Do you feel that when you are distracted, then want to go back to your thought and you can't remember what it was you were going to say or do?

[sage2021]

This seems to be happening more and more with people. Not just older people, but people in their twenties. I was just on the phone with a woman in her twenties and that happened to her, she had forgotten what she was going to say. That thought sailed like a ship🇺🇸 that went out to sea.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

It actually occurred more to me when I was younger for some reason, to the point where I could lose my train of thought mid-conversation. I think it's because my mind was racing with more thoughts back then to the point where one thought could replace another.

I find it happens to me far less these days, perhaps if only because my mind has slowed down a bit.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Also in university, I was so absent-minded that I once stopped between classes to get some fast food, then stopped my car next to a dumpster to throw away the trash. I had my car keys in one hand and the trash in the other.

I walked up to the dumpster and threw away what I thought to be the trash and didn't realize until I was practically trying to unlock my car with a hamburger wrapper that I made a huge mistake. 😂Then I had to dive into the dumpster looking for my car keys.

[FunkyMonkee]

Yeah, same with me. I had so many things going through my head at the same timed, I could forget what I was trying to say. This is part of the reason I didn't do so well in certain classes in school. I just had too much to think.
Fort me, it doesn't happen as often, now, because there's no one around me to distract or put other ideas into my head to think about.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

@FunkyMonkee Much agreed. I also used to be a bit more nervous around people in general back then which might have served as an additional distraction. I mellowed out a bit more with age.

[FunkyMonkee]

One thing that REALLY bugged me was having to sit and do nothing for long periods! Even though the teacher was trying to teach us this or that, having nothing to do made my head go off in all sorts of directions. I think I did much better in classes where I got to do something. Print shop, electronic music, lunch, study hall.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

@FunkyMonkee I'm similarly wired. I used to suspect I might have ADHD but I took some tests on it and apparently have razor focus at least in the context of such tests. It's when I'm idly and have little to do that my mind would race with thoughts.

I don't know about you but I'm also a bit oppositely wired in terms of how I relax. Most people I know think of relaxing as, say, sunbathing at a beach. Mine is closer to bungee jumping or even hard menial labor. It gets my mind focused on one thing which I find relaxing. Just lying down sunbathing is going to set my mind off.

[FunkyMonkee]

Exactly. I don't think I ever took such tests.
As far as I'm concerned, relaxing is sleeping. As long as I'm awake, I wanna do something!! I guess you could say that relaxing was doing something. Reading a magazine, in later years, editing music on the computer. Okay, I'm sitting in one place "relaxing:" but at least I'm doing something! I'm getting work done! However, sitting around playing video games is a HUGE waste of time, to me! I did SOME of that back in the early `80's when I got into Pac-Man for a few months but that's as far as it ever went, with me and, at least that was kind of exciting. Dad used to play a lot of Solitaire. I love playing cards, but not so much by myself. I will, if I'm bored, like, in a setting where everyone's just sitting around talking or watching t. v., at least playing cards by myself is doing SOMETHING. However, during the summer, I might decide to go sit on the porch swing for a few minutes and find myself still sitting there 3 hours later! Mostly, just thinking and watching people go by.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

@FunkyMonkee We seem very similarly wired that way. The difference between doing SOMETHING vs. NOTHING is key to me even though we might vary a bit in what we consider something vs. nothing. Keeping my mind and possibly body is the main way I relieve stress.

That or formerly alcohol. I used to depend on alcohol to slow down my brain in ways where I could actually relax doing what I considered to be nothing. I got tired of turning into an embarrassment repeatedly though so just recently quit drinking completely. Going towards 4 months clean now.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

* Keeping my mind and possibly body [engaged, sorry] is the main way I relieve stress.

[FunkyMonkee]

I relieve stress by either swimming, have a long bike ride or, most likely, having a good bash on the drums.
I never got into booze or any other substances harder than tea or cappuccino. I tried a few bits of booze but never liked any of it except root beer Schnapps with an ice cube in it. so, I KINDA got into that for a few months but still never had more than a dozen or so shots. Back in the late `80's, I noticed I was starting to have trouble remembering a few things so, I quite drinking, if you can call that, "drinking". Ordinary root beer will do quite nicely!!
Nice that you've cleaned up!! Too bad more people don't. I never saw the attraction of getting so shitfaced you can't even remember what you did the night before, then you're in pain from the hangover and, the next night, you can't wait to go do it all over again!

[Likes2drive]

It happens on occasion but I eventually remember

[laly520]

not really

it doesn't make me forget

[Kelly6]

@sage2021 it happen to Biden everytime 🤣🤣