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Hi

If anyone has access to the following sources it would help to better expand and define the article:

• Absent-minded?: The psychology of mental lapses and everyday errors, J. T. Reason, Klara Mycielska: Pub. Prentice-Hall (1982): ISBN  0130017353 or 9780130017352
• Everyday memory: actions and absent-mindedness, John E. Harris, Peter Edwin Morris: Pub. Academic Press (1984): ISBN  0123276403 or 9780123276407

Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 19:06, 5 August 2011 (UTC) reply

Since added to Further Reading to start. -- Beland ( talk) 16:08, 23 February 2015 (UTC) reply

I would like to know what is a good remedy for my severe

Absent mindedness?  — Preceding 
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Could good food,rest and meditation help reduce absent mindedness? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.124.70.183 ( talk) 12:39, 27 May 2012 (UTC) reply

Could good food,rest and meditation help reduce absent mindedness? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.124.70.183 ( talk) 12:41, 27 May 2012 (UTC) reply

Does food,meditation and rest could help reduce absent mlndedness — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.124.70.183 ( talk) 12:49, 27 May 2012 (UTC) reply

It would be a public service to people like myself, if anyone psychologically knowledgeable were to shed light on triggers of absent-mindedness. Sometimes I have a brief sense of my normal awareness warning me that I'm slipping out of mental gear, and then I do slip out, but I don't know it until I'm dealing with the consequences later...purchase left on counter, failure to buy the thing I specifically went into a store to get, etc. It's like the regular awareness is behind a pane of thick glass, rapping and shouting that I'm in process of "losing it", but I can't hear the message properly and only see the wild gesticulations out of the corner of my eye. Can bright fluorescent lights, or stomach empty/stomach full fluctuations, or caffeine overload have a triggering effect on absent-mindedness? Rootlet ( talk) 00:32, 29 November 2012 (UTC) reply

I have often heard that absent-mindedness is a common experience for people with ADHD. More information on this would be good. Karebear8400 ( talk) 23:14, 26 September 2022 (UTC) reply

Hey, is it some kind of inside joke that there are two "see also" sections in this article? Ivanvector ( talk) 19:26, 31 October 2014 (UTC) reply

Heh, no. Fixed! -- Beland ( talk) 16:09, 23 February 2015 (UTC) reply