BS: Brain short out?

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Noreen
Date: 17 Mar 02 - 05:22 PM

Thanks Liz..no chocolate in it? (I've heard of a Bolognese sauce recipe with chocolate in...)

Perhaps it was chocolate deprivation, Mortie?

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Mar 02 - 10:00 AM

Noreen, you've never eaten here, you wouldn't know..... want to come and try it one day??

I've got a mean recipe for chicken with strawberry sauce....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Mar 02 - 12:06 AM

see a doctor

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Mar 02 - 07:37 PM

*grin* you got that right,Noreen.....and Amos, I've already been told off in PM's re. dehydration so I'm trying harder, honest!!And Sparky, the answer is, don't wake up.....*BG*

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Noreen
Date: 16 Mar 02 - 01:32 PM

Liz: and that's supposed to reduce her stress levels? *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Amos
Date: 16 Mar 02 - 09:42 AM

Sure, sparky! You interrupt a pre-cut rewcord, it's real hard to find the tiny little groove you were on before you started messing with it. Happens fairly often.

Morty -- make sure you're drinking enough water, wouldja??

On a lighter note, the tale (possibly apocryphal) from Princeton during Einstein's reign goes that he would have these all-night chalkboard discussions in his basement, when they were in the heat of a project, and one morning they all came up after working all night to sit around the kitchen table to eat breakfast. Uncle Albert dozed off briefly and one of the physicists at the table decided to play a joke on him by taking the food off his plate and putting the empty plate back in front of him while he was snoozing.

The master awoke, looked at his emptied plate and wiped his mouth with a napkin, burped, and said, "Well gentlemen, shall we return to work?".

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: GUEST,sparky
Date: 16 Mar 02 - 09:18 AM

On a musical note..... this sounds a lot like what happens to me if I suddenly have to think about what I'm singing halfway through a song - I usually go onto 'autopilot', so if I suddenly 'come back' and notice what I'm singing, I get utterly and irretrievably lost! Senility? Or does someone else do this too....please say yes....

sparky

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Mar 02 - 08:20 AM

Sure.....if I can remember where you live.....

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Mar 02 - 08:04 PM

But you're still going to come and have dinner one weekend?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Morticia
Date: 15 Mar 02 - 08:45 AM

Thank you all, great stories and yes, I do feel reassured.I would imagine it's down to stress, trying to be two places at once sydrome = result, can't remember either!

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Mickey191
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 01:35 PM

Morticia sounds like your brain was asking for a little vacation from too much stress. Most weird incident happened to me the other day. Speaking with my best friend, I forgot her name. Everyone of my four prescription drugs list memory loss as a side effect. Their going to help me live til 90, but meanwhile, my brain has turned to s--t! Slainte

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 10:58 AM

Sounds pretty harmless Mort - I've re-read your post a couple of times to try to figure it out. It could be a case of coming out of that "auto-pilot" effect abruptly mid-journey.
Keep an eye on it & if it happens again & worries you then mention it to a doc.
I often break off from working to persue some random thought, then when I look back at the computer screen I can't for the life of me remember what I was doing before I stopped.
I also sometimes forget what I'm talking about half-way through a long rambling sentence - I think I just bore myself into unconciousness on those occasions......
Don't dwell on it - just bear it in mind if you get any other symptoms.
Stress (ongoing stress, or the transition between stress/no-stress & vice versa maybe) does sound like a likey suspect....
Hope you're not letting it worry you.
Kris

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 10:42 AM

as you can see, this might be nothing...or something. If it happens again, check it out. But many things happen which are hard to nail down...you might have had 2 or 3 thought processes going on which temporarily cancelled each other out. (That is a pretty strange and sudden way for a real problem to show up, which may be why so many make light of it...) If it IS a real problem, it would likely return and show more symptoms.

(Back to a lighter note...I have been saying that as I get older, my memory has become an integral part of my exercise program---living in a two story house, the more I forget, the more I run up & down stairs....)

