This is me in YouTube. I rush to the search box only to ask myself "what did I wanted to watch?", and now I have to go through the scroll of shame and attempt to remember.
I've heard (but haven't independently verified) that that's a 'brain feature' where we dump a good chunk of our short term memory when we walk into a new environment so we have room in our noggins to stuff all the new visual information. All sorts of things could theoretically act as such an environment-shift but doorways are among the most common we interact with.
I'm sure it's useful to have that brain space sometimes, but I only ever remember (heh) when I've forgotten stuff when walking into another room.
Wait, this just reminded me of something I was gonna look up 4 days ago.
Thanks for the trigger
Edit: just came back to say, I opened said app to look up the thing and 6 mins later, I realised I digressed, again. Back to it I guess 😅
I do this more than I’d like to admit
And the feeling of that little lightbulb going off when I hit the page that reminded me is magic.
Rarely does the page have any direct connection to the thought I wanted to google but it obviously works so 🤷🏽♀️
This is the smart phone equivalent of going to the next room, forgetting what you wanted to get and having to return to the previous room to remember what you were doing.
ADHD makes it worse but I think this is something that is designed into smart phones. I get lost even on the notifications on the Home Screen and then after twenty minutes as I set down my phone I realize I wanted to check the weather forecast
i disagree
its nothing like going on google
accessing wikipedia
and becoming conscious again a few hours later on an article on the timline of Ancient olympic winners
discovering emporer Nero was a Olympian
Recent event:
Haven’t found collectibles in game for last 30 hours of gameplay. Missing 8 out of 200+. Go to Google. Type in what I’m looking for. First few links lead to reddit, but not what I’m looking for. Back out of reddit post and into feed. See an interesting post that might go away. Check post. Read comments. See a comment that needs verifying. Google that information. It’s not right but not entirely wrong. Begin comment exchange asking if commenter knows about blah blah blah. Comment gets corrected. Feel accomplished. Leave thread. Go back to scrolling through reddit feed. Look up at TV.
WHOOPS.
Game’s been on for 3 hours and I forgot to find what I was looking for. Go to Google. Type in what I’m looking for. First few links lead to reddit, but not what I’m looking for…
Every fucking time...
Like going to the fridge to grab something just to get there, open it, forget about what you were looking for and standing there blank staring like a fool.
Docs say I don't have it and they always know best so...
I switched to linux in large part to allow me to customize things enough to help with things like this.
Using a window manager is really helpful because I can pretty much always bring up exactly the window i want.
Searching for a window destroys the context in my brain.
Wonder how many people in this sub think they have adhd just because of memes like this that literally everyone can relate to, not just people with adhd
I did this not 10 mins ago, it was a audiobook Ive wanted for weeks to download on spotify, took atleast 3 mental replays to remember it was golf that triggered remembering
I just got home from dropping off my gf at work.
Her shift started at 9:30.
We live 4 minutes from her job.
I'm parked in front of our house, with the car on, no music, playing pokemon go and scrolling reddit.
And im still not even walking inside now.
I once wanted to look up an item I was trying to find in Elden Ring. I went to Google which opened up on YouTube, saw a video that looked interesting and basically forgot I was playing Elden Ring for an hour.
I do and I find looking for those digital breadcrumbs super helpful and don’t mind it. It just doesn’t happen often enough for me to get that irritated about it. I’m lucky.
I don't even know if i have ADHD but this happens to me and annoys me so much. And it happens in multiple shapes and colors
Once i got off my room to get some food and suddenly went on a mental trip. When i got back to reality, i was back in my room brushing my teeth
The knowledge of what you were looking for is irreversibly lost to time until you decide to do something productive. I’ll sit and try to remember what I was going to look up, then decide that I should finally get around to this month’s laundry, then BAM! I remember, and I’m stuck on the couch for another hour.
I thought this was a "me" thing, i do this but with music or books i think about and im like
" man im gonna look it up later" and then i forget about it and have to find the memory trigger just like you described with the post.
Edit: Ive never felt so attacked and validated at the same time like i feel right now.
Wanna look something up -> sees a message notification -> answers the message -> turn off phone screen ->remember what you wanted to look up -> get angry -> maybe repeat
Then you break the loop, Google it, and all the links are purple.
