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Brain Glitch...

Quicken Anja

As we welcome the month of May, we'd like ask you—

What’s a completely normal thing your brain just refuses to do correctly?

For me: the second I set something down (anything), it immediately stops existing. Cue me looking for it 2 seconds later like it vanished into another dimension.

How about you? Be honest… we all have one 😅

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Quicken Alyssa

Literally remembering anything at all. LOL, I always joke that I have the memory of a goldfish. 😄

I attribute this to having high stress at times and just a lot going on in general. So I think my brain just discards most everything once it reaches whatever it considers the day's max capacity.

Some days are easier than others. 😁 I probably remember more than I give myself credit for.

Quicken Kristina

I guess I'd call it "creative hearing". For whatever reason, when I don't quite catch what someone is saying, my brain will fill in the blanks with the most ridiculous/silly things possible.

Sports! I am very active in multiple sports. But as a spectator tho I may enjoy the event, I won't remember any player, team, season, schedules, score, rules … pretty much zero. My brain is just not wired to remember them. The silver lining is that I don't have to worry about missing any sporting events.

Palace

Use to think in younger days, most folks are trustworthy 😇 Then, BINGO, burned a few times. Backed off that thought pattern a bit. Now, in my so-called Golden Years; this ole brain of mine thinks: difficult to trust anyone now days. Everyone has an angle, got to figure it out for my own good. So thinking I need to get my ole brain a bit more normal, trusting folks just a tab more; but, "Not Too Much? 🤔 😉

MHSwizzleStick

Listening when someone tell me their name...

No matter how much I tell myself that NEXT time, when someone tells me their name, I need to listen and remember it. It does no good. Every time I meet someone, we shake hands, they tell me their name, and it goes in one ear and out the other. ARRGH!

Quicken Anja

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20552553#Comment_20552553

@MHSwizzleStick That is definitely a problem I've been guilty of as well! 😅

Quicken Carlos

For me, it’s remembering why I walked into a room. I’ll be halfway across the house with full confidence, then just stand there like, “So… what was the mission again?” 😅

gtgerbo

For me, its walking up to the microwave oven to heat a cup of water (something I normally do every day) and having my mind go blank on how to set the microwave. It's a sign of age.

John_in_NC

Should this question be "brain glitch" or "brain glitches as we age"?

MSStateDawg

When I meet a new person, if they look a lot like another person I've known for years, my brain will solidify a neural pathway that forces me to give the new person the name of the one I already knew.

It happens over and over and over. When I see the new person again, the first thought is to call them the wrong name…then I think…then I remember their actual name.

Drives me nuts and no memory method I've tried has been able to fix this.

Quicken Anja

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20553495#Comment_20553495

I do this with TV/movie characters that resemble people I know in real life. 😅 I rarely remember all the character names right away, especially if they’re not a main character. So if they remind me of someone IRL, my brain just starts referring to them as that person instead.

Palace

I use 'word or character association' to remember someone's name (course it doesn't always work) 😏 For example, a relative of mine recently remarried. Just so happened that her first name happened to be nickname of a favorite relative. So when I see her again think, what's her name? Oh yea, she's got the same name as my favorite relative! Got another friend who married a very 'Unique' type of lady. So to remember her name, gave her the moniker Daffy Duck 🤭 Of course, I've been called a few 'monikers' myself, believe it or not 😉🤣

Quicken Alyssa

I can remember random useless information from 20 years ago, but if someone tells me to remind them to do something, or there's a task I need to do in 10 minutes, it evaporates instantly.

skeleton567

My latest glitch is forgetting to put my coffee cup under the brewer before brewing my K-cup coffee. Fortunately, the cup holder usually catches the bulk of the brew, so I can save it.

MSStateDawg

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20553641#Comment_20553641

If it makes you feel better…

I sometimes setup the coffee maker at night and set the timer to have in the morning a lovely aroma from the giant pool of coffee in the kitchen floor as I forget to empty the carafe the night before.

I've only done this 6 or 7 times, though.

NotACPA

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20553641#Comment_20553641

Except for when I'm drinking from it, or washing it after use, my coffee mug stays under my K-cup brewer.

HOWEVER, after washing it, I place it upside down so that it dries.

Fortunately, I put a bit of sugar in the cup before the brew, so I've not had your accident, but I can readily see how it might happen … OR, I could forget to add the sugar and have the brewer do it's thing into an upside down mug