Where was my brain

[mapuc]

Happens some days ago.

Was watching tv, when I suddenly remembered that i had to ask my sister something. Ok going to send a textmessage on my cellphone.

Where's my cellphone? I looked around on my coffee table nothing there.
Got up and went out into the hallway to look in my jacket pocket, not there either.

Ahh then it must be in the top drawer of my dresser. It was not there either. Then I closed the drawer and there right in front I saw it. Then my brain started to work and here's what have happened

While I was watching tv I had my cellphone in my hand, but was not aware of it. After I hade got up and on the way to the hallway I had placed my cellphone on the top of my dresse. I must have been in some kind of sleepmode.

Markus

[Spiced_Rum]

I know the feeling. On occasion putting my glasses into my shirt pocket while opening up a hot open (to stop the glasses steaming up), and then walking around the house looking for them and trying to work out where I had left them.:doh:

[Sailor Steve]

A very long time ago I wasted a full five minutes searching my apartment for my lost keys with my right hand, all the while twirling them in my left.

I have also more than once felt my glasses slipping and reached to push them up, only to realize they were in the other room because I was in the shower.

[Platapus]

It happens to us all. :yep:

Look on the bright side, at least you knew what you were looking for. Sometimes I forget what I was looking for but still look for it. :oops:

Once I find it, I can usually remember what I was looking for. :yep::huh::doh:

[Wolferz]

Alzheimers is scary isn't it?:03:

[Nippelspanner]

Alzheimers is scary isn't it?:03:

Who the hell are you?

[Wolferz]

Who the hell are you?

I don't know. I was hoping you could tell me .

[Nippelspanner]

I don't know. I was hoping you could tell ME.

Tell you...what? :doh:

[Wolferz]

Tell you...what? :doh:

Forget it.:-?:haha:

[Nippelspanner]

Forget it.:-?:haha:

:haha:

Ok, enough already, it really is a horrible disease... if I remember correctly.

[Red October1984]

:haha:

Ok, enough already, it really is a horrible disease... if I remember correctly.

What's a disease? :hmmm:

[Sailor Steve]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/Alzheimers_zps30de2b83.jpg (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/SailorSteve/media/Alzheimers_zps30de2b83.jpg.html)

[Stealhead]

Looks a bit like Jimbuna wearing a wig.

[Wolferz]

Nothing is ever lost and is always in the last place you look. Look there first.:03:

[Armistead]

A very long time ago I wasted a full five minutes searching my apartment for my lost keys with my right hand, all the while twirling them in my left.

I have also more than once felt my glasses slipping and reached to push them up, only to realize they were in the other room because I was in the shower.

I almost laughed when I read the OP. Not to jest the guy, but wait until he deals with the issues we do. I can't seem to remember anything anymore. My wife will see me searching madly for something, then ask me what I'm looking for. No matter what it is, she'll know exactly where it is without getting up to look.

[BrucePartington]

It doesn't take Alzheimer, or old age, to have such episodes. At this day and age, mental exhaustion is all too common. We now live at a very fast pace at work and in our social lives, frequently going "105% on the reactor".

I remember two funny episodes with my mother, years before she retired.

a) She was trying hard to push the laundry into the washing machine, but it just wouldn't go in.
She finally realised she was trying to shove the laundry in the fridge.:ping:

b) She had an old fashioned gas powered water heater, one you'd need to use a burning match to start the pilot flame.
Her friends had come over and they were chatting away in the kitchen, sipping tea. She then decided to do the dishes they'd used. The procedure is you light up a match, set the pilot flame aburn, and open the hot water tap.
Her mind just took a shortcut: lit up a match, and tried to set the "pilot water" aburn.
For a second she was lost as to why the match had gone out.:06:

Not the same thing, but I thought I'd share this as well.
My maternal grandfather was born in 1916, and he was never akin to evolution. (RIP)
In my youth I had this then "modern" looking telephone in my room, with push buttons, as opposed to the old fashioned rotary dial we had in the living room. And this "modern" phone was red, slim and rectangular (odd thing indeed, how ridiculous, God forbid).
A call came in, I answered it. It was for him. He then decided my phone was the closest one.
When he came into my room, he spent a moment staring at two odd looking objects sitting on my desk.
He finally picked up my grey Phillishave: "Hello?":rock:

[Stealhead]

Anyone watch that show "Brain Games"? I do not usually but I saw a section of an episode the other day.In it they where explaining how your brain functions to focus on the primary task.

In other words lets say that you normally when you get home you set your keys in certain location.After you do this a few times it becomes automatic more or less.

The problem arises when another activity occurs say talking to your wife or you dog or something.When you are doing that activity your brain is focused on it and not the other task.As a result you wind up forgetting what you did with your keys maybe you keep them in your hand and set them in another place like you pocket while you are paying attention to your dog.Then when you go for your keys they are not on the table where you usually set them because you put them in your pocket but did not realize it.

Myself anyway when I forget something it is usually a case of my usual routine getting interrupted.