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 10:01 AM

Most of the descriptions of lapses or slips are fairly different from Morticia's incident. The majority of you made a mistake when you were not paying attention. That happens to everybody nearly daily. Not knowing where you are and where you are going while paying attention and actively trying to regain that knowledge for half a minute is something quite different.

Stress is a possible harmless explanation. So are sleep deprivation or effects from drugs (including medication and all legal drugs). If it's not one of these possibilities or if it comes again, follow Doug's advice.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Menita
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 10:00 AM

My other half collected American cars (we live in the UK) and I was taking one to go to the Playgroup christmas party-I strapped in a wriggling excited child, ran back into the house to collect my contribution to the 'do', ran back to lock the door of the house and lept into the car...Where the hell's the steering wheel gone? Yea you guessed- I'd got in to the UK driver side of the car!!

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 09:43 AM

Don't feel bad.
Recently I arrived home from a business meeting and pulled into the driveway (with the garage door closed) and stopped about 4 feet short of the garage. Forgot to turn off the car and put it in park, and got out. Took a couple of steps away from the car and it slowly started to roll into the garage door, and by the time I managed to climb back in it and stop it, the entire garage door was wrapped and crumpled around the front of the car. Garage door was a write off and lots of paint scratches to the car. Paint scratches were easily touched up, but the insurance wouldn't cover the garage door. Expensive gaff. Not a pretty sight either. After I got over the initial shock of seeing what happened, I nearly pissed myself over my stupidity. *G*

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Trevor
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 09:42 AM

Bobert, it would probably be a similar effect to the one that I experienced when I decided to replace a duff radiator, forgetting to turn the central heating off. The scalds are more or less healed now, the decorator is coming next eek and the insurance company reckon on £500. Brain fade or what?

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 09:29 AM

Trevor: Guess what happens when you just drive away while the hose is still pumping? Ask me how I know?

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Trevor
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 04:27 AM

The other I night I refuelled my car, paid the bill, got back in engaged gear and dropped the clutch. The car didn't move an inch. Then I remembered, you're supposed to start the engine first!

Going.....going.....g

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 03:53 AM

As we get older, we all get these memory lapses, and other signs of degeneration.
I am at the stage when I think a lot about the "Hereafter"; I get to the room upstairs, and think "What am I here after?"!

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 02:56 AM

Morty, I'm deeply concerned that it was my fault loading all that extra crap on you Tuesday night..... come and have dinner one weekend to make up.... remember where we live??

Deep breathing and more chocolate (sugar for the energy boost), that's what I suggest....

LTS XX

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: nutty
Date: 14 Mar 02 - 01:28 AM

Hey Uncle Spaw ....... is that an open invitation .........cos I could do with a break. lol

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 11:59 PM

Dear Mortie...........I think you're really sick kid, and you need a break. Now c'mon over and sit on Uncle Spaw's lap....Uncle Spaw gonna' show you a trick.......

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEEHHEEEHHHEHEHEEHHEEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH

Uncle Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: MMario
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 11:25 PM

I've been known to ask the person on the other end of the phone "And what was it you called about?" only to have them reply - "I don't know - you phoned me"

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 11:06 PM

Kat: I'm really impressed with the stressed/ desserts thing. Really. Did you figure that out?

Morticia: Turn the radio up. Nothing to worry about. Brain "fade" is just your mind telling you that you're just a little ahead of yourself. You know, a forward thinker. Creative and all that. Ahhhh, what was I talking about..... oh yeah, lapses. Now, if you are worried that next year at this time you'll be in a nursing home mumbling you can always give yourself a pop quiz when it happens. Think of something that would require you to know a lot about something in your life. Like, where you keep your screwdriver or your the name of your boss or your what kind of car you drive, Now, if you fail the quiz, hmmmmm? Hmmmmmmm?

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: DougR
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 09:08 PM

I think you should check with your doctor. Particularly if it happens again.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 08:50 PM

absent minded professor meets student waking across campus...they talk for a bit.

As they part, the professor says to the student, "Oh, by the way, which way was I walking when we met?"

"You were coming from Bleckly Hall."

