Memory Aid

Any brain surgeons out there? I have an idea for an invention, and I think I need some help.

On days like today, when it's 90 degrees and very humid, my brain doesn't function as well as usual. For instance, I'll have a thought - such as, I'm going to go down to the basement and throw in a load of laundry, and while I'm there, I'll use the basement bathroom and grab some diapers to bring upstairs.  I may make it as far as the basement, and remember that I need to use the bathroom, and nothing else; I then return to the 1st floor and wonder "now, what the heck was I going to do?" Sometimes this pattern repeats itself at various times during the day. In fact, on days when the Air Force Thunderbirds are dive-bombing my house (so it seems), as they practice for a weekend air show, this pattern is repeated so many times that I'm very limited in my productivity.

So, I'd like to propose a Back button for the brain. You know how you have a Back button on your web browser? Well, the Back button for the brain would serve a similar purpose. You could click your Back button and remember the thought you had 3.5 seconds ago, for example. Just having the ability to recall thoughts that occurred within the last 15 minutes would be hugely helpful.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to whatever it was I was thinking I needed to do...

Comments

[Paul N.]

I believe you're on to something there.

[elle]

Oh, God, can I have one?? Sometimes I forget things and do them twice and I have NO MEMORY of doing it the first time. I think the grey matter went out with the placenta.

[Michele]

Are you taking orders? I walked into the kitchen earlier this evening and thought "why am I in this room?" Then I remember oh yeah, I am hungry....yes, forgting that one is hungry is indeed black-button worthy.

[the other elle]

Will that back button also take care of those times when I speak before thinking?

[Marie]

I think pre-orders are in order here... maybe QVC will want to help with this one.

So, Paul, I'll put you down for 1...

One for Elle - oh yeah. Many days I think "did I already take my vitamins? Oh yes, I did... no, I didn't..."

One for Michele - yep, the kitchen thing. I often stand in front of the open fridge & wonder what it was I was going to get out of there...

And for the other Elle - I'm thinking that would be a feature of the Deluxe model - an Undo "add-on." I'd be needing the Deluxe model as well!!!

[whose?]

The Other Elle has a great idea! Only, I think it would be an UNDO button. That would have a variety of other useful applications as well. ; ) Now, what was I doing?

[Suzanne]

Sign me up, too. I feel like I am far too young to have developed dementia.