Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
By sharksfin
@sharksfin (1091)
Philippines
July 10, 2012 4:15pm CST
Has it happened to you when you were about to say something then suddenly it totally slipped your mind and you have everyone waiting for you to put your message across?! It's taking longer and longer and you still can't remember what were you to say!!!
These days, when it happens to you, you will be teases incessantly. They'll use terms like "buffering". Mental block happens to everyone. Sometimes, the mind gets to process so fast, and there are times it just wants to take its time.
I just experienced it earlier, that's why I came up with this discussion. I was thinking of a word I was gonna use and no matter how I tried rehearsing the line in my head, I can't simply complete it because of that one word missing. My fingers had to stop typing for a few, I just stared at the monitor hoping the word will just pop out. And I started teasing myself in my mind. Am glad it happened not in front of friends, or else!
Share your buffering moment, peeps!
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4 responses
@ryanong (9664)
• Vietnam
11 Jul 12
I got that situation many times...i think it in English but i can't find Vietnamese words to express it..then i need some seconds to think about it and find a right Vietnamese words to speak.
Sometime, suddenly all is cleared and i have no thing in my mind..i need to take 1 minute to think of a topic that i am talking about.
I think it is normal and can happen to anyone...
@sharksfin (1091)
• Philippines
11 Jul 12
Oh, so it's more of a language related in your case, huh? You're mother tongue is Vietnamese but you're using English as your first language, am I right?
@sharksfin (1091)
• Philippines
11 Jul 12
Sorry, just need to correct.... *your mother tongue instead of "you're". hihi
@ryanong (9664)
• Vietnam
15 Jul 12
Because i did study in Korea for long time and i use English as an official language, I have no habit to translate from Vietnamese to English at all, all i think and speak directly in English. Now i still keep that habit when talking about my study major...
@jricky1 (6797)
• China
11 Jul 12
Such moment is really awkward and i really try to say something out.The result is that i totally forgot what i'm gonna say about that.Only feel much better when i found that something that occured to my mind and being relifed.lol,maybe everyone come across such kind of thing.
@sharksfin (1091)
• Philippines
11 Jul 12
hahaha...it is really an awkward moment especially when you're talking so passionately and then you start to buffer...hahaha One of life's bloopers.
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
10 Jul 12
That happens to me sometimes. I have had it happen in the middle of a conversation when nothing even has distracted me. Sometimes I think my brain feels overloaded and just stops 
@sharksfin (1091)
• Philippines
10 Jul 12
I think it's because you have so many to share and they overlapped. You forgot what you're about to say because another idea came into mind and they all can't wait to be said anymore. :) Thanks for sharing.
@aabuda (1722)
• Philippines
10 Jul 12
Yes, it actually happens to I think most of us. But when I was a kid, we usually think that if you forgotten something that you were about to say, we say that it was actually 'taken by the devil' that is why you forgot it....lol.
@sharksfin (1091)
• Philippines
10 Jul 12
oh, something new to me. I never heard of that before. When I was younger, I overheard people say that it's memory gap. The person is just being forgetful due to old age. haha