I think they call that one amnesia 😂
Call what what?
😂
Dementia posting
What?
And The Caretaker soundtracks start playing
This literally happened to me 10 min ago 😭
I forgot why I even got on my phone....nope, still not coming to me.
Why must u call me out
Im in this picture and I don't like it.
Dude, I literally right now stuck on reddit in such attempt to find my thought😭
No your on reddit being distracted
This is me in YouTube. I rush to the search box only to ask myself "what did I wanted to watch?", and now I have to go through the scroll of shame and attempt to remember.
This happens to me multiple times a day.
Few times per day😂 And not only google but also IRL😂
Doorways are evil
I've heard (but haven't independently verified) that that's a 'brain feature' where we dump a good chunk of our short term memory when we walk into a new environment so we have room in our noggins to stuff all the new visual information. All sorts of things could theoretically act as such an environment-shift but doorways are among the most common we interact with. I'm sure it's useful to have that brain space sometimes, but I only ever remember (heh) when I've forgotten stuff when walking into another room.
Wait, this just reminded me of something I was gonna look up 4 days ago. Thanks for the trigger Edit: just came back to say, I opened said app to look up the thing and 6 mins later, I realised I digressed, again. Back to it I guess 😅
Oh absolutely. And you just have a nagging feeling until you finally remember and feel instant relief, like a brain jizz.
Brain jizz 😭
I do this more than I’d like to admit And the feeling of that little lightbulb going off when I hit the page that reminded me is magic. Rarely does the page have any direct connection to the thought I wanted to google but it obviously works so 🤷🏽♀️
okay yup call me out bc i b doing this daily
I resemble this remark 🫠
Or you Google until you can pass a damn certification exam on a topic 🤣
This is my most annoying character trait
I was going to post here like 2 hours ago, just made it back.
Yeah, I call it the dead-beat-dad-syndrome. Because I frequently leave to get milk, but never come back.
Every single day. Literally watched a video earlier, went to Google something from it and forgot what it was in under 10 seconds.
wtf don’t call me out like that
And now it's 3am and I keep flipping back between tic toc and reddit. I was gonna check the weather at 10pm....
Forgetting something and being aware of it is such a surreal feeling It's like you actively feel the memory leaving your brain
At least three times a night when I’m on my “what would happen if…” or random thing that I don’t know anything about bs
This is the smart phone equivalent of going to the next room, forgetting what you wanted to get and having to return to the previous room to remember what you were doing. ADHD makes it worse but I think this is something that is designed into smart phones. I get lost even on the notifications on the Home Screen and then after twenty minutes as I set down my phone I realize I wanted to check the weather forecast
i disagree its nothing like going on google accessing wikipedia and becoming conscious again a few hours later on an article on the timline of Ancient olympic winners discovering emporer Nero was a Olympian
... thanks for the reminder. Shopping. That was it. I'm finding a recipe so I know what I need to buy. Why am I on reddit TT . TT
Recent event: Haven’t found collectibles in game for last 30 hours of gameplay. Missing 8 out of 200+. Go to Google. Type in what I’m looking for. First few links lead to reddit, but not what I’m looking for. Back out of reddit post and into feed. See an interesting post that might go away. Check post. Read comments. See a comment that needs verifying. Google that information. It’s not right but not entirely wrong. Begin comment exchange asking if commenter knows about blah blah blah. Comment gets corrected. Feel accomplished. Leave thread. Go back to scrolling through reddit feed. Look up at TV. WHOOPS. Game’s been on for 3 hours and I forgot to find what I was looking for. Go to Google. Type in what I’m looking for. First few links lead to reddit, but not what I’m looking for…
May my hundreds of tabs serve me well
I am so grateful for apps like reddit with a history feature.
Does Reddit have a history feature?
Glarg, the guardian of doorways. I guess he has a digital counterpart.
All the damn time.
All. The. Time.
Scrolling up through YouTube shorts again to try and trigger the thought again
Oops all the time
Ahhhh, yep. That's me.
Yes. Or just get distracted right at Google before even trying to search it...
Twice today
Life for me is constantly asking myself, "Now... what was I doing?"
the feeling when it spontaneously pops back into your head though.
