My memory is weird. I can remember somethings right down to what color the linoleum was on the floor as a child. I remember the most minute details about computers. However, I forget my children's name. I agonize over having to memorize a specific thing. Sometimes my whole brain just ups and leaves without me. I decided to look into games that help train my brain. I don't remember where I came across www.lumosity.com/Memory-Games but I looked at it for over a year before taking the plunge and investing in a membership. It is fun, mostly. There is one that is a bird watching game that a bird flashes on the screen and I have to click on it after it disappears. To make it more challenging I also have to remember the design that is in the middle of the scene. The flash is so quick I stare at the center and use my peripheral vision to spot the bird. To add another layer of complexity blobs flash too. Clicking on a blob instead of a bird is a miss. I groaned every time this game pops up.
My opinion changed last night. I was driving home after my karate class and out of the corner of my eye I saw a black flash. Not a bird but a motorcycle rider in the lane I almost moved into. Not only was a paying attention to my own lane I saw and identified the black blob in a split second. I don't think the motorcycle rider realized how close a call happened last night. I am now very thankful I practiced for months at getting better at a game I didn't like. I missed him. That by itself paid for the use of the game. Never too old to learn new tricks if I am willing to work for it.
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