An Irrelevant Filter? I gots to get me one a thoze-

please apply this filter to stumbleUpon

I've experienced something related to this. An example: I remember what happened in a story a co-worker tells me, but won't remember who it happened to, where it happened, other details of the story. I find my brain tagging those details as irrelevant. People are ALWAYS saying to me, "Don't you remember I told you about him, he did such-and such.." I remember the "such-and-such" and almost never the who.

I am textbook female adult ADD. I think an awful lot of people are.

The ability to hold information in the mind so that it is immediately accessible is known as working memory.

Mine must have gotten laid...off

I wonder how easy it is, is a brain decides something is irrelevant, can it remind us to write a note?

Talk about 'selective memory'

all y'all are right,and its really cool,and i definitely have selective memory,but I've mastered it and i can block out almost anything i want to except loud stuff-

I can remember anything as long as it is NOT important

I can remember anything as long as it is NOT important

Me too

surfing through clipmarks I can manage the information better if I selectively read what catches my attention or really interests me; filtering the irrelevant(to me) material