Easy Amnesia

[Anthile]

Hm, not sure if that is even worth a thread.

Well, I was watching Star Trek films the whole and so I was at my laptop the whole day. Suddenly there was a brief moment of "realization" and I asked myself "What did I do in the last five minutes?". I couldn't remember it.
Those five minutes were just not there. But then I saw the cup of coffee on my desk and I was like "Oh, that was it".
Although the memories of doing that seem to be away.

I'm not quite sure if I had that before. Maybe I never had that "realization" afterwards.
It's just a bit scary but mostly just weird.

Does anyone of you has such moments too?
What is the cause?

 

[saffyangelis]

I read somewhere about this that it was because the person in question was in a 'trance' and once they had come out of that trance, they wouldn't be able to remember what they had done. I'm fairly sure I was Reading aboout hypnosis though.

It does happen to me a lot though, mainly when I've just been holding something, put it down for a second, and managed to lose it.

 

[Red Mage]

Hm, not sure if that is even worth a thread.

Well, I was watching Star Trek films the whole and so I was at my laptop the whole day. Suddenly there was a brief moment of "realization" and I asked myself "What did I do in the last five minutes?". I couldn't remember it.
Those five minutes were just not there. But then I saw the cup of coffee on my desk and I was like "Oh, that was it".
Although the memories of doing that seem to be away.

I'm not quite sure if I had that before. Maybe I never had that "realization" afterwards.
It's just a bit scary but mostly just weird.

Does anyone of you has such moments too?
What is the cause?

You just described my entire life.

 

[snowqueen]

You just described my entire life.

Yeah me too - huge chunks of life just lost forever. I could never write an autobiography. Scariest ones are when I've been driving down the motorway and realise I can't remember the last 10 minutes.

 

[Tyria]

I am often busy, and find myself forgetting why I stepped into a room or what I was supposed to be doing. I try to retrace my steps, and it does work sometime. Otherwise, it gets frustrating and I have to keep something to write down what I'm trying to do or think about.

Even more annoying is not being able to recall what I was doing only to have it jump into my head when I am in the middle of something else >:/

I always worry that I will forget what I'm doing at that time when I try to do what I forgot I was doing 5 minutes ago.

There are just so many things to think about, I don't see how you can't get lost in thoughts. I suppose the cause is a mind overwhelmed with too many things, but maybe I should look it up just because.

*looks around with an odd look*

What was I doing just now?

*walks away mumbling about something*

 

[Artifice Orisit]

I often wander around the houses aimlessly, having completely forgotten where I was going and what I was doing; there is also that time I found myself having a shower with an empty coffee cup in my hand, which I only noticed because the shower was filling it with water.

What the hell causes this?

 

[Fukyo]

I often wander around the houses aimlessly, having completely forgotten where I was going and what I was doing;

That happens to me often.Or looking for something,and then realizing it was in my hand or somewhere near me in plain sight.

 

[Solfege]

It happens to me as well. I joke with my friends that my brain has a mechanism for setting my body on autopilot so my mind can concentrate on other things. The downside is that I only have vague memories of what I was doing while in that state.

 

[Venture]

Often I will wake up totally clueless about what I did the day before, and I will be sitting down somewhere and completley forget about I was doing or what I am doing, it is quite frustrating. I also frequently start thnking about something so hard I will become completley oblivious of the outside world almost like a trance, I won't even be seeing what my eyes are looking at.

 

[Latro]

You just described my entire life.

In terms of specific, concrete events, I'm startlingly the same way. My actual memory is terrible.

For once I was not expecting to see similarities between myself and INTXs here...weird...

 

[Deleted member 1424]

I do this all the time. Occasionally when I'm playing a video game (especially if I'm tired) I will forget completing parts of it. So later when I return to the game I'll have no idea where I am, how I mysteriously gained 15 lvs and why I have two new additions to my party.

@latro
Check out this thread and see if anything applies.

 

[Latro]

@latro
Check out this thread and see if anything applies.

Yep, it applies. This is very strange; I had long since blamed my period of being medicated for 4 years for this, followed by the fact that, after that, I pretty much entered the current phase of my life (which has been going since about May 2005), where the non-school-related things that I would have to remember comprised forum posts (~20,000 of them) and MMO sessions (probably about 1000 hours worth now) and relatively little else.

I wonder how much of it is the medication and how much is just being INTX...

 

[Servente]

I did that once driving over a 20 mile bridge. I remember the town before the bridge. About 30 minutes later I thought gee its taking a long time to get to Lafayette and realized I was off the bridge and only a few miles from my distenation.

Wish I could put myself in to a trance at will. I trained in clinical hypnosis, but have never been able to apply it to myself.

 

[preilemus]

in school, i slip into a trance so much its not even funny. entire classes go by in a second.

and my home life is just one big blur anyways, i might as well be hibernating in between school hours

 

[Venture]

I do this all the time. Occasionally when I'm playing a video game (especially if I'm tired) I will forget completing parts of it. So later when I return to the game I'll have no idea where I am, how I mysteriously gained 15 lvs and why I have two new additions to my party.

@latro
Check out this thread and see if anything applies.

That happens alot to me with certain games, I will be playing it for a couple of hours and not remeber playing because I was in a trance.

