Memory block? Not the app. Memory fuzz? Not the app but something analysts do. No I've just had a 'memory lapse'.
It's so horrible when you go to do something and you genuinely can't remember what you were going to do. I've just gone to my phone to look at something, but ended up blankly looking at it. At the back of my mind flickered something which suggested I was looking at it for a reason, but my mind was a total blank. Usually I can think back to what I was doing just before I have the black moment, and it prompts me to recall why I was going to do whatever it is I appear to have forgotten. It didn't work this time. My mind went totally blank and the moment had gone. I suppose whatever I was going to look at will come back to me later maybe, or maybe it's not even that important so doesn't matter? I won't get stressed about it, but I do wonder why I get times where I am like this?
I am writing about memory lapse as apposed to memory loss. They are two completely different things. Both can be due to a number of reasons. Memory loss is often due to dementia or amnesia, serious medical conditions. Memory lapse can be due to the menopause, stress, tiredness and all sorts. So I'm not too worried, but I can only imagine what it must be like to really lose your memory. Very frightening. I suspect that I am just tired. Tired from lack of sleep for some reason last night, and tired from work. I'm also having to think about most of the stuff going on in Neil and my lives at the moment as he is working such long hours. I am trying to be very organised, and maybe deep inside my mind is having a little 'moment'?
The other reason is my age, of course! Sadly I am not getting any younger and obviously the brain ages with you. But it is incredibly frustrating to find myself standing in the hallway not knowing why I am there, or going upstairs and forgetting what I came up there for. I go through a lot of routines every day which should make it easy for me to remember things but it doesn't always work. I've left my phone on charge at home and got to work before I've remembered it's there. Not a real emergency as we have work phones, but as my aging parents may need me I prefer my mobile on me. I've got it down to an art now because I leave the tv on in the room I have my phone charging while I do the morning jobs before work. That way I have to go into the room to turn it off before I leave, and therefore the theory is that I will pick up my phone too. So far so good. I always check the kettle switch is facing the wall because one of our cats is a rule unto himself, and will insist on going on to the worktop when we are not in the kitchen. I would never want him to accidentally flick the switch...…...honestly, just don't laugh! I pat my pockets to make sure I have my keys before I leave the house. I once happily popped in to our porch and shut the door to the hallway behind me. To my utter horror I did not have the key to open the porch door to the outside, which was locked. Neither did I have the key to the automatically locking shut door to the hallway. I ended up trapped in the porch for two hours. I am not even going to bother to explain how I got out eventually, but my husband couldn't stop laughing.
I don't know if men get memory lapses? If they do then they are hiding it well, because only other woman have confessed to me they have them. I am now just like my mother when I can't recall people's names sometimes. People I see all the time. I couldn't remember a work colleagues name once, and I often gesture wildly at a person because I just don't know what to call them. It's frustrating, and annoying, and I feel really silly. A few years back I went to see my doctor because I was scared I was going mad forgetting things. He did some tests, asking me questions like what day of the week it was, who the prime minister is and so on, and then smiled and told me it was just normal to be a bit forgetful. In the end I have learnt to try and use links to help me if I get a memory lapse. For example I work backwards on what I am doing to see whatever made me go and do what I am doing. I make sure that I keep things like keys in the same place, and make sure I follow the same routine when use them. I write lists and place them in my phone cover. I have a blackboard in the kitchen and I write down anything I think I need to remember over the coming couple of days, like sending a birthday card, writing an email and so on.
My memory isn't bad. I have a lot to do at work, and working on a help desk is challenging and you have a wide variety of information to retain. I don't have any problem with that, so I know it's just tiredness most likely. But how irritating to have this. I still can't remember what I was going to look at on my phone either! Maybe, though, it's just my body's way of telling me I need to slow down and rest a bit? I am a firm believer in the body telling you what it needs you to do, so let's hope I remember to buy that huge bar of chocolate tomorrow. I am sure eating it will help my memory a great deal...……..
https://www.self.com/story/memory-lapse-causes
https://www.menopausenow.com/memory-lapses
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