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I have occasional celebrity name blindness, or whatever.

Some days I can name every celebrity I see in a picture, and other days I can't pull up a single one. I recognize the woman in the picture, but I can't recall her name at the moment, but maybe I will be able to tomorrow.

A while back, someone posted a picture of the Rolling Stones, and I knew every name, but Mick Jagger's.

Robert De Niro, Al Pachino, Christopher Walken, Matthew McConaughey are all names I've "misplaced" recently. At the same time, I can get Woody Harrelson, though--when I was commenting about Brothers.

This isn't new, I've had this weird affliction my whole life, I think.

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I should research thing to see if it can help with stuff. Opening up laptop, unlock, open 97th tab, select search box...what was thing again?!

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lemmy.world

Is there a name for the sensation of currently forgetting something you just had in mind?

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I guess. I can actually feel a thought slipping though. Tip of the tongue meets Remembrall.

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This is me working late. Checklists become my only hope. That and breaking down the tasks into absurdly smaller tasks.

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Waste 15 minutes trying to figure out the game changing idea i had that I'm convinced is never coming back

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lemmy.today

Jokes aside, but if you experience this and you had enough sleep, then you're dying

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Not necessarily. If they're moving around, it could be the Doorway Effect. An actual psychological phenomenon where we tend to forget things when we go through a door, or some other transition to a different location/environment.

Basically a trick our brain uses for more efficient memory back-firing on us.

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