Is anyone forgetful frequently?

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I thought of how to solve this problem years ago, when I learned to note things down in a notebook which fits in my shirt pocket.

I can't count high enough to tell you how many times I've driven 10 miles to town and discovered I left the silly note book on the kitchen table after (ohhh sooo) carfully noting the errands I have to run. It would be a joke, if it weren't so true.

Pops

Yea I have bad short-term memory

"My husband has to remind me to eat, which is annoying."

Don't you get hungry? I don't understand this one.

How does he remind you to eat?

As for my own memory, I will never remember to look at a list. Everything is mental with me. I keep it all up in my head. Sometimes, I'll mark the calendar with a marker. I tell myself that I need to remember it, and my brain stores it. Otherwise, no, it's lost.

I find mysel frepeating numbers and dates and things inside my head. Still, I can't imagine relying on a list. This seems so unreliable to me--almost scary to depend on an external item for such important information. When it's in my head it is personalized and stored and I always remember what I need to. It is very rare that I miss a date or important event.

equinn

I don't get it neither lol. I can see if you forget phone numbers, birthdays, remote, etc... but when you're hungry? Doesn't your stomach growling reminds you?

i have a terrible time with remembering dates and times I went a whole day thinking it was Thursday when it was actually Monday.

I think it just means your thinking of other things. When I have a lot to think about I'm very forgetful, when there is less to handle, I find it easier to focus on remembering little things

I am very forgetful which is why I have to stay VERY organized and use a calendar to remind myself to even do such things as pay bills. EEK! When we were placed with our baby for adoption last December, I was so scatterbrained that I forgot to pay bills and ended up with a bunch of late fees. I get so easily distracted that I'll completely forget why I walked into a room or why I'm going somewhere.

I also forget dates, but not actually. I'll remember the dates of occasions, but I forget that that date is that day. Does that make sense? I'll call my sister the day after her b-day because I didn't realize the day before was the 3rd. Good thing my siblings are used to it by now.

I can remember things I have read and remember precise dates of important events in my life, but I sometimes have had to go back to get items such as pens and pencils that I left on a desk or table. When I'm making coffee, I double check to see if I pressed the "auto" button. I guess I have what you call "senior moments" and I'm only 43.

I'm terribly forgetful, but it seems to strike randomly. Also, I have no memory of time beyond about a week at any given time so unless I have a specific date attached to a specific memory very firmly, it's all the same whether it happened last month or a year ago. It's very frustrating.

am have a badly working/short term memory,walk through door way-and forget it's open,things go as quickly as that and am have to constantly re read everything to know what am doing if its something being written out.
am also think it's a selective memory,eg,it seems to lose things not matching favourite things,even when am really need them.
though am have awesome long term memory,its great because people think they get away with anything including abuse,with am but a long time after,am type it out in clear letters for them-they come out with a load of excuses,and then the 'she's making it up,she doesnt have a memory problem at all' line.
am can remember the smallest of details from baby/toddler age onwards,am can also ID songs am havent heard for years from the intro beat.

very much yes
I'll raise my hand to ask a question in school, and then when I get called on by the teacher I forget what I wanted to say, this happens about a third of the time.

i'm not sure it is a question of really forgetting...

i cannot remember anything when i'm doing something else,
so if i put on a pot of water to boil and do not put on the kitchen clock to remind me,
then go back to my computer for instance,
the pot will burn black, and i'll only realise it when it starts smelling.
i have tried it, like 50 times and 49/50 the pot is black (the one time i did not forget was because i felt like having some tea while i had already put on the water, which immediately reminded me that i had)

when i hear that kitchen clock bell ring, i do not have to think about what it is, so it is not as if i don't know it anymore
it is that while i'm doing something i'm so focussed that the rest of the world (and also the kitchen) dissapears from my mind

if i can hear it, i won't forget it, cause i'll hear the boiling.

so i need lists with what to do all the time, even if it is only 2 minutes later, i have to write it down and make sure that it is placed there where i'll look at it (otherwise i'll just forget to look at the note of course)

Mine used to be photographic to the point that I never studied any material from grade school through undergraduate in my spare time, or if I did I'd just read 200 pages of textbooks the night before and blow the curve the next day.

Then I had this dumb little idea of assimilating myself into society by flogging myself into a heightened/frenzied state of awareness so I could keep up with all the new rules I had to learn. I learned the rules alright, but went from remembering everything to remembering nothing.

Now I'm in the goldfish bowl with several people here.

I forget things all the time; where I've put my keys, my wallet, my phone. I have occasions when I skip days (being that I cannot for the life of me remember what I did the day before) and I always end up a day behind (date wise)

I forget to eat as well. I have the "Oh, I'll go and get something to eat in a minute" then forget to actually go get something to eat.

My mum always tell me 'before you leave the room, look around to see if you've forgotten anything'. Well, yes, I would, if I'd remember to look around before I leave the room

Of course I get hungry, but some of the meds I take mess with my stomach and I've "learned" to cope with the pain (similar to symptoms of an ulcer without the bleeding), so it's hard for me to tell when it's just the regular stomach pain I feel or a hunger pang. Also what happens is that I get so focused and intent on what I'm doing that I ignore myself altogether and keep working. The only thing I can't ignore is a bathroom break. When Nature calls, I gotta answer the phone.

I think I'd be better off if I were a robot. I keep expecting my body to continue functioning while my mind is on loftier things. Unfortunately, real life doesn't work that way.

Haven't you ever been so focused on something that you don't notice time flying by? I could be working on a new art project and sit down at my desk at 8:00AM in the morning and get so focused that by the time I look up at the clock again, it's almost 3:00 in the afternoon. I frequently work through lunch and even my boss has to come over around noon and tell me to get out of the office for an hour. My husband, knowing this, will call me around 1:00pm and ask me if I've taken a lunch break yet and if I admit I haven't, he'll tell me to hang up the phone, clock out and go eat. I read somewhere that Thomas Edison had the same problem - skipping meals because he was so focused on his projects. Unfortunately I'm not inventing anything useful like the light bulb, I'm designing advertisements. You'll hear a lot about obsessions here. Graphic design is one of my obsessions that I've managed to turn into a profitable endeavor.