A simple trick to recall something you forgot

3 years ago

Sometimes, you’ll find yourself struggling to remember a word that seems to just be at the tip of your tongue. Fortunately, it seems that there’s an easy trick to solve this type of problem, and it’s as simple as clenching your fist!

It might sound weird, but a new study suggests that the simple act of clenching your fist can actually help boost your memory. The conclusion goes like this: if you want to recall a memory, you have to clench your left hand, and if you want to form a memory, you have to clench your right.

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OklaMoni
3 years ago
I'll have to try that... but mostly, for me, it's trying to remember it in the correct language... as in the language spoken where I am at the moment. I seem to be able to recall stuff in German a whole lot... when I can't think of the American-English word.
eld6161
3 years ago
Stop showing off Moni! ;)

Along the memory lines, I am often surprised when I dig deep and pull a bit of minutia that really shouldn’t even be on my radar.

Like, when DH happens to mention he can’t remember a last name of someone, and somehow I pull it up.

Jasdip, I will try that.
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LoneJack Zn 6a, KC
3 years ago
After clinching fist do you need to punch yourself in the head to jog your memory?
lgmd_gaz
3 years ago
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Jasdip, I am clenching my left fist now trying to remember what DH said yesterday that we needed to get at Walmart when we went there today. I was busy cutting up veggies at the time but intended to put it on the list soon as I was done. By then I couldn't remember what he said, and he couldn't remember either. We did the shopping this morning hoping something would trigger our memory. Nothing did, so we are still trying to remember. Will try the right fist trick next time....if we remember.

By the way, we came home without milk which was on the top of the list!.... sigh
georgysmom2
3 years ago
If you're as old as me, you no longer can clench your fist....the fingers don't bend. That's a double whammy. First you're old and starting to lose it and now you can't clench your fist to get it back!!!
bob_cville
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Maybe that is it! Why it is so hard for the medical professionals to figure out causes of or treatments for Alzeheimer's Perhaps it has nothing to do with the brain, and instead is brought on by osteoarthritis of the hands.

Nobel prize in medicine, here I come.

:-)
chloebud
3 years ago
I guess I'll have two clenched fists most of the time.
hallngarden
3 years ago
Geez, at my age,I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night. Tried clenching my fist and my teeth.
chisue
3 years ago
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I've used another trick to remember something after leaving one room for another. If I reach the other room and can't think WHY, I go back to where I had the thought in the first place. This is supposedly the primitive brain tricking you. When we lived in caves, we learned to focus only on possible danger once we stepped outside.
georgysmom2
3 years ago
Dr. Bob, I think you're on to something!
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
3 years ago
I would be happy just to be able to clench my fists! I have to use special Utensils to get my food to my mouth.

I have been forgetting....
whistle_b
3 years ago
I can't remember which hand to use for recall and which to use for forming.
woodrose
3 years ago
I'll try that trick if I can remember it ..........
stacey_mb
3 years ago
The brain cells are slowly disappearing! Lately as a mental exercise I've been trying to name famous people if I see them in a news item, but when seeing a series of movie stars, I couldn't think of Marlon Brando's name. Even when I discovered what his name was, it just didn't stick! I finally resorted to the trick of a visual image - branding a marlin fish. Sheesh!
jemdandy
3 years ago
I suspect that Moni's native language is German. If Moni dreams in German, she has not abandoned that language and it likely is her prime language.

It has been said that a person has not become fully immersed in a language until they dream in that language.

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