I was looking for my drill driver the other day and I distinctly remember myself thinking “good luck finding this future me, you asshole.” It was in the back of my wife’s car for some reason.
Or that you stashed it deliberately at “the proper place to find it easily”. The result is the same.
Then after you give up and get a replacement, you get the same thought to put it somewhere and now you have n + 1 of the item. Rinse and repeat.
One thing that helps me when putting things away is asking myself “where would I look for this?” instead of “where should this go?”
I legitimately love those moments, where you have a very solid memory of how the place you left the object made you feel, and have to try to dig up any more information about it or about any items you might have left the object nearby. It’s like a murder mystery but you also find loads of fun things you haven’t touched in months or years along the way! Massively frustrating if you need something in a hurry, though.
Exactly this. So many of my memories are tied to feelings which is absolutely fantastic for remembering that I’ve been to a place, but not for remembering where that place is, for example.
When I say “I feel like I’ve been here before” I really mean that the feeling itself is familiar.
And its the same when I put stuff away. I remember where tools are because I remember the feeling I had when I put it away and not because I remember the location specifically. It’s a real double edged sword because I can remember very specific details way clearer than most people but I can’t remember generic broad things like “where did you put it”
I am excited to find out that I am not alone!
My wife can remember where we were, what we were wearing, and what the conversation was, to seemingly everything we’ve ever done. (She can actually play recent conversations back in her head.)
Meanwhile, I just remember impressions. They can be pretty visceral too. A smell, a sound, and the emotional response that I had to a place.
But name, location, decor… not a chance.
But I think I have some form of aphantasia too, since I have a terrible time seeing any details in my head.
And you can summon an image of the thing so clearly in a location your brain is convinced it must have been recently.
It was 5 years ago
