Finding things

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Posted by Roderick Jenkins on 26/03/2022 08:54:02:

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The point of this ramble is to ask the question: Why does my eye/ brain not see what it is looking for? …

Blame it on evolution! We only see things we can eat, or that might eat us.

Advice I've found to work better than wandering about cursing, is to repeatedly say the name of the missing item out loud while looking, and to search with a torch CSI style. Helps me concentrate I think. Sort of works, but I still have a long, long list of missing items.

[Bob Unitt 1Participant @bobunitt1]

Posted by Roderick Jenkins on 26/03/2022 08:54:02:The point of this ramble is to ask the question: Why does my eye/ brain not see what it is looking for? Is it because my mind's eye sees the vice upright and fastened to a bench and doesn't recognise the recumbent vice as a vice.

Rod

I have the same problem, to the extent that I sometimes have to get my wife to look for things for me, only for her to find them in plain view in the middle of the bench-top. She reckons that it started after a minor stroke I had years ago.

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

With a failing memory, I try, but often fail, to put things back where they came from.

But often, it is like a pantomime.

"It's behind you!"

I can still find things that have been forgotten that I had!

Howard

[CalumParticipant @calumgalleitch87969]

I don't have much advice for finding the thing that is lost, but one of the best pieces of advice I've ever had is: when you do find it, put it in the place you first looked for it.

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

Posted by Juddy on 24/03/2022 14:38:18:

Yes, or buy another one and the lost one will turn up as soon as the new one arrives

I hunted high and low for my bending spring and ended up buying another, the handy place I decided to hang it already had its twin hanging there.

Mike

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