Thread: A Wandering Mind

Yeah that happens to me too. Sometimes I'll have what seem like brilliant ideas but when I try to think back, I can't remember them.

Same thing happens to me. I'll be thinking of something genius, but then..."Oooh, look! A rainbow!"...and then I have no idea what I was just thinking about.

Yes. Sometimes I put my head down in class and have a slight dream, and then when the bell rings I can't remember a single thing that just happened. It's pretty annoying actually.

short term memory loss......
just kidding.. that happens to me alot. and it gets frustrating.. so i have to think back one thought at a time.. and sometimes even then it doesnt even work.. mabey one should have a recorder on their person at all times, to record thoughts then you wont forget them... hmmm...

~R~

I actually use to have this problem, but have overcome it easy enough.

The trick is, kinda like DDK said, think back one thought at a time. Use the Associative Process, associate each thought with another, or something familiar that will remind you of that thought, and when your thinking backwards to a certain thought, think of what you associated with it, and your thought train will come back to you very easily.

yeah , for me its pretty common..... i call it short term memory !

Hmm, I find I am very good at remembering my own thoughts. If I go somewhere I haven't been in a few months, I can still remember what I was thinking last time I was there, which actually is kinda scary.

Maybe it's just different for different people.

I think this memory lapse is a sign of being in a state of light meditation. This sometimes happens to me, if I'm working on a drawing or painting I'll just get "lost" - feels like I'm in a trance. Except that, I don't actually realize I was in this trance until AFTER I snap out of it.

I think when your mind "wanders" you're brain waves reach an amplitude level which is the same as when you're in stage II or III of sleep.