I get confused sometimes........!!

Hi deepak! You are not alone dear friend! haha..I experience the same thing. The face will look familiar but I couldn't remember where I have seen him or her. I guess, it is because we got used to seeing them in their regular attires/uniforms that seeing them in another suit or clothes just confuse our mind a little bit. Take care and blessings to you! lovelots..faith

My goodness gracious Dpk........ ...You mean you cannot remember faces you have seen only once or twice. ...do you fail to recall where you have seen a person before ...does it takes you considerable time to recall about a particular person ...do you wonder whether your memory is failing you and you must be heading for Alzhiemers ? If your answer to all this is YES then believe me you are a perfectly normal person like me................So go ahead and leave all your confusion behind...YOU ARE A NORMAL PERSON......

I am dealing with many people, but I guess I have photographic memory and I can easy remember who is who. I can connect any face with location. Many people don't recognize me, but I can remember people I net years back.

Firstly So you are confused as and when you find it difficult to recognize the person. A shopkeeper looks so familiar in a shop and a waiter in a restaurant and so on. Its like our childhood days when we are being taught how the profession relates to the place they belong to. Human mind and brain is an amazing thing. They work hand in hand with our notions and beliefs. We get attuned with certain worldly facts like the dogs bark, cats meow etc. We dare not question that! Even though meeting someone where he/she is not supposed to belong is not fully similar to this but somehow our brain and mind are co ordinated that way. Obviously, I would find it confusing to trace someone's background and the place he/she belongs to if I happen to meet him/her out of place! Its something more than just memory. Its more to do with our ability and inclination to choose and pick things and remember those. And deepak, only the other week, I was completely perplexed when a lady came up to me with the most nice smiles and greeted me with lot of warmth. And guess what, I was stupefied and could only smile back with a sheepish smile. I did not want to feel more embarrassed for my brain refused to recognize her! And I am still trying to figure out....

Really dpk, we always come across lots of people in different places once we step out our doorway daily. Of course it is quite difficult for me to recognize all of them whom we have contacted for the day. I could remember those whom I could see them every now and then, but I couldn’t recall their names even though they had told me before, unless the names are unique or have special meaning and easy for me to remember. Anyway I will try my best to find out the name of the person if it is really important for me to know it, for I have missed the chance to ask him. If not I will smile and talk friendly to the person who knows and talks to me in return. Sometimes I would ask his or her name and the place where they work strait away, followed by an apology for my forgetfulness. So I don’t have to take the trouble to think of whom the person actually he or she is. Happy posting and good luck.

Yes, it happens to me a lot. I am unable to place the person's face to her work or where I have met her in the past. Many times, I have made the mistake of assuming that they are a past college mate, only to be told that they actually went for some other music or dance class with me. It can be awkward especially when they remember me and I don't! Then there are those faces that seem very common to my eyes. I hope I dont get into some big trouble with my old buddies because of this lousy memory of mine.

Well, I do get lost for a minute or two while I try to place the person. But I am quick to realize who the person is. It has happened to me a few times before...and sometimes my son is a great help in this matter...lol

First of all Deepak, if I try to keep in mind all those people we are meeting everyday, I would be more confused that you are. I am not blessed with a photographic memory, neither do I want to be Sherlock Holmes (no pun intended here) so I know that I cant really remember so many faces and I am not much perturbed over it either. However, sometimes it does happen that a person has been unusually helpful or polite or with a charming smile and courteous behaviour. In such cases, I can mostly remember the face (though it turns out that the face has forgotten my face and so my smile registers no recognition, making me feel like a fool!) yet, there have been times when I have literally wracked my brains yet I could not really place it. Very very frustrating

It happens more and more the older you get. I still recognise the face, but I can't recall the name, on quite a few occasions, especially if I haven't seen that person for a long time. I suppose the more information our minds store, the slower it's likely to put the information back out, after filing through all the links that are stored in there. It's rather like the computer I guess, and the older we get, the more we have stored! lol. Brightest Blessings my friend.

Hi deepak, I am glad that you asked this, because this is happening with me all the time.....I keep forgetting faces of people. As you know I sit at the reception and so many people walk in every time. I welcome them, I talk with them and they exchange many dialogues with me, and yet when that same person enters the office after few weeks I look at him blankly as if I don't know who is he and this really irritates some people. I think the reason is that in our day to day life there are so many important things that we have to keep in memory that we just forget these casual meetings. Besides, today we are not eating what our grand parents ate.....the real healthy food......., we don't rest properly, we are always stressed and worried.....all this together is making us mentally weak and that is why all this confusion. I am sure it is not just you and me.......but there are many more like us.

Hehe, it happens to me to... more often than I would like it to happen LOL It takes a bit for me to kind of remember where I know that person from and it's exasperating when I can't place them. Worse yet, I sometimes pass by someone that I do know and talk to almost regularly and fail to see them. Usually I am thinking about something and hardly recognize the surroundings LOL Often I have people call me on that, or sometimes even getting mad at me because they feel I just decided to ignore them, but it isn't so.

Hi deepak it happens to me also when I am in very deeply involved with my work of If I am in tension even I cant recognise some people suddenly it takes few minutes to recall who it is. and ofcourse in our daily routine we meet a lot of people so it will be difficult sometimes. Happy myloting.

You may not be alone to this problem. There must be many persons like you but I don't think I can forget my milkman, if I see him at different place. It could be difficult for me to recall about persons whom I don't see often but for daily visited people, I won't get confused most of the time!

Hello my friend dpk262006 Ji, At times, I too get into as you feel. But I rememebr something from my "SATSANG", where it says : [b]“If you can roam in crowds, but do not allow your ‘thoughts’ and ’abilities’ to wander stray, and you live with emperor, but do not neglect common man “.[/b] May God bless You and have a great day.

I used to be thinking hard and crushing my brain to know who is the guy I am talking with so happily many times without getting a clue most of the time.

deepak,it does happen to me(i thought i was aging,thats why i was getting confused.)one month back,a boy from a bank had come to take my signature on some document(i donot what his designation was).few days later ,he again came to my house as my brothers friend and i for the life of me couldnt recollect were i had seen him before....

Oh it happens. I work in a store and have worked in the same store for years. It is so funny to me when someone that I see regularly will run into me outside of the store and not be able to place where they know me from. I'm probably dressed a bit different, no makeup and above all....not behind the counter! we all do it, i think.

Deepak, It is common feeling, I think. It means we are not familiar with person and we have seen the person somewhere else and can’t recollect easily. It happens with me many times but I will end up my thinking only after locating the place where I have seen the person, upto that time I keep on thinking (lol). We may not be in regular touch with that person that is why we can’t remember them easily and the person must have given a friendly approach with us when we met him/her.

Yes, this happens to me as well. I often know that I have seen such person before, but I can't recall where or when. We see so many people, as you said, on a daily basis. Sometimes, it is hard to keep track! My husband was a teacher at a high school and sometimes he swears he sees his students, but he can't recall if they were actually his students or not! lol - it's kind of funny.

I think this is very normal and it happens to most of us. I was at a party recently and a lady came up to me and start talking to me as if she has known me for ages. I just couldn't recollect who she is and while listening to her talking I was trying to remember where I met her. Though she looked familiar but can't remember her name. I plucked up my courage and asked her name. To my embarrassment, she tapped my shoulder and said how could I forget her as she was once working with my dad! I felt very bad and asked for apology for forgetting her name. It was years back so my memory of her has been totally erased from my memory bank.