Dealing with mental fog and cognitive decline, I am learning to cope with stuff like forgetting which order to do steps in for a recipe, forgetting why I'm in the room, getting words mixed up.
The danger of this when you are a truly weird person though, is I forget things like "When the phone rings, answer it" and instead it is "Pick up the phone, it's about to ring" and "answer the door, someone's about to ring the bell."
Does this work with Powerball?
Sending over a hug. I know it's not exactly a cure or such but I care. ♥️
@see_the_sus But whatever's going on amusingly to me feels like I'm forgetting that the future is supposed to happen after, and the past is supposed to happen before, so I accidentally react to something in the future instead of in the past.
It's better than a hallucination that something crawly just fell down one's shirt-neck.
But my husband confirms, I keep reaching for the phone, sometimes I'll say "let me get that" and then it'll ring, and I'll answer. Sometimes I have to wake up first.
@see_the_sus What it feels like, on my end, is sort of... well, it feels like I'm hearing the phone ring "in a few seconds", sort of like I'm remembering having just heard it, but before, instead of after. So I'll reach to answer because it's _going_ to ring, not because it _rang_. And it makes perfect sense in the moment, then a moment later, I'll realize I did those out of order.
Perhaps there's some clue I unconsciously pick up on, but I don't remember consciously, and it makes good guesses?
@see_the_sus But it really feels like I often bite my tongue about something that's going to happen, and I'll say "no no, don't mention that, it hasn't happened yet", but as I get older, I forget to wait until things happen before I react to them.
@see_the_sus I always assumed that it was simply that my brain re-ordered events weirdly when it wrote to long-term memory, so that even though I witnessed something then reacted, it _felt_ like I reacted, then witnessed.
My apologies for not understanding what you were saying
@see_the_sus I'm not sure how properly to describe it anyway! : )
@see_the_sus I don't think I need a cure for reaching to answer the phone before it rings, or knowing to answer the door before someone knocks. I also sometimes dream the last ten minutes of popular movies before they are made, thus spoiling the endings for me, but I'll survive.
If I answered phones that were just sitting there unrung, or opened the door for phantom people, I'd be more worried. But picking up the phone before it rings because you forgot that hadn't rung yet seems harmless.