Last Tuesday, I bought four bags of groceries and put them in the trunk of my car. The next day, I recall looking in the refrigerator, noticed missing items, felt something was 'not quite right' -- no recollection of the groceries in my trunk. Thursday I noticed my car smelled really strange -- again, no recollection of the groceries in my trunk. Then suddenly Thursday night, an image of me picking up a carton of a dozen organic eggs at Raley's flashes into my mind, and I remember the groceries (which had to be thrown out). It's as if the brian cells responsible for remembering groceries in trunk knew they were dying, sent out SOS signals which were picked up by other brain cells -- "OK, give us a few days to learn the program, but we got you covered!" The good news: My brain can still adapt and I can still create some new reminder notes to put on my dashboard.
Yesterday, my friend Kika gave me a nightlight she had picked up for me in Hawaii. After taking it out and admiring it, while Kika was in the kitchen getting some tea, I put the nightlight back into its purple container (success), then put the purple container into the white box (wrong), and then tried jamming the white box into the brown box on the left (should be the other way around). I kept struggling with it and could NOT figure out what was wrong. Kika returned and I asked her for help and was shocked when she easily put it all back together. The good news: Today, I don't have any problem with this; friends will help if I ask them; and I have a whole new perspective on 'thinking outside the box.'
