It is a truth universally acknowledged that ...

[Bimble]

That sounds like nonsense but somebody said that kind of thing to me once and I put it to the test with cryptic crosswords. I have often got stuck on crosswords in the evening and given up on them. Next morning I can usually pick up the same crossword and rattle off the last 10 or 12 answers in a matter of seconds. I'm sure that I must have been thinking about the clues while I was asleep.

... or (subconciously ) seen the 'Answers' section of the next day's paper.

 

[ColinJ]

... or (subconciously ) seen the 'Answers' section of the next day's paper.

Nope - I finish the crossword in bed before going out to get the next paper!

 

[Markymark]

That sounds like nonsense but somebody said that kind of thing to me once and I put it to the test with cryptic crosswords. I have often got stuck on crosswords in the evening and given up on them. Next morning I can usually pick up the same crossword and rattle off the last 10 or 12 answers in a matter of seconds. I'm sure that I must have been thinking about the clues while I was asleep.

It's not a hard and fast rule but it certainly can be true. Memory retrieval can be tricky. Often they can be retrieved by being in similar places or other senses trigger them.

Classic example is walking into a room and forgetting why. Best thing is go back to the room when you decided to go there and think about something else. It'll often then pop back into your head.

 

[Tim Hall]

I have two odd gloves, both left hand. I know that if I throw them away, the missing ones will turn up.

I have loads of pairs of gloves and yet I can still pull out 4 in a row all left or all right handed!!!

Now if you two had put your gloves where they belong, in the glove box, then there wouldn't be any room for @KneesUp 's lights and all this could have been avoided.

 

[ColinJ]

It's not a hard and fast rule but it certainly can be true. Memory retrieval can be tricky. Often they can be retrieved by being in similar places or other senses trigger them.

Classic example is walking into a room and forgetting why. Best thing is go back to the room when you decided to go there and think about something else. It'll often then pop back into your head.

Ha ha - I do that all the time ...

I find myself standing in the kitchen and wonder why I am there. I have a mug of tea in my hand. I have NOT just made it. Nope, no idea!

So, I go back into the other room and sit back down in front of the TV. I start drinking the tea, and then remember that it had gone cold and I had been going to make a fresh one!

 

[ColinJ]

Nope - I finish the crossword in bed before going out to get the next paper!

I start drinking the tea, and then remember that it had gone cold and I had been going to make a fresh one!

Speaking of which - my tea has gone cold and I need to go out and get the paper!

 

[Markymark]

Ha ha - I do that all the time ...

I find myself standing in the kitchen and wonder why I am there. I have a mug of tea in my hand. I have NOT just made it. Nope, no idea!

So, I go back into the other room and sit back down in front of the TV. I start drinking the tea, and then remember that it had gone cold and I had been going to make a fresh one!

Boom, classic example. Not just 'one of those' but actually to do with how your brain processes memory.

 

[Drago]

... when you finally give up looking for something and just bloody-well buy a replacement, the formerly lost items will turn up, but not before you've used the replacement, so you cannot return it.

This is very true. Mrs D bought me a Vivoactive HR to replace the Garmin I'd lost in October. within an hour of opening the box I found the old one nestling camouflaged and hidden amongst my black socks.

 

[subaqua]

This is very true. Mrs D bought me a Vivoactive HR to replace the Garmin I'd lost in October. within an hour of opening the box I found the old one nestling camouflaged and hidden amongst my black socks.

I nearly did this with a dive computer but decided to check the club van one more time. It had dropped between crates.

I am currently looking for my Halfords 3/8 dive socket set. I have bought a new one and will be opening it at weekend to do work on bike so know the lost one will turn up as soon as I open the seal.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I don't lose things, always find what I've misplaced unless it got borrowed without being returned.
But the going into a room and forgetting why, oh yes, every day!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

This is very true. Mrs D bought me a Vivoactive HR to repl.ace the Garmin I'd lost in October. within an hour of opening the box I found the old one nestling camouflaged and hidden amongst my black socks.

You won't want to use that Garmin now after it's been with those socks for so long (where's the holding nose smiley when you need one?).

 

[Elswick Cotterpin]

Whatever the object is you almost always find it in the last place you would have thought of looking for it in.. so look there first!

 

[ColinJ]

Whatever the object is you almost always find it in the last place you would have thought of looking for it in.. so look there first!

Ha ha - my ex once went upstairs to search under her bed for her missing kitchen door key. When I asked why she thought it might be there she replied that she did not know where it was so that was as good a place as any to look!!!

(While she was up there I decided to take a more rational approach and found the key under a pile of placemats on a kitchen work surface a couple of feet from the kitchen door. She had cleared the dining table and evidently just plonked the placemats on top of the key ... )

 

[subaqua]

Ha ha - my ex once went upstairs to search under her bed for her missing kitchen door key. When I asked why she thought it might be there she replied that she did not know where it was so that was as good a place as any to look!!!

(While she was up there I decided to take a more rational approach and found the key under a pile of placemats on a kitchen work surface a couple of feet from the kitchen door. She had cleared the dining table and evidently just plonked the placemats on top of the key ... )

Ahh logic and sensibility .

Always wins over " why the feckin not"

 

[jonny jeez]

I have two odd gloves, both left hand. I know that if I throw them away, the missing ones will turn up.

I once rode a long way with a bloke from the east end who had two left handed gloves. He couldn't work out how the thumbs stayed in the right position, before another rider pointed out that the L was for large.

I promise you thats a totally true story, we all fell about on top of cheddar gorge, for about an hour.