How good/bad is your memory?

[Dibbythedog]

I'm a woman of a certain age and my memory is appalling
To be fair though , Ive always been forgetful and I used to wear a sweat shirt with Away with the Fairies on it .

Yesterday , I asked my OH what was the name of the Home my BIL was in. When he told me , I said , Oh of course it is , I knew that really. My memorys not that bad , I know my cars a Corsa and laughed. he said Erm its a Micra.

 

[JudyN]

Mine's awful. Like you, it always was rubbish, but now age is added on top of that. I'm pretty sure I'd fail an Alzheimer's screening, but then I wouldn't bet on passing it when I was fresh out of uni with a degree.

 

[ThreeFloofyButts]

Well as shown on the defectors thread I can't even remember who I am I can recall really inane useless information from years and years ago but ask what I did 5 minutes ago or why I'm stood in the larder, well I have not a clue I am blaming it entirely on hormones, they are also to blame for the fact I keep throwing not rubbish in the bin and walking around wondering why I am holding the rubbish, my favourite thing currently is throwing away teaspoons whilst still holding the teabag/cat food pouch/dog food topper tin

 

[Rona]

My memory is quite bad but not as bad as TOT word retrieval. This can interrupt a sentence several times, quite often the word is never found in that whole conversation.

Had one the other day that I knew I knew but it wouldn't come to me all day. Yesterday it was there in an instant.................sigh..............today it's gone again. I'll let you know if I remember it

 

[magpi]

My memory is also shocking. In fact I'm very annoyed with myself at the moment. My little granddaughter bought me a compact mirror for my birthday with granny engraved on it. I've hunted high and low for that mirror and can't remember where I've put it. I have a horrible feeling I've thrown it out with the birthday wrapping. Also since I've retired I have to think every morning when I wake up what day is it?

 

[ForestWomble]

My memory is quite bad but not as bad as TOT word retrieval. This can interrupt a sentence several times, quite often the word is never found in that whole conversation.

Had one the other day that I knew I knew but it wouldn't come to me all day. Yesterday it was there in an instant.................sigh..............today it's gone again. I'll let you know if I remember it

What is TOT word retrieval?

At times I think I have a pretty good memory, other times it's terrible.

 

[JudyN]

What is TOT word retrieval?

At times I think I have a pretty good memory, other times it's terrible.

Tip of the tongue - when you know there's a word that is exactly the one you want, but can't bring it to mind. It's a right pain when that happens when I'm copyediting and need to recall it

 

[ForestWomble]

Tip of the tongue - when you know there's a word that is exactly the one you want, but can't bring it to mind. It's a right pain when that happens when I'm copyediting and need to recall it

Thanks. That happens to me, writing something or talking to someone and can not think of the word I want.

I was writing an essay about hieroglyphs, had got into the flow but had to stop, could not think of the word (hieroglyph funnily enough) and all I could come up with was 'picture word thingies'

 

[Rona]

Had one the other day that I knew I knew but it wouldn't come to me all day. Yesterday it was there in an instant.................sigh..............today it's gone again. I'll let you know if I remember it

Got it when I walked down the garden. Chicory Yay

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[Mad Murphy]

It's hilarious I can go upstairs forget what I've been up for till I get to the bottom step and then suddenly I remember what it was I forgotten and I have to go back up again.
But I can remember my nana's phone number even though she hasn't lived there since about 1983.. I can remember the number for the call box outside my mother's house even though I haven't lived there since 1981 and the call box has since been dismantled.
However I cannot remember my husband's telephone number for his mobile.
In my case I have a feeling it's more than things that we need to commit to memory such as in the old days where we needed to remember a telephone number rather than those things nowadays which we don't need to remember such as a telephone number because it's in our mobiles and we can automatically dial .
I must be a crazy dog lady though when trying to remember events I often think what dog did we have at that time, that way I can narrow down the timescale.

 

[RGC]

Best chat up line of an aging lothario - “Your place or mine?” “I said, is this your place or mine?”.

 

[JudyN]

It took me a couple of years to remember my own mobile number! I tend to remember Latin names of bugs better than their common names... and whereas I can wander around in the countryside with no idea whether I'd been that way before, I'd suddenly think, 'Ah, that bush is where I first saw an Anthophora bimaculata!' (That is a slight exaggeration - I spelt Anthophora wrong on my first attempt and had to check the second part, but you get the idea.)
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[JudyN]

Best chat up line of an aging lothario - “Your place or mine?” “I said, is this your place or mine?”.

Presumably followed some hours later by 'What was your name again?' Oh, hold on, that's not just ageing Lotharios!

 

[Lurcherlad2]

I have the memory of a Goldfish.

I check the Calendar … then an hour later I’ve forgotten

I put an “unignorable” alarm in my phone for everything … on the morning of, then update it to an hour before … otherwise I’d have forgotten by the time it comes round.

It was really noticeable once I hit Menopause, but the additional hunting for words and ability to speak which also appeared improved on HRT

I’ve been off HRT a while and hoping I don’t regress

 

[BKayHol2]

Ugg! I keep forgetting to reply to this thread........