Forget Remembering

[Turnover]

When you thinking of something you want to say/write/do, but then you forget what it is. Why is it we have that feeling like we remember there is something we we're thinking but have no clue what it is?

I thought about that when I wanted to say something earlier but then I forgot what the hell I wanted to say all I could think was that there was something I wanted say. When I remembered it was no big deal, completely insignificant to say it, but I just kept racking my brain to try and figure it out what I was going to say.

What is that feeling that tells me I was going to say something. Its like leaning back into a a foggy cave. Is it called forgetting? Is that an emotion?

[stillwantmore2]

Very good question. I think it's similar to but of course not exactly like "deja vu". It's real, and you know when you experience it, but hard to explain.

[MAXAMEYES]

A brain is like swiss cheese; when you form a thought, any thought, your brain creates a hole to tuck it into. But if you drop that thought on the floor before you can tuck in snuggy all yer left is the empty hole. I think the medical term is "Duh".

[Crazy Doc]

I don't know what it's called Turnover. But I do remember this: On my first LSD trip, long long ago. A buddy was wearing a shirt that said "Time flies but airplanes crash". I believe it was the title of a punk song, likely by the Subhumans.

Anyway-I really got stuck on this confusing phrase for an hour anyway. I put a lot of thought into it. Later (after the trip) I wrote a lengthy paper about it. It involved "The Thought Vortex" and the idea bin, an alpha and omega situation. But I envisioned all these tiny men-construction worker types who worked in your brain (synapses perhaps). All I remember is that when a thought formed, they had to put it on a piece of paper and make a paper airplane... then throw it from one worker to the next. So the thing began in the idea bin, and then had to be fed to the thought vortex, via a line of construction workers throwing airplanes. The workers at the thought vortex wore hazmat suits and such and had to surgically remove the idea from the paper so it could be fed into the thought vortex in a sanitized fashion. These guys had to be real careful... if they fell in or dropped too much paper in, you'd go mad :)

Back to the issue... sometimes one would have a bad throw... and the airplane would accidentally fly down the wrong passageway and get lost... causing a huge delay between the idea bin and the thought vortex. This especially happened if you were on drugs or alcohol as the little men too would be drugged or drunk, and not throw the planes with as much precision-thus many more ideas get lost.


As a result, the feeling is indeed like you describe. Or like your brain is skipping like a record, or a car stuck in the mud-tires spinning with no action... there is a "gap in the thought vortex" in my terminology...

On the bright side.... by this theory, the plane is still there somewhere, with your idea safely tucked inside. Sooner or later one of the little men will come along and find it and get it back into the right passageway and with a little luck it will finally find its way to the thought vortex.

[Turnover]

A brain is like swiss cheese; when you form a thought, any thought, your brain creates a hole to tuck it into. But if you drop that thought on the floor before you can tuck in snuggy all yer left is the empty hole. I think the medical term is "Duh".

I never knew the human brain was SO complicated..