Huh. Interesting question. For me, I think I have really good memory for certain things, and fairly spotty memory for others. I've always assumed it was down to

Huh. Interesting question. For me, I think I have really good memory for certain things, and fairly spotty memory for others. I've always assumed it was down to a question of focus and interest. That is, things I'm interested in and care more about, I retain more. Strangely enough, just yesterday I went for a physical. My doctor was talking about something drug related, and like 20 minutes later he said something else, and I interjected with a comment like "Wait, earlier you said X, now you're saying Y, so does that me we could Z?" He goes "wow, you have a good memory." Meh... I don't know about that, but the subject at hand was important and interesting. OTOH, I feel like I have a lot of trivia stuff into my head, but am pretty bad at what another commenter described as "autobiographical memory". I could tell you nearly nothing about what I did on, say, Monday of this week. I mean, I know I went to work, because I always go to work. But beyond that? Not much. Does that matter? Probably not, because I think it just means nothing particularly interesting or novel happened on Monday. But I could tell you all about the day a few weeks ago when I was driving to work and a mattress (or something) flew off of a truck in front of me and landed in the road right in front of my vehicle and nearly caused a big wreck on the Interstate. Anyway, at the end of it all, I think the answer to this question is the same as a lot of questions about health issues on the Internet: if you're genuinely worried, go see a licensed medical professional. Maybe it's nothing and you wasted a half day on a doctor's visit. But maybe it's something and going in and getting some kind of treatment will save your life.