Memory Loss

[Sean Regan]

I found this quite amusing.

I started to watch a serial drama on Netflix last night.
One of the main characters is a female prosecutor.
At the beginning of the first episode, she takes her father, a recently retired judge, to the doctors.

Why do main characters in detective dramas, always have to have "personal baggage," which sometimes has nothing to do with the plot? But maybe not in this case.

The doctor, places three illustrations of flowers on A5 paper in front of him and names them.
She takes them away and asks him all sorts of questions, with which he has no problems answering.

She finally asks him to name the three flowers. He can only manage the first, so he storms out of the surgery.
She then goes on to talk to his daughter about the early onset of Alzheimer's.

I'd either read about this common test, or seen it used in another drama.
But do you know what? I could remember the names of the first two flowers, but still can't name the third!
and I knew what was coming!

But I've not done any "storming."

I think I've always had a "selective memory." I also subscribe to the Homer Simpson philosophy.
"Your brain has a finite capacity, to remember something new, your brain has to forget something."

 

[oneeye]

I found this quite amusing.

I started to watch a serial drama on Netflix last night.
One of the main characters is a female prosecutor.
At the beginning of the first episode, she takes her father, a recently retired judge, to the doctors.

Why do main characters in detective dramas, always have to have "personal baggage," which sometimes has nothing to do with the plot? But maybe not in this case.

The doctor, places three illustrations of flowers on A5 paper in front of him and names them.
She takes them away and asks him all sorts of questions, with which he has no problems answering.

She finally asks him to name the three flowers. He can only manage the first, so he storms out of the surgery.
She then goes on to talk to his daughter about the early onset of Alzheimer's.

I'd either read about this common test, or seen it used in another drama.
But do you know what? I could remember the names of the first two flowers, but still can't name the third!
and I knew what was coming!

But I've not done any "storming."

I think I've always had a "selective memory." I also subscribe to the Homer Simpson philosophy.
"Your brain has a finite capacity, to remember something new, your brain has to forget something."

One good thing about having a bad memory is one forgets they have it.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I find I can't remember simple names sometimes, like trying to tell a friend it was the first time I had seen aphids on buddleia, "You know, that purple flowering bush that spreads seed everywhere."
Then there was the story of the guy whose memory was completely gone, quite happy, spent his time watching his favourite movie three times a day, fresh every time.

 

[hawil]

I can relate to this so much! Selective memory is definitely a thing, I often forget little details even when I know what’s coming. I’ve seen similar memory tests too, and they always trip me up. By the way, I recently watched a drama on Vix called Todo Por Mi Hogar, and it also had a storyline about a parent struggling with memory loss. It really hit home in a similar way.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I'd completely forgotten this thread.

 

[Owdboggy]

I can remember the names of plants until someone asks me what it is. People's names? Hopeless. Never could.