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Posted by gardenergirl on February 4, 2005, at 8:20:55
Okay, I was leaving my session this week and still kind of chewing on what we had talked about. As I got to my car, I thought to myself (only partially joking) "I've been doing this the wrong way all along!" It was a bit of an epiphany. And I can't remember it! That's all I can remember of this particular insight! Arrrggggghhhhh!
Anyone else have an insight float away before you get a chance to grab onto it?
Grrrrr
gg
Posted by cubic_me on February 4, 2005, at 8:35:20
In reply to Insight just outside my grasp, posted by gardenergirl on February 4, 2005, at 8:20:55
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> Anyone else have an insight float away before you get a chance to grab onto it?
>All the time! It's the most frustrating thing, but sometimes it can come back to you at a completely unexpeted moment. I hope that happens for you.
Posted by sunny10 on February 4, 2005, at 9:35:05
In reply to Re: Insight just outside my grasp » gardenergirl, posted by cubic_me on February 4, 2005, at 8:35:20
yeah, me too !!!
Although, since I keep forgetting it, maybe it's the same epiphany over and over- I just think it's different!
I am much better, today, than I was a year ago, so maybe my SUBCONSCIENCE is remembering though....
Posted by mair on February 4, 2005, at 9:42:56
In reply to Insight just outside my grasp, posted by gardenergirl on February 4, 2005, at 8:20:55
Posted by Dinah on February 4, 2005, at 10:19:59
In reply to Insight just outside my grasp, posted by gardenergirl on February 4, 2005, at 8:20:55
I suspect the internal forces for homeostasis are very very strong.
Posted by Daisym on February 4, 2005, at 11:06:03
In reply to All the time, posted by Dinah on February 4, 2005, at 10:19:59
me too. But I think I try so hard to intellectualize the emotions that they float away. I want there to be an understandable explanation for every feeling.
I'm having trouble with my dreams around this lately. And usually I remember my dreams.
Posted by Shortelise on February 4, 2005, at 11:43:33
In reply to Insight just outside my grasp, posted by gardenergirl on February 4, 2005, at 8:20:55
Yes, yes, yes.
I wonder if it's because the thought is such a threat to how I am, to the ways of being I have so carefully cultivated, that I can't retain it.
ShortE
Posted by Speaker on February 4, 2005, at 17:38:14
In reply to Re: Insight just outside my grasp » gardenergirl, posted by Shortelise on February 4, 2005, at 11:43:33
YES In fact it happens so often I tell my friends that I have total recall...just not same day service! I feel like my mind goes so fast and in so many directions that if I can grasp a few thoughts and keep them I'm doing well.
Take care gg!
Marie
Posted by fallsfall on February 4, 2005, at 19:00:23
In reply to Insight just outside my grasp, posted by gardenergirl on February 4, 2005, at 8:20:55
This week in therapy I said "What I want, at the end of the day is..." and by then I had forgotten what I wanted. I filled in something, but it wasn't really what I wanted to say. Then I said "Between the beginning of the sentance and the end of the sentance I forgot what I wanted".
Sometimes if I can go back over what I was thinking just before that I can remember what it was. But lots of times it is just plain gone.
Posted by gardenergirl on February 7, 2005, at 22:39:08
In reply to Re: Insight just outside my grasp » gardenergirl, posted by fallsfall on February 4, 2005, at 19:00:23
Well, I'm glad (?) that I'm not the only one. I guess it's a psychological phenomenon rather than swiss cheesy memory.
sigh, it still hasn't come back. Usually I forget before I remember...lol, does that make sense? Now that I remember the moment but not the content..it's driving me crazy.
oh well. If it's important, it will be back.
gg
Posted by sunny10 on February 8, 2005, at 11:29:01
In reply to Re: Insight just outside my grasp, posted by Speaker on February 4, 2005, at 17:38:14
so funny you should say that.... I've been known to say that I have a photographic memory, but nowadays I seem to have the wrong film!
Posted by gardenergirl on February 9, 2005, at 11:18:28
In reply to Re: Insight just outside my grasp » Speaker, posted by sunny10 on February 8, 2005, at 11:29:01
The topic came up again this session, and it triggered my memory. My T laughed at me when I talked with my hands and demonstrated grasping at air to try to pull the insight back.
Anyway, it involves a different way of looking at my depression and how to combat it. It involves giving up the "broken invalid" role and working from my strengths. I still can't really articulate it, but I have a better idea.
Yeah, I always say if it's important it will come back up. Didn't think it would be so soon, though.
gg
Posted by fallsfall on February 9, 2005, at 13:57:54
In reply to I remembered! Woo hoo!, posted by gardenergirl on February 9, 2005, at 11:18:28
Posted by Speaker on February 9, 2005, at 15:00:36
In reply to I remembered! Woo hoo!, posted by gardenergirl on February 9, 2005, at 11:18:28
Posted by Dinah on February 10, 2005, at 19:34:51
In reply to I remembered! Woo hoo!, posted by gardenergirl on February 9, 2005, at 11:18:28
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