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Does anyone else experience this?

I'll be in meditation, thoughts and memories floating by. A certain thought or memory will pique my attention, so I attempt to figure out why. And realize that I completely lost that thought or memory I just had. It seems to happen within a second or two. I get a thought, it interests me bringing me to conscious thought, and as I try to realize why, it is gone. Sometimes I will only remember a word or a sentence of the thought and/or memory, but not the context. I know there was context most of the time; I just can't recall what it was.

This happens often with me lately, and I almost feel as if there are conversations going on that a part of me (my conscious self) is missing out on. It's kind of funny when I think of it like that, but I still feel cheated in a way.

Is this common?

[Seeker79]

Yes... It is for me.

The issue arises because we must be in satori ( no mind) to hear experience some of that, but being in satori does not lend itself to memory. Have you ever driven your car home from work but then all of a sudden realized you don't remember the drive home. Same thing.

[unit]

this happens to me too.. it's a bit like a concept coalesces into an epiphany which reveals briefly a new form.. and i'm like, aha! so that's why X is Y and so forth.. then that newly formed thing dissolves away.. and i'm beating my mind with a stick, hey! i earnt that! give that thing back to me!?

..thank god someone else said it first..

[Seeker79]

unit, on 04 May 2012 - 11:51 AM, said:

this happens to me too.. it's a bit like a concept coalesces into an epiphany which reveals briefly a new form.. and i'm like, aha! so that's why X is Y and so forth.. then that newly formed thing dissolves away.. and i'm beating my mind with a stick, hey! i earnt that! give that thing back to me!?

..thank god someone else said it first..

We have had this discussion on um before. I have written entire songs, created wonderful business plans in these inbetween states before all to have it poof away in moments and leave me struggling to write down tid bits. It's very frustrating sometimes.

[Bella-Angelique]

You may be interested in this study on hypnosis (mediated meditation) and memory.

http://www.dailymail...ing-system.html

[karmakazi]

This happens to me all the time, something will pop up, and I'll remember that it was important or interesting but be unable to peg down what exactly it was.  And then it bugs me for days, or until I forget about it.

Seeker79, on 04 May 2012 - 03:54 PM, said:

We have had this discussion on um before. I have written entire songs, created wonderful business plans in these inbetween states before all to have it poof away in moments and leave me struggling to write down tid bits. It's very frustrating sometimes.

I've lost many a good idea for a painting or drawing this way, but most of them seem to come back later and I usually get them the 2nd or 3rd time..

[Its Mii]

Happens to me too. Sometimes it happens with images, I'll have a clear image but when I want to focus in on the detail or pay close attention to something... it's gone.

[sarah_444]

Dharma D, on 04 May 2012 - 07:19 PM, said:

Happens to me too. Sometimes it happens with images, I'll have a clear image but when I want to focus in on the detail or pay close attention to something... it's gone.

This exact thing happened to me today. Since I've been meditating more often lately I'm now able to go longer than my usual 5 minutes and had a couple of images come up today that I lost pretty quickly.

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Bella-Angelique, on 04 May 2012 - 06:46 PM, said:

You may be interested in this study on hypnosis (mediated meditation) and memory.

http://www.dailymail...ing-system.html

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When a question was received about the film, the retrieval process was aborted.

Some forms of clinical amnesia may model hypnosis by resulting from a similar abort mechanism, the findings suggest.

I'd hope my temporary amnesia wasn't from a similar abort mechanism caused by myself. Interesting article nonetheless, and food for thought.

[unit]

i read the article and not ashamed to report it makes little sense to me at this time..

..so... who is responsible for 'making me forget'?

myself?

for what reason..?

i am reminded of a teaching; when you quiet your mind like a still lake, great birds of wisdom will come..

..the only thing that makes sense to me (at this time) is i (the ego?) am becoming excited and scaring those birds away?

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unit, on 05 May 2012 - 03:25 PM, said:

i read the article and not ashamed to report it makes little sense to me at this time..

..so... who is responsible for 'making me forget'?

myself?

for what reason..?

i am reminded of a teaching; when you quiet your mind like a still lake, great birds of wisdom will come..

..the only thing that makes sense to me (at this time) is i (the ego?) am becoming excited and scaring those birds away?

That was my guess. A moment of an idea, thought, or memory brought in by the selfless part of me, interrupted by the gimme gimme part of me (ego) who makes it promptly run away and take its toys with it. I forget who it was that said here that the very part of you that actively seeks meditation experiences (ego) is the part that never can.