"Oh, good...then I've had lunch!"

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 08:48 PM

Oh crap-- waiddaminnit. What we oughtta be asking is:

Morty. What do YOU think was going on with this?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 08:47 PM

Who was it dreamt he was making a speech in the House of Commons, and woke up and found he was?

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 08:45 PM

I think that kind of thing comes with being a Social Worker, Morticia.

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 07:50 PM

I thought this was going to be a thread about Georgie Junior.....

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 07:38 PM

The other day it occured to me, right at that moment, I could not have told anyone what my address was to save my soul. It felt as though I needed to "reboot" which I kind of did by going on to do something else, then coming back to where the haitch did I live! Maybe it was abrain blip, maybe just stress. BTW, stressed spelled backwards is

desserts!

**BG**

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 07:20 PM

Distracted and/or forgetful I can deal with....they are so common to me ( i.e. did I actually lock up the house, deal with this issue, remember that appointment)that I think no more about them than I might about a hundred commomplace incidents,such as forgetting large sections of a journey which I put down to being on auto-pilot and think no more about.This was new.....if you had asked me who I was or what I did for a living, I would not have been able to answer you at the time I described. I'm not really worried, more curious, are these complete short-outs common?

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 06:35 PM

Dead Horse, a couple of weeks ago I had an appointment at the hospital, so I took the bus that would get me there about 5 minutes before check in.

The driver sailed right through the intersection that leads to the hospital. As there was a startled yelp from the passengers, the driver says, Oh, Shoot!

After conferring on the radio, he ended up continuing on for a couple of miles and offloaded about 5 of us to catch the next ingoing bus. I was about 12 minutes late for my appointment, but it was kind of fun.

By the way, this bus driver was YOUNG...

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: nutty
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 06:22 PM

A more frightening experience is when you arrive at your destination but are unable to recall huge sections of your route. You could well be on another planet. I always hope that I was actually awake............

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 05:46 PM

Sounds like you need another Stony Stratford weekender.
My occupation as a bus driver has on occasion seen me getting out of the bus to look at the destination blind to see whether I'm coming or going! This is usually caused by a passenger asking if I go to...... and that gets me wondering if I set the blind right. Often heard joke when I worked for Maidstone & District Bus Co.
(Passenger)Do you go to Maidstone, only it is written on the side of your bus?
(Driver)I've got India written on the tyres, love. I aint going there, either! Boom, Boom.

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 05:15 PM

Women in the pre-, peri-, or post-menopause stage call that Cotton Head. If this could be a factor, PM me for a URL, I don't have it handy!

~Cotton Head

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 04:55 PM

Maybe too much stress (you KNOW what that is!*bg*), too much to think about. I wouldn't worry about it, either, unless it were to happen constantly. I've done the same type of thing.

It may sound silly, but most people are shallow breathers and do not get enough oxygen, really. Try doing some good deep breaths each morning, noon, and night; remember a deep breath makes your belly go out like a balloon being blown up and go in when you exhale. If it happens again, try deep breathing in order to oxygenate your brain more.

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 04:54 PM

Morticia, I believe you've been undergoing severe stress lately- I think disorientation is often due to distraction.

On the other side of the coin, remember how it is when one is freshly pate over can in love? Distraction tends to evoke the same results, whatever the cause.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: Brain short out?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 04:43 PM

I wouldn't worry about it Morticia. Not knowing where you are for a few moments is nothing to get concerned about.

On the other hand, if you start to forget who you are , then you might want to start worrying *G*

Murray

Subject: Brain short out?
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Mar 02 - 04:33 PM

A strange and not unalarming thing happened to me today.I was dropping my son off at school before driving on to work, a familiar route when, stopping at a junction, I couldn't remember where I was or where I was going.Now I, like most people, often find myself half-way up the stairs and not the faintest idea of what I was going up there for but this was very different.A feeling of complete disorientation for about 30-40 seconds.So, anyone else familiar with this, should I take more water with it, is this the first step in that exciting voyage that is senilty?All suggestions,explanations, advice,similiar stories welcomed.