What’s the difference between forgetful and short term memory loss? Aren’t they the same thing, when the bottom line is that you don’t remember?
Dore gave me three words: trousers, church, green. I was to remember them when he tests me for my short term memory. Hours later I am still thinking of these words but he has already gone to bed. He never asks me for them.
So much for the test, and maybe we’ll be all right. Experts suggest mental exercises. The brain needs stretching too, turning driveways into freeways.
All afternoon I was trying to memorize two lines of a poem. I’m still unsuccessful.
Short term memory loss and forgetfulness are different. Short term memory is the kind that allows you to recall why you got up and went to another room for example, or to listen to someone speak for a minute or more and know not only what they said but how to respond. Forgetfulness is a term that is broader you forget short, medium and long term items.
I don’t think an inability to memorize is reflective of being forgetful. I don’t consider myself forgetful and I rarely memorize anything – it is difficult and slow. I can do it, but since I do not make a practice of it I am not at all in “mental shape” to do it. My sister, on the other hand, can memorize readily this is because she’s practiced for years. She is a stage actress and that is her business.
Keep well…..