Trying To Remember What I Was Going To Say!

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Isn't it frustrating when one has a really good and worthwhile point to make on a subject, even if it is a subject in itself, and I just can't remember what it was. I've had this now for nearly two days. It is like I have "Almost remembered" what it is so if I was in a conversation I would be opening my mouth to speak... (Ok, this is something I was going to type, but it is along similar lines...)

Am I making any sense?

It feels like the words are coming up from inside me but they don't come out. Grr! This was and is frustrating! What was it?

Yes it happens often to me too. Always at the most inopportune times. Meaning, it is a point that holds weight in the balance of important things. Wonder why. I realize much later after the fact even months to a year later.

Oh and I have to add that this is why I go on endlessly as there is a fear of missing essential info for myself or the other person in keeping things brief.

As brief becomes too brief and open to misunderstandings esp if the person already is not at 'the same wavelength' as everyone else.

The more you stick out the more you annoy people--but I guess with me, it happens regardless.

Much doubt is also quelled when you ramble as you're unwinding the tangled thoughts.

Then you can find what point you were looking for before, and it's easier to put thoughts together for future. Like finding a missing puzzle piece --among other jumbled puzzle pieces from other puzzles.

I guess journalling is the ideal way to do that.

A constant refrain for me is, 'Sorry what was I going to say?'

And others of course say, 'I don't know, I'm not you. You tell me.'

Yeah....this happens to me, too

It’s frustrating.

Yes, too often, but I don't have the patience to try to remember what I lost after a couple of days. Though the idea sometimes pops up a week later, randomly.

That kind of thing happens to me quite regularly . Not so much with talking in my case , but thinking I'll check out x with Google . It's like someone has sucked it out of my brain . There is the the knowledge I wanted to look up something , but absolutely no clue what it was .

I then start to somewhat obsessively try and recover the memory of what I was planning to look up . Sometimes after a while it comes to me , and sometimes not .

Same here!
If I had a penny for every time I’ve thought: “what was I thinking about again?” ...

And then, yes, all trains of thought do recommence: but often hours, days or weeks after the time when they were relevant.
Pesky.

I do this, too! I sometimes go so far as to get halfway to my point and then it's like I can't formulate the right words to get the point across or I sometimes forget the point I was trying to make in the first place.

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...nope. It's gone.