I just recalled one that happened to me here. I had misplaced a small, thin utility knife that I keep in one of my kitchen drawers. I had looked