Do you get people you just met mixed up?

[Zaldakki]

If I'm somewhere where I meet a bunch of new people, like at a new school or on a cruise or something, I get a lot of people's faces confused at the beginning. As time goes on howevet, the people start to look more and more different. Often, I feel embarassed in hindsight for even thinking they looked alike, even if no one knew I thought that. Am I the only one who experiences this?

[Luveria]

Sometimes.

[Tagmatium]

I'm generally fucking awful with names.

I've called people who I've known for years by different names, often cycling through names (including my own) before getting the correct one.

[Regenburg]

A lot.Or I just hate places with lots of people in general.

[United British Union]

I can't say I have, no.

[L Ron Cupboard]

It is pretty common, and there are memory techniques for overcoming it with practice if you care to find them. We just are not that good at remembering two entirely new things and connecting them, so we need to link them to things we are already familiar with.

[Nevanmaa]

This happens to me at nightclubs. Mostly because 99% of women there have blonde hair and dress in black tops and such, making them really indistinguishable.. especially when you're drunk. A few weeks ago, I talked with a girl in a bar on four separate occasions and I thought I had met four different people

Otherwise I'm pretty good with names.

[Tubbsalot]

No. Once I've seen a face or heard a name, they are immediately and irrevocably scorched into my mind, such that I can never mix up anyone, ever, in any situation. This is what all humans are like.

[Tagmatium]

No. Once I've seen a face or heard a name, they are immediately and irrevocably scorched into my mind, such that I can never mix up anyone, ever, in any situation. This is what all humans are like.

So...

I'm not human?

[Imperializt Russia]

Archery club at University meets twice a week, for Novice members (new members).
One term in, I still know hardly any of their names

[Ragnarum]

I dont even bother to remember peoples names when I meet them. I wait until I figure out there name and then eventually fuse it to them.

[Lipnitia]

I'm generally fucking awful with names.

I've called people who I've known for years by different names, often cycling through names (including my own) before getting the correct one.

The same here.

[Elmorica]

YES!

Goodness, names. Why do we need you? Well, apart from self-identity, emotional warmth and poking fun. And for looking good with a title...

You know, cancel that. We need names.
But why do they all have to be so different?

Honestly, I love names. Especially odd ones or foreign ones. But still. Why do some people have to be called Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116?

[Zottistan]

All the time. Their names, too.

Don't know why this is a thread, though.

[Tagmatium]

I'm generally fucking awful with names.

I've called people who I've known for years by different names, often cycling through names (including my own) before getting the correct one.

The same here.

Ah, so I'm not the only person without a functional brain.

[Nervium]

Yes. This is the result of drunk summers and hitting my head as child.


Or not, I've always been bad at memorising names, now faces, I can always remember a face.

[Ashmoria]

no I have no problem keeping people sorted out. I do tend to forget names. if its been long enough since ive seen someone I only met once, I forget I ever met them at all.

[New Caledonia]

Sometimes.

This.

[SaintB]

I'm great at keeping people sorted in my mind by faces and I can remember tidbits I pick up well enough. Names on the other hand slip right past me into the aether and I forget them all the time, sometimes even people I've known for a long time.

[AiliailiA]

I have a good memory for faces. I am embarrassingly bad at remembering names. Unless it's a really unusual name, I have to use a mnemonic or it won't stick the first, second or even third time.

[AiliailiA]

I'm great at keeping people sorted in my mind by faces and I can remember tidbits I pick up well enough. Names on the other hand slip right past me into the aether and I forget them all the time, sometimes even people I've known for a long time.

I wish men wouldn't call themselves either Bill or Bob. I had a grandfather (step-grandpa actually, dead now) whose name was Bill. The only way I can be sure of that is to use the mnemonic "he died and left my grandma with the bill" ... which is hardly a respectful way to remember the dead.

[Indira]

Regularly

[Wind in the Willows]

No, I am actually very good at remembering faces and names.

[Breadknife]

I'm awful with names and faces. It takes a while for me to remember people. "Hello there!" has been my standard greeting to people in the street, where "Hello [Graham|Alan|Archibald|Randolph|Anthony|Ferdinand|Clarissa]!" would have been the more targetted greeting.

Although I usually eventually get it right. Still, for one of my old bosses I would often keep on referencing them by the name of a previous boss (from a totally different company, a decade earlier). Totally different names, as well, not a simple slip.

[YellowApple]

All the time. I can't remember names for the life of me.