[poll] faces, finding people in a crowd

[wispfox]

Wanted to do a poll about visualizing people's faces, as well as relating to the fact that I have a hell of a time finding people in a crowd. Exhausted, but wanted to do this before I forgot. :)

[Poll #341839]

Comments

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

My main problem is the opposite, when I can recognize someone's face and I know I should know them, but I can't remember their name. It's a freakin' epidemic in my family.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I have both problems. :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Also, Have you heard of dysnomia (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dysnomia) already? That's the name problem you mention.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I've always linked it more with the ADD, though, and the whole thing where it's hard to remember immediate things if I can't read them. (But hey, it has a name!)

(So if I get introduced to someone, then I can't remember their name off the top of my head, 15 mins later. That doesn't explain the people who have been vague acquaintances for years and who I suddenly blank on, but anyway.)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

That doesn't explain the people who have been vague acquaintances for years and who I suddenly blank on, but anyway.

*chuckle* No, it doesn't. And I do that, sometimes. :)

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

I had heard of dysnomia, but had forgotten what it was called.


(grin) (But true!)

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I've always had a terrible time remembering Proper Nouns. The names of people, the titles of movies or books, the names of songs. I often resort to the subterfuge of "introducing" friends by saying, "Oh - you two introduce yourselves, I'll be back in a sec." (Which, of course, doesn't help me at all.

I watched three movies on DVD over the weekend. I can see the actors' faces in my mind's eye, I can explain the plots in some detail, I could probably even quote some of the dialogue. But I can only remember the title of one of them ("Statement") and the fact that the lead actor was Michael Caine - and that took some serious concentration, and the fact that the title appeared over and over in the course of the movie.

I can remember the lyrics to every song the Beatles ever wrote, but I'm spotty on their titles (unless the title is right there in the lyrics) and which albums they're from.

I don't, so far as I know, suffer from ADD or anything like that. I just have a blank spot in the part of my memory that retains proper nouns.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I've always had a terrible time remembering Proper Nouns. The names of people, the titles of movies or books, the names of songs.

Me, too, but I think you've got it worse than I do. Crazy.

You know, I should eventually have a goal of visiting you, since I didn't make it to the APC you were actually at!

That way I can have visited both of the non-southern places that I will never live, in the US. ;)

(probably not until next year at the earliest, but wanted to mention the idea)

[kightp.livejournal.com]

That would be an enormous amount of fun. (-:

Alternatively (and more economically) come to apc12 in Baltimore in January. I'll be there. (-:

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yay! I shall be there! *pleased*