Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 10:42 PM

In the recent 'Tribute to Slim Dusty' TV special - Aussie made and shown on aussie TV - there were several Big Name professional performers - some of them who obviously did not know their material off by heart - who used cheat sheets: some even were wearing reading glasses!

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: Nancy King
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 10:12 PM

I seem to have enough room in my brain for a finite number of songs at any given time. If I learn a new one (rare enough, sad to say), then an old one drops out. Unfortunately, I never know which one has dropped out until I try to sing it...

Like Joe, I tend to rely on cheat sheets. I'd love to be able to do without them, but I think it's less disruptive to sneak a peek at a piece of paper than it is to stand there rolling my eyes to the ceiling and mumbling, "ummm...er...dammit...what IS that verse..."   

Someone once sent my late mother a poem which started out, "Of all the things I've had and lost, I miss my mind the most." Wish I had the rest of it. The poem, I mean... The mind too, I guess...

Nancy

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: jimmyt
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 09:07 PM

Mr H   I think it is a problem we all face.   I find lyrics to be real unpredictable when it comes to remembering them and sometimes it is the stuff you are the most familiar with that become the most elusive!   Hang in there   Hope you are doing well! jimmyt

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: Barry T
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 09:01 PM

Senior Moments is politically incorrect, Mr. Happy.

They're called Golden Moments. ;-)

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:58 PM

Pregnent alone=immaculate conception?

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: GUEST,Anne Croucher
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:50 PM

I find that tablets of Pregnenolone have really made a difference. It might be a placaebo effect of course - I still come back from the shops without something I need, but not every time.

I was finding that I was forgetting words when speaking - now that is really frightening, and even now I will be unable to access the hard disk for several minutes to find a word which I know I know, but can't recall. Weird.

Still - my mother never got to this age, so I should be grateful just to be here.

Anne

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:49 PM

It's a snog wi'owt th'en!












But I still got one o' those- not all me faculties've faded!

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: GUEST,Elvish raider
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:35 PM

I see that sinarounds are catching on - see Sinaround thread. But what, I wonder is a sog?

Of course it happens to everyone - I can remember finishing a song, having to precis the missing verse, and then as soon as I sat down the whole of the offending escapee verse rematerialised.

Now what was I saying....?

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:28 PM

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:27 PM

"Anyone else experienced moments like these?"

Yes, my friend. All of 1967.

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:26 PM

It started when I was 35, Mr. Happy. I really haven't been able to memorize a song successfully since then, but I can still remember the songs I learned in college. I hate it when people struggle to recall lyrics of songs they know perfectly well, so I swallow my pride and use "cheat sheets" or a songbook. If somebody doesn't like that, screw 'em. I wish more people would use "helps," although it does make their repertoire less portable.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:25 PM

"Anyone else experienced moments like these?"

Yes, my friend. All of 1967.

Subject: RE: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:23 PM

Then later, when I left the room to check the facilities- the missing words came immediately to me- buggeration!!

Subject: Remembering&Forgetting:SeniorMoments?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:21 PM

Was at our weakly sinaround 2nite. Someone requested I sing 'Peasant & delightful'

Buger me! Sang ''Twas plesant & delghtful one midsumers morn- then couldn't think wot came next!

Had to improvise with 'When something or other was covered in corn, & something or other sang on evry green spray..'

then all the rest miraculously came back to me & i did the complete sog without a flaw.

Anyone else experienced moments like these?