Memory

[Adagio]

How good is your memory?

Am I the only one who's got a real annoying problem with my memory?

I have a hard time even remember easy phone numbers... Took me a week before I could remember my roommates phone number, which goes a little like this: 20 20 22 24

Whenever I have to do some culculations in my head, I have to write the temporary numbers down, otherwise I forget them. I'm talking about having to write 56 down when having to add 56 and 34

[Ari Rahikkala]

Took me a week before I could remember my roommates phone number

Stop whining. The first time in my life I remembered my phone number (of course I can not remember when I got the phone and service in question) was... today. OTOH, there's a couple of passwords (some of them not mine) that I never seem to forget... er... actually, now that I think of it, I have forgotten one of those passwords...

[Q Classic]

well, it's samsung, which is industry standard, so i wager it's pretty good.



that said, my head memory is about average, although i tend to retain trivia much longer than normal.

[Bosh]

I can't remember random things like names (had a hellish time memorizing the names of my over-100 students) and phone numbers but information that fits together in a rational manner. So for example I can't remember names of people who were on my hall in college but I could sit down now and write a decent paper on the Oprichnina when I haven't heard anything about it since my russian history class three years ago.

[Space05us]

I can sometimes remember, oh look its almost time for, I have to go eat breakfast.

[Mercator]

I can remember numbers and faces really well, names a bit less. I have a hard time remembering what I did 15 minutes ago though.

[MrFun]

I came into this thread to post something, but now I forgot what I wanted to post.

[st_swithin]

If I get too much information all at once, important stuff gets squeezed out of my brain. Don't tell me your name! I'll forget where I live!

[ICBM]

I can remember 200 digits of pi, but I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning.

[Dis]

my memory sucks. I love history, but have trouble remember all of it.

It really limited my post high school learning opportunities. I may be super smart (if not the smartest ), but I can't remember much.

[Ben Kenobi]

I can generally give the gist of any of my lectures after I have sat through them.

However, I can't remember names of people I work with on a regular basis.

[st_swithin]

I can't remember people's names, but I can't remember faces either. I find that the best way to get around that is to act as though you are friends with every person you see. People at work will think you're the friendliest person they've ever met, but really, you have no idea who those people are. Then you can get used to walking around without wearing your glasses.

[Sikander]

I have a good memory in general, and in some ways excellent. It depends somewhat on mood, in certain frames of mind I can remember a phone number we had for a year when I was 9 years old. In other frames of mind I can arrive at the end of a thought without recalling the beginning or middle.

[Bereta_Eder]

If a number a face or a name interests me I'll seldom forget it. If it doesn't interest me I may have forgotten it 2 seconds after they told me.

[Jon Miller]

I have a terrible memory for something things and will remember others randomly well

JM