risingphoenix wrote:
I've quite some time been wondering what this is about: When I have a conversation with someone and simultaneously someone else is talking I get so distracted by that that I can't follow "my" conversation anymore. It's not like I will turn my full attention then to the other speaker, but that I will simply notice that he speaks. The consequence of this is however that I have to make an extreme effort to listen to what my conversation partner is saying and when it's my turn to talk I will constantly forget what I just wanted to say and just constantly make pauses and get a blank stare some seconds, trying to reorganize my thoughts again and figure out like, which words should come out of my mouth next and what topic we are on again at all. It's not entirely impossible to carry on the conversation, but almost.
Strangely enough I'm especially distracted when one or two other people speak and my environment is silent otherwise but when I'm in a restaurant or something with music and lots of chatter around I don't seem to have that problem so much (I will get quickly annoyed by all the noise though).
Yup.. I get this all the time.
06 Apr 2007, 6:50 am
