Day one-hundred-eighty-eight

I had a really good idea for today's post, but I made a mistake; I tried to remember it, when I should've written it down. It's now completely escaped me. I remember thinking it was a really good idea.

I'm trying to see if I can bring it back if I start thinking, working backwards, sideways, seeing what if anything may bring it back from the ether.

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Can't remember. Oh well.

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I've lost ideas for any number of things simply because I thought I would remember. I would think, "That's a great idea!", but when the time came to remember, it would be lost somewhere in the ether. They never seem to come back, either.

For a long time, I wasn't too good at recalling peoples' names. I would try to remember that person's name, but I would always seem to think of a name that I knew was wrong. Eventually, I realized that if I started running through names that I knew were wrong, eventually I could remember the name. Of course, it's always easier to remember something fixed like a name, rather than a vague idea.

I guess it depends on how people are able to recall. In the Beach Boys' 1967 song "Busy Doin' Nothin'", Brian Wilson describes being able to recall forgotten telephone numbers by sitting and concentrating. I've tried doing something similar but I realized that I have to sort my thoughts, having to sometimes PCI the wrong thing just to find the right thing.