details to show them how hurt we were and what a [insert insult here] he was!
If I can remember all of those details after so many years, then it must have been a real trauma that has marked my life for ever!! [that'll teach 'em]
Why is it that women always naturally feel guilty and we have to work so hard to MAKE men feel guilty??? |
| Dino | | posted 28-Jun-2002 7:52am |
I know you added the 'I can't remember' option as a joke but seriously that's my answer. |
| Zang | | (reply to Biggles) posted 28-Jun-2002 4:36pm |
...so you had to kill him?  |
| Cleo | | posted 28-Jun-2002 5:04pm |
BIG TIME!  Of all the things I miss the most I miss my memory. **replaces it with a new memory mother board** |
| Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 28-Jun-2002 6:41pm |
It would have made a mess and my mum would have shouted at me. Alas..... |
| heyzeus1 | | (reply to mandy) posted 28-Jun-2002 7:44pm |
'sup? |
| Zang | | (reply to Biggles) posted 28-Jun-2002 7:55pm |
Hmmm.... |
| Germananny | | posted 28-Jun-2002 8:47pm |
only for things that are not important to me... other than that it's still like when I was little... I usually forgot when my parents told me to clean up my room, but when they told me we'd go see a movie or do something else I wanted I was the one who reminded them.... |
| mandy | | (reply to heyzeus1) posted 28-Jun-2002 9:36pm |
nuttin'
Where ya been, boi? |
| spidertea | | posted 29-Jun-2002 2:34am |
For school -yes.
For remembering where I put my car keys- no. |
| wolfchik9 | | posted 29-Jun-2002 4:29am |
I remember faces, I remember names. Sometimes I can't put the 2 together though. I remember things from grammar school and high school that no one else remembers! |
| ASexyBabesToy | | posted 29-Jun-2002 9:54am |
What was the question? |
| Matt | | posted 29-Jun-2002 12:33pm |
I remember a lot of things, I can remember things that have happened years ago as if they'd just happened. As hard as I try to forget there are a lot of bad memories that just dont want to leave me alone. |
| LuridHope | | (reply to Matt) posted 29-Jun-2002 4:09pm |
Same. I as even more time goes by those memories will enough to give you room on the canvas of your life to paint some happy memories. I have "happy knowledge" but no "happy memories" |
| darkshadowsseeker | | (reply to CarolL) posted 30-Jun-2002 12:30am |
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bill  | | posted 30-Jun-2002 7:33am |
In the last month or so it seems to have gotten worse, I have trouble bringing people's names to mind (usually it's something trivial like an actor's name though). Also, I'm sometimes pseudo-aphasic (can't think of the word I want to say). I have this vitamin B12 deficiency problem, though, so I often suspect that's the cause. |
| heyzeus1 | | (reply to mandy) posted 1-Jul-2002 12:29am |
obsessing there and about, but not here. |
| ASexyBabe | | (reply to bill) posted 1-Jul-2002 10:13am |
Do you take vitamin suplements for it? |
| bill | | (reply to ASexyBabe) posted 1-Jul-2002 8:11pm |
B12 shot in my arm, actually. Jen does it... it's a side effect of the surgeries I've had (poor B12 absorption). |
| ASexyBabe | | (reply to bill) posted 1-Jul-2002 8:20pm |
Oh yeah I remember her telling me that she gave you injections. How do you know when you need a shot? |
| bill | | (reply to ASexyBabe) posted 1-Jul-2002 8:27pm |
I start to drool and walk into walls, mumbling and dragging my left leg. |
| ASexyBabe | | (reply to bill) posted 1-Jul-2002 8:38pm |
Are you pulling my leg   |
| bill | | (reply to ASexyBabe) posted 1-Jul-2002 8:39pm |
OK, it's 1ml every 4 weeks, in the shoulder (upper arm). |
| ASexyBabe | | (reply to bill) posted 1-Jul-2002 8:42pm |
I knew my leg was hurting for some reason Next time don't pull so hard  |
| bill | | (reply to ASexyBabe) posted 1-Jul-2002 8:44pm |
Wanna pull my finger? |
| ASexyBabe | | (reply to bill) posted 1-Jul-2002 8:46pm |
you gonna pass gas |
| bill | | (reply to ASexyBabe) posted 1-Jul-2002 8:48pm |
excuse me? how rude! |
| ASexyBabe | | (reply to bill) posted 1-Jul-2002 8:51pm |
lmao |
| oOStephOo | | posted 4-Jul-2002 11:49pm |
No I have a really good memory...But I can remember things that have happened longer ago than things that happened not too long ago...does that make sense? :) |
| bandit1cat |
Used to be very sharp, now I forget the 2 or 3 things my wife said to get from the grocery store by the time I get there. Forget names, many other things. Old age? maybe. |
