This morning as I stepped out of the shower I had a thought that I suddenly realised would be good to explore as a blog post (though it would be short). But by the time I had finished breakfast, the thought had gone.
I had the wierd urge to get into the shower and step out again, just to recapture the thought.
It didn’t work this time, but quite often in the kitchen if I just back track physically, I remember what I was going to do.
January 31st, 2013 at 8:11 am
Oh, Sidey. You are talking to Mr Forgetful here. I have started to keep a diary much more carefully, and ideas for poems keep getting lost like yours. I have a little scribble book which I intend to carry around and jot ideas in.
My Granny, long since gone now, used to call it “Old age and infirmary”
John
January 31st, 2013 at 3:14 pm
Thanks for the fellow feeling John, age is showing me all the ways it can “GET” me
January 31st, 2013 at 9:31 am
Think that happens quite a lot actually.
Read somewhere that if you go through a door, your mind sort of stops thoughts in one room to flow over to the other room – that’s why it helps if you turn and go back sometimes
January 31st, 2013 at 3:15 pm
It does help sometimes. Being back where you thought it can bring back the thought
January 31st, 2013 at 9:41 am
Hold that thought! … Oops, too late.
I know the feeling! I have gone to sleep after several verses of a simply brilliant Really Awful Rhyme have come to mind. Next morning, I remember perfectly well that I composed it and how good it was … but what it was about, or any part of it, is gone.
January 31st, 2013 at 3:15 pm
hehehe you need a dream-recorder
January 31st, 2013 at 10:48 am
Keep a notebook nearby! Failing that, repeat it over and over until you can find one.
January 31st, 2013 at 3:13 pm
Hard to do in the shower. There was a time when I had a marker pen on the bath ladge and wrote stuff on the wall
January 31st, 2013 at 4:17 pm
I like it!
January 31st, 2013 at 11:52 am
Almost like dreams….
January 31st, 2013 at 3:16 pm
exactly!
January 31st, 2013 at 2:30 pm
I have the same thing happen to me often. We need to design a thought to computer keyboard!
January 31st, 2013 at 3:16 pm
if I hav voiceactivated recording I can just imagine myself quailing at the rambling and muttering that goes on at home
January 31st, 2013 at 3:02 pm
I know exactly what you mean about back tracking. Sometimes it does work for me.
January 31st, 2013 at 3:16 pm
Its quite odd, but it does help sometimes
January 31st, 2013 at 5:47 pm
love the marker pen writing on the bathroom wall idea… must try it
January 31st, 2013 at 8:09 pm
you have to be sure it is the water based one that washes off BEFORE you start
January 31st, 2013 at 11:16 pm
This happens to me all of the time, Sideview!
February 1st, 2013 at 5:50 am
I am so glad it happens to others
February 1st, 2013 at 7:36 am
It never happens to me, at least not in the shower. I tend to fall asleep (not sleeping but dirfting) which dampens shower thinking. A good nap, no I mean a good shower lasts a minimum of thirty minutes.
I used to kick myself for not remembering, for not writing it down (which I have never ever done). I reason that if the ‘thought’ is truly worthy it will reinvent and live at some point as conceived or a unique hybrid at best; as you have just done by out witting the nature of physical memory with free form flash memory. You turned one experience into a story. Besides, Ruth pointed out to me the other day it is a far better path to think without the mind. Think within a ‘flash’ and see where it takes you.
February 1st, 2013 at 8:09 am
Business ideas ned writing down. Thought provokers need time to mature in the head.
February 2nd, 2013 at 7:28 pm
hahaha I’m not mad after all.. I also back track to remember the train of thought!!
February 2nd, 2013 at 11:23 pm
I think a lot of us do that
February 2nd, 2013 at 10:37 pm
I have to do that all the time. I am a deeply forgetful person and I must spend half my time at home backtracking to remember something. Really, I should tie knots in the dog’s neckerchief to remember really.
February 2nd, 2013 at 11:22 pm
And tie knots in the cats tail?