You Know You've Been Dissociating/being Absent Minded When...

[desiderata310]

When you are literally walking out the door and can't remember where the keys to the house are that you JUST had in your hand and you spend 10 minutes looking for them and they are in your pocket.
When you have to STOP when you get out of the car and physically LOOK at the keys to make sure they are in your hand so that you don't lock them in the car AGAIN.
When you walk out the front gate with the bike 3 different times forgetting to put your helmet on because each time you walked back in the house, you forgot why you walked in there in the first place.

 

[jaccat]

I once lost my keys for two days. They turned up inside a box of cornflakes.:O_o:

 

[Muttly]

You wander into chat and see that @ThatRandom91 was recently there. You then realize you had been having a conversation with them and wandered off to do a something real quick, while waiting for a response and never came back. You further realize you aren't sure if it was today? yesterday? or longer ago than that?

 

[Muttly]

@desiderata310 I almost made a similar type of post but then realized I couldn't sort out the forgetting well enough. Like I know it involves forgetting keys and finding them in my pocket and forgetting other things and then losing my keys and such but the details just aren't there.

@jaccat hahahha. ok, that might beat some of mine. I lost my credit card and found it in the frig. My version of cold cash. And I once spent ages searching for my keys and then found them in my shoe. No clue on either of those.

I also have a huge issue with socks. I will gather the clothes I'm going to put on. I will put on my clothes. I won't have socks. I will spend time looking for socks. Sometimes I give up and go get another pair of socks. The most recent time that happened I found them on the stove top. And this is a very, very regular thing. Maybe I should just stash socks all over the house so no matter what I can find a pair?

 

[desiderata310]

I also have a huge issue with socks

I have a similar issue. Try putting them on first when putting on underwear. That way, the small stuff is taken care of first.

 

[anonymous]

Someone likes your post but you can't remember typing anything

You like your own post whilst anonymous

You think it's Sunday but it's really Thursday

You think Elvis is still alive

 

[desiderata310]

You think Elvis is still alive

You don't have to have issues with dissociation to believe Elvis is still alive. There are plenty of folks who say he's alive and well and hiding out somewhere.

Everyone knows he's buried in the back yard like the pet gerbil.

 

[Ronin]

When you have a puzzle of items & don't recall where does belong a single one of them

When, a week later, you flashback to that state... and still don't have much of a clue, but recognize them as your things, so improvement in awareness is had.

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

When you can't remember which lie you told this time to explain your absence from work for a whole week.

 

[Forgetful]

When you finally get up to pee because you can't ignore it any longer so you head to the bathroom SEVEN steps away you wonder where you're going and why!! :oops::p

When you try to light a cigarette you haven't put in your mouth yet.​

 

[physicist13]

...you've watched several TV episodes on Netflix without realizing it or knowing anything that happened

 

[Friday]

Dammit. It's January. Because I said so.

Maybe January 4th, possibly the 6th.

STFU it is not March.

January.

<grin> It's such a nice January out! :D

Shhh.

I'm enjoying January.

Back away with your insistence on things like facts & calendars.

<casts eyes toward heavens>

Facts. Pfft. How silly.

January.