 

[didyouknow]

I mainly forget when I've been doing something for over 15 minutes. When I watch tv, I almost always forget what happened in the last show and barely recall what the plot is. Sometimes it will get to the ad break and I can't remember what show I'm watching.

It works a wonder through a boring speech though. I can sit there for half an hour and it flies by without me remembering a word they said.

 

[The Fury]

This sort of thing happens to me all the time. Just a few weeks ago I was in a staff meeting where we were discussing the end of the quater. I completely zoned out and didn't remember anything that happened in the meeting.

That wouldn't have been so bad but I had been given the responsibility of tracking the newbie's orders and if it hadn't been for a friend of mine I would have lost the company 300,000 dollars.

 

[mathy]

You just described my entire life.

Mine too..... :/

 

[brain enclosed in flesh]

I consider this a core trait of INTP.

 

[Red Mage]

I consider this a core trait of INTP.

According to some online INTP profiles and comments by some users here, apparently we're supposed to have good memories, actually. Something about Ne helping to make the associations required to have fast recall. Like when you're learning a new language and you're supposed to think of a picture when you hear a certain word, or something. Oh well. I was never a very good INTP in the first place.

 

[brain enclosed in flesh]

I thought it was good memories for things we consider important- kind of a weighted memory.

Or an inconsistent memory.

 

[mathy]

I thought it was good memories for things we consider important- kind of a weighted memory.

Or an inconsistent memory.

This.

There are some moments I can recall with perfect clarity from early childhood that I shock people that I know. Conversations (that I have paid attention to anyway) I tend to remember very well. I remember a lot of things other people don't, but then again, I don't remember a lot of things that most people would. Short term memory loss (if you can even call it memory if you were never paying attention to it in the first place) about details of the environment/what I was doing are easily forgotten. Probably due to how much thinking I do, thus never was paying attention to the things in question to begin with. If I'm absorbed in my thoughts, chances are I'm going to forget what's around me/what I was doing here in the first place. And that is very much INTP I believe.

 

[snowqueen]

I used to have an eidetic memory (total recall) for anything I read or saw. It's how I passed exams so well. Unfortunately it faded to very good when I was about 15. It was still excellent though until I developed a condition in my mid forties that was undiagnosed and by the time it was diagnosed I had lost a chunk of memory function - though I still have a reasonable memory. But even then I was 'forgetful' in that absent-minded way. And never bothered to remember things my mother thought were important.

 

[NoID10ts]

Scariest ones are when I've been driving down the motorway and realise I can't remember the last 10 minutes.

This is funny because I do this too. I've had moments where it's like I come to and have missed my exit on the freeway or something and am not quite sure where the hell I actually am. What really makes me mad is sometimes my wife is with me, is aware that I've missed an exit, but doesn't say anything because she assumes I know what I'm doing.

 

[Tyria]

I always used to walk into the wrong classrooms in my school. I remember once walking into a class with people several grades below me. I was so embarrassed that I ran out without saying a word >< I hope that they forgot that I did that...


I'm so glad that you don't have to switch rooms every 50 minutes after you get out of college. I would have been sooo lost at a big university.

 

[Mars]

This happens to me far too often, so often in fact that I tried to harness it.

Basically I think about what I want to happen, like the end of a lecture and such. Then I just think about why I want to get out of there and what I want to do later, then the abstractions float in and *poof* thinking, ignoring, drawing, doodling and whatevering. Then I realise that I have no external reference point to judge time by and I wonder how long I was zoned out for and check the time as if I knew what it was when I started.

Happened today in a lecture, I was tired, the room was dark and an anatomy and physiology movie was on. *cue dramatic scream* Anyway... I closed my eyes and listened to the video for a bit then ran off into my mind. I think I went deaf, my friends thought I fell asleep and then my friend tapped me on the arm and the film thing was over.

Somehow I have this Pness tingling [leaves spidey sense for dead] that this zoning out is just a case of me having a compromised mental filing/operation system. Idle conjecture leads me to postulate that it is a result of me being interrupted in the middle of 'important thinking' thus leaving perceptual constructs half assembled and they conglomerate and cause a huge mess, jumping in to take control and demand to be figured out/implemented for no aparrent reason.

Leaves me thinking that my brain is overprocessed overstimulated and abused through not having time to let it just float free. Hmmm might be why sometimes I have the phrase 'free form floating' stuck in my head.

 

[Waterstiller]

This thread is wonderful. It makes me feel less weird.


I get depressed and have mental paralysis when I try to stay in my immediate environment for too long. I cease to exist when I'm not being absent-minded. I don't function 'linearly' like an S/J would. If watching TV, I always forget which show I'm watching during commercials. Especially if it's a cleaning commercial that pushes my feminism button. I usually forget whether or not I've eaten and I'll come to weird sudden realizations that I'm hungry. Earlier today I came out of zoning out and realized I had a headache - then wondered if I even had the headache before realizing it.

I have a hard time remembering anything I did in the recent past. An hour ago? Yesterday? Last week? Last month? Time is blurry. My mental filing system doesn't place much emphasis on time; memories aren't filed by their time stamp. My memories have 'tags' that I can search for when needed. But this separates me from the linear reality of the world that's going on around me.