Missing small details

lobotomize-me

I'm currently in exam season at my university, and I've become increasingly frustrated by a recurring issue. When reading exam questions or instructions, I often unintentionally skip or distort important details. For example, I recently misread a question that clearly stated, "List three environmental factors affecting plant growth and explain their impacts," but I mistakenly read it as, "List environmental factors affecting plants." Due to this oversight, I provided a broader, less focused answer, which wasn't what the question required. It's as if my brain autocorrects or distorts the information as I read it, causing me to miss critical details. Later, when I review my answers, I realize the mistakes were due to these brief mental farts

I find this especially frustrating because these errors feel avoidable, yet they keep happening. Has anyone experienced something similar, and if so, what strategies or advice could you offer to help prevent or minimize these comprehension errors?

@lobotomize-me said in Missing small details:

I'm currently in exam season at my university, and I've become increasingly frustrated by a recurring issue. When reading exam questions or instructions, I often unintentionally skip or distort important details. For example, I recently misread a question that clearly stated, "List three environmental factors affecting plant growth and explain their impacts," but I mistakenly read it as, "List environmental factors affecting plants." Due to this oversight, I provided a broader, less focused answer, which wasn't what the question required. It's as if my brain autocorrects or distorts the information as I read it, causing me to miss critical details. Later, when I review my answers, I realize the mistakes were due to these brief mental farts

I find this especially frustrating because these errors feel avoidable, yet they keep happening. Has anyone experienced something similar, and if so, what strategies or advice could you offer to help prevent or minimize these comprehension errors?

perhaps you did read "three" as "tree".

It is somewhat a based tendency to not fully read a text, just run over it and catch what is usefull or has value, a lot of text these days are just yapping that have no real value for you

ThinPicking

Maybe simple. Take a day where it's of no consequence and drink more water than usual between your waking hour and the mid afternoon. Test yourself.

lobotomize-me

@random I know but sadly, to get a degree, one has to put up with the yapping

lobotomize-me

@ThinPicking ??? Why? To check if i am sufficently hydrated?

ThinPicking

Play with it. The maintenance of tonicity, which is more than blood, in line with circadian can profoundly alter cognition. In ways that can be hard to notice outside of application.

If you do as described, don't assume any additional bathroom trips are just it "passing through" you. Your renal will also dump solute. Your "state" will change.

gg12

@lobotomize-me lobo from the rpz discord server is that you?

NoeticJuice

@ThinPicking interesting. Could you share or direct to resources for further learning on this topic?

lobotomize-me

@gg12 no but can you share a invite link

ThinPicking

I read it in a spread in a dusty edition of Reader's Digest in my grandma's garage @NoeticJuice. r/HydroHomies on reddit was also pivotal. Also...

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Source, trust me bro. I read things.

ThinPicking

jk, go for a walk here.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=hydration+cognition
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cognition+tonicity
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cognition+fluid+balance
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cognition+fluid+dynamics

Join it up with some searches on the circadian of HPA endo's and renal function.

https://bioenergetic.forum/post/44362

You'll find contradiction for uncontrolled factors. Align your "chakras" to sniff it out.

Most of all. Self experiment. It helps in this case to have a crappy job heavy on cognitive labour. You'd notice things.

NoeticJuice

@ThinPicking thank you