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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 09:44 AM Sep 2014

How good is your memory ?

Last edited Wed Sep 3, 2014, 01:10 PM - Edit history (1)

I chose the first option, but I exaggerate a tad.

to Raffi Ella for the online test: http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/how-bad-is-your-memory


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I forget my name, daily
0 (0%)
I remember every detail from being 2 years old
1 (20%)
Other
4 (80%)
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How good is your memory ? (Original Post) steve2470 Sep 2014 OP
Long term memory is fine. However, I have acute AAADD sarge43 Sep 2014 #1
Other - Still really good (knock on wood) - nearly photographic. NRaleighLiberal Sep 2014 #2
very cool steve2470 Sep 2014 #8
I can remember entire days from 1987 shenmue Sep 2014 #3
i often walk around looking for them while holding them in my hand fizzgig Sep 2014 #12
Do you look for your cell phone while talking on it??? 2theleft Sep 2014 #20
i don't think i've done that one fizzgig Sep 2014 #21
If I could forget the things I don't want to remember. hobbit709 Sep 2014 #4
Both actually. Chan790 Sep 2014 #5
I forget how good it is (nt) UrbScotty Sep 2014 #6
Bad... Very very bad. Xyzse Sep 2014 #7
Very good in some ways, not so great in others. femmocrat Sep 2014 #9
Apparently, it's Perfectly Normal. Raffi Ella Sep 2014 #10
My short term is terrible sakabatou Sep 2014 #11
What's my name? MrScorpio Sep 2014 #13
It depends. Jamaal510 Sep 2014 #14
Well, it's.... What's the question again? n/t Ron Obvious Sep 2014 #15
clever :) nt steve2470 Sep 2014 #16
I remember my bartenders name... Callmecrazy Sep 2014 #17
What did you ask? Raine1967 Sep 2014 #18
I get lost in the house Tribalceltic Sep 2014 #19
WHat was the question? whistler162 Sep 2014 #22

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
1. Long term memory is fine. However, I have acute AAADD
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 10:01 AM
Sep 2014


"Why did I come into this room? Oh yeah, I'd better check the mail." Standing in the middle of the driveway, "Why did I come out here?"

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
12. i often walk around looking for them while holding them in my hand
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 01:31 PM
Sep 2014

i seriously would lose my butt if it weren't attached

2theleft

(1,136 posts)
20. Do you look for your cell phone while talking on it???
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 11:34 AM
Sep 2014

I do that about once a week. Sometimes I even say to the person I'm talking to "oh shit, I can't find my cell"... Then I hear laughter and realize where it is...

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
4. If I could forget the things I don't want to remember.
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 10:35 AM
Sep 2014

And remember the things I keep forgetting, things would be fine.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
5. Both actually.
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 10:35 AM
Sep 2014

I have eidetic memory and can recall entire book passages I read once a decade ago...but due to a concussion suffered in an assault when I was a kid, I have no memory before the age of ~7. At all. Nothing.

I sometimes think I remember things (e.g. my 4th birthday) and then when I tell people who were there what I think I remember, it in no way resembles reality.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
9. Very good in some ways, not so great in others.
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 12:06 PM
Sep 2014

Like most people, I imagine.

I am terrible at names but rarely forget a face.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
14. It depends.
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 04:55 PM
Sep 2014

I'm great at remembering trivial matters like people's zodiac signs and people's hometowns, but sometimes I have a hard time remembering faces.

Tribalceltic

(1,000 posts)
19. I get lost in the house
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 10:39 AM
Sep 2014

It's only a single wide trailer.

I had a stroke several years ago. I can remember things from the 70's and '80s,
I have trouble remembering anything from when Gore won the election to the present.

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