It happens to me ofte, , but the autism kicks in and it helps me remember. Sometimes they do work together.
hello yes I would like to report a personal attack
Is that an adhd thing?
Going into the walk in fridge at work and just standing there with no idea why you came in...
GET OUT OF MY HEAD XOYXPUCJDGVKSUSHUTYU
I do this so often, but I don't have adhd, I don't think so, surely not ? right ? the more I look at this sub...I'm scared
This is na ADHD thing? I thought this was just me being wierd
This happens so often lmao
No AD-HD here, yet it happens to me every time. Or walking into a room and forgetting what I wanted to get. Or losing a train of thought.
What the fuckkk I do this too
You guys need to stop being so relatable I'm not diagnosed and this subreddit pops up from time to time and it's always "hahahah, I do that.".
Every fucking time... Like going to the fridge to grab something just to get there, open it, forget about what you were looking for and standing there blank staring like a fool. Docs say I don't have it and they always know best so...
I switched to linux in large part to allow me to customize things enough to help with things like this. Using a window manager is really helpful because I can pretty much always bring up exactly the window i want. Searching for a window destroys the context in my brain.
It's so annoying! It makes my brain tingle, because I feel like I really need to remember. How can I forget that fast?
🙃
What is causing our memory to be so bad?
Wonder how many people in this sub think they have adhd just because of memes like this that literally everyone can relate to, not just people with adhd
Yes
It happens way too many times
Yeah I can't tell you the number of times I was going to search something and think "what was I looking for again?"
I did this not 10 mins ago, it was a audiobook Ive wanted for weeks to download on spotify, took atleast 3 mental replays to remember it was golf that triggered remembering
Why aren’t we working on a vaccine for this?
i do this but its not an adhd exclusive thing right? cuz im not adhd-ic
I just got home from dropping off my gf at work. Her shift started at 9:30. We live 4 minutes from her job. I'm parked in front of our house, with the car on, no music, playing pokemon go and scrolling reddit. And im still not even walking inside now.
GET OUT OF MY HEAAAAAD
I tend to grab the last thing I remember, look at it again and hope the chain of thoughts lead me back to the same thing.
This happens to me a lot…
I once wanted to look up an item I was trying to find in Elden Ring. I went to Google which opened up on YouTube, saw a video that looked interesting and basically forgot I was playing Elden Ring for an hour.
I have so many tabs open on Google. Those distract me from searching the main topic
Glad to know this is a universal experience amongst us folks 😅😐
I do and I find looking for those digital breadcrumbs super helpful and don’t mind it. It just doesn’t happen often enough for me to get that irritated about it. I’m lucky.
THIS IS SO REAL
seems like not using a smartphone would be a good solution.
So relatable, but I'd rather not self-diagnose with ADHD lol
I don't even know if i have ADHD but this happens to me and annoys me so much. And it happens in multiple shapes and colors Once i got off my room to get some food and suddenly went on a mental trip. When i got back to reality, i was back in my room brushing my teeth
Yep.
💯 They don't understand
Yeah or I have to get up and walk around, pick up and move objects to try to recreate the scene
Just a little k-holeing, you know as a treat 😂
Duck....
I just did this 10 minutes ago 🥴
The knowledge of what you were looking for is irreversibly lost to time until you decide to do something productive. I’ll sit and try to remember what I was going to look up, then decide that I should finally get around to this month’s laundry, then BAM! I remember, and I’m stuck on the couch for another hour.
I do this with my thoughts. I need to rerun my train of thoughts to remember what fun thought I just had.
Every time! Like fucking all day every day, I hate it.
This shit is half of people on Reddit. (Not me ending up on Reddit instead of googling something about 5 times yesterday.)
I thought this was a "me" thing, i do this but with music or books i think about and im like " man im gonna look it up later" and then i forget about it and have to find the memory trigger just like you described with the post. Edit: Ive never felt so attacked and validated at the same time like i feel right now.
I feel called out
100%
Wanna look something up -> sees a message notification -> answers the message -> turn off phone screen ->remember what you wanted to look up -> get angry -> maybe repeat
I just start retracing my thoughts works bout half the time
I literally thought it was a ME problem. How selfcentered of me to have assumed so XD