January 13, 201412 yr About an hour and a half ago a coworker and I were discussing my recall. I have heard from a lot of people at how amazed they are at things I am able to remember about conversations or things that transpired. However, I am terrible at noticing things. If you flashed an image on my screen and took it away I couldn't tell you a thing about it. I can't tell you what type of shirt some guy was wearing. I couldn't tell you what color eyes people have, etc. My memory on things spoken to me, or that I hear, is just normal. However, if I see it or read it, it is a little spooky. I can tell you in a 600 page novel where something is, on which page (left or right), and where on the page. Same with numbers, a little Rain Man-ish.
January 13, 201412 yr Author My memory on things spoken to me, or that I hear, is just normal. However, if I see it or read it, it is a little spooky. I can tell you in a 600 page novel where something is, on which page (left or right), and where on the page. Same with numbers, a little Rain Man-ish. Probably crushed you when KMart left town.
January 13, 201412 yr I think remembering how to pronounce MentschTractGottLacht is harder than this brain study.
January 13, 201412 yr My long term memory is pretty good. What isn't good is remembering simple things sometimes like names of people I don't see a lot. Also in particular incidents I have bad short term memory only in specific situations, for instance, I can be in the shower in the morning and I will forget if I washed my hair already or not sometimes so several times I wash it twice......could be I'm still half asleep though lol. As far as long term memory, I can remember all the way back to my 3rd birthday party and just about everything from then on. I remember that party as if it were yesterday. Long term memory has always been very good, another example, in the Lone Survivor thread in this forum I put a little trivia post in there.....I can Remeber everything about the entire thing I'm asking about yet from the smallest details that span over a month that took place over 20 years ago but couldn't tell you half the names involved.
January 13, 201412 yr Does anyone worry about Alzheimer's? Does it run in your family? We've had too much of it from both my Mom & Dad's side of the family that it's a bit scary. It's no joke, but I heard a comic once say... "My Doctor just diagnosed me with Alzheimer's, so I said Doc what am I gonna do?... The Doctor told me to go home and forget about it"
January 13, 201412 yr Does anyone worry about Alzheimer's? Does it run in your family? We've had too much of it from both my Mom & Dad's side of the family that it's a bit scary. It's no joke, but I heard a comic once say... "My Doctor just diagnosed me with Alzheimer's, so I said Doc what am I gonna do?... The Doctor told me to go home and forget about it" Yes, I worry about it. Yes, it runs in my family. But my worry is for my kids, not for me. I hate they would have to watch me waste away like that. Of course, I may be worrying for nothing....they already think I'm crazy.
January 14, 201412 yr Actually, pretty cool, but not that amazing. The numbers replacing vowels or even mixing them, such as, taht for that is easily deciphered by the brain for those that have mastered reading. It really has little to do with a great memory and more to do with how you are wired to read. We actually don't read individual letters, but groups of letters many times in a mixed up order, that have a meaning to our brain and learning (generalizing). Cambridge has done numerous studies on this. Cool nonetheless. This becomes much more difficult when the vowels and consonants are grouped tgteeohr. You will have to stop and think rather than read it without thinking.
January 14, 201412 yr Yes, I worry about it. Yes, it runs in my family. But my worry is for my kids, not for me. I hate they would have to watch me waste away like that. Of course, I may be worrying for nothing....they already think I'm crazy. I hear you. I want to stay independent for as long as possible, and hopefully never become a burden to anyone. It's working out for now, but God only knows what the future holds. I guess that I would be cool with never being diagnosed with anything, and after a good long life, just sorta drift off one night in my sleep. I do very much like to sleep, and find it to be one of the most wonderful things about living. If I would die doing it, (a long long time from now), That would be fine by me.
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