No offence to any one involved, but his has to be one of the stupidest things I've heard all day.

I buy it. If you pay attention when someone is trying to remember something, they will often look up (and to a particular side if i remember correctly). This is because they are literally trying to recall from part of their brain the information they can't remember.

Bottom line for me is that I'm willing to give it a try when i can't remember things.

At my age I'm willing to give anything a try that just might improve my ..........

Oh hell I've forgotten already.

Would make me look kind of shifty.

lol @ Oy3g0ds

I'm HURT! I posted this yesterday:

http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/A983CC9B-FF1F-4FF0-97DB-F9A9B3DF4D4D/

Sniff, and no one bothered to even pop it once, let alone comment

*slices wrists*

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

to answer egoldstein and others interested:

Moving the eyes when thinking is a form of NLP, or neuro-linguistic programming.

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a personal development system developed in the early 1970s by Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder, in association with Gregory Bateson. It uses a toolbox of strategies, axioms and beliefs about human communication, perception and subjective experience.

It is based upon how uses of words, in this case looking in different direction to assert whether someone is thinking of sights or sounds, and enables people to use this to understand and express points to others.

This clip was featured on today's Clipiversity video podcast, and Oy3g0ds, I stole your joke, but I gave you credit

Thanks for the great tip, we'll definitely be trying this when we can't remember something!

Not that NLP can't have truthful aspects, but the extreme claims by some of its practitioners put the practice in the category of pseudoscience.

Skeptic's Dictionary entry: http://www.skepdic.com/neurolin.html

mind you, if this is the case, computers must literally draw memory straight out of us (what, with all the staring at one spot that we do while sitting at a computer screen!!!)