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[–] 17 points 1 month ago

Walking into a different room be like

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    I have occasional celebrity name blindness, or whatever.

    Some days I can name every celebrity I see in a picture, and other days I can't pull up a single one. I recognize the woman in the picture, but I can't recall her name at the moment, but maybe I will be able to tomorrow.

    A while back, someone posted a picture of the Rolling Stones, and I knew every name, but Mick Jagger's.

    Robert De Niro, Al Pachino, Christopher Walken, Matthew McConaughey are all names I've "misplaced" recently. At the same time, I can get Woody Harrelson, though--when I was commenting about Brothers.

    This isn't new, I've had this weird affliction my whole life, I think.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    easier than trying to forget a 30 year old fuck up

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    See, you do understand pointers.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Is there a name for the sensation of currently forgetting something you just had in mind?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    This is me working late. Checklists become my only hope. That and breaking down the tasks into absurdly smaller tasks.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Waste 15 minutes trying to figure out the game changing idea i had that I'm convinced is never coming back

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    "That's a good idea... wait, what was I thinking?"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Jokes aside, but if you experience this and you had enough sleep, then you're dying

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Not necessarily. If they're moving around, it could be the Doorway Effect. An actual psychological phenomenon where we tend to forget things when we go through a door, or some other transition to a different location/environment.

    Basically a trick our brain uses for more efficient memory back-firing on us.

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