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trof

(54,255 posts)
Sun May 21, 2017, 08:18 PM May 2017

Anybody else have 'spot blindness'?

Spot Blindness: If an item is not in the exact same location where you last placed it, or if it's not in the exact same location where it been for days, weeks, or months, you can't see it.

It could be a foot or two away, in plain view, but if it's not where you're used to seeing it, it goes 'invisible'.

I suffer from this and I know a few 'elderly' men who also do.

You?

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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
1. So if a Dalmation dog was standing in front of you..........
Sun May 21, 2017, 08:20 PM
May 2017

what would you see?

I suffer from key blindness occasionally. As in, where are the keys?

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. My ladyfriend is just opposite. If something is not in same spot she put it, she notices and yells
Sun May 21, 2017, 08:25 PM
May 2017

at me. But I love her anyway.

Beakybird

(3,329 posts)
4. My mom sees spots everywhere
Sun May 21, 2017, 08:32 PM
May 2017

She said wherever she looks she sees spots. I asked her if she saw the doctor, and she said, "No, just spots."

Brother Buzz

(36,212 posts)
5. Yes
Sun May 21, 2017, 08:38 PM
May 2017

And I believe "She Who Must be Obeyed" is intentionally trying to exacerbate my condition to drive me insane. She does this in diabolical ways, like telling me I put the milk away in the cabinet, and the cereal in the refrigerator; only an idiot would do that.

trof

(54,255 posts)
6. Miz t. has some strange ways.
Sun May 21, 2017, 08:49 PM
May 2017

After we turned the house upside down, inside out, looking for her keys I found them, quite by accident, in the refrigerator.

The reconstructed scenario:
She was bringing in groceries and putting some things in the fridge.
Still had the keys in her hand.
The phone rang.
She put the keys down on the closest flat horizontal surface which was the fridge shelf she was facing.
Viola!

Brother Buzz

(36,212 posts)
9. I love playing that game even....
Sun May 21, 2017, 09:22 PM
May 2017

if I forget what we're searching for after three minutes because I always find something I lost in the past, even if I can't remember why I was looking for it.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
7. I do also
Sun May 21, 2017, 09:10 PM
May 2017

I have never heard it given a name before.

One thing I think happens is I have a picture in my mind of what I think what I am looking for looks like and where it is and that picture is what I look for.

The problem is that picture in my mind is not a picture of reality

3catwoman3

(23,812 posts)
8. My husband has a rare form of...
Sun May 21, 2017, 09:15 PM
May 2017

...color-blindness - the red-blue form. If I tell him there are leftovers in the fridge in a red-topped container and it is blue rather than red, he won't find them.

I am dust and clutter blind. I could put something on my stairs with the intent of taking whatever it is upstairs later, and it could sit there for weeks. I used to have a sign on my closet doorknob that said, "You may touch the dust, but please don't write in it."

Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
10. My husband does. He also suffers from the inability to use his hands to move one object
Sun May 21, 2017, 10:13 PM
May 2017

to get to the object he does want, located directly behind the first object. He can't find what he's looking for because the object never stands up and waves at him, shouting "I'm here!", "I'm here!".

He tells me he can't see through paper/metal/glass etc., - whatever material is blocking the desired item - and I have to agree with him that he isn't Superman.

I lose my glasses all the time. Even when they are pushed up on my head or precisely where they are meant to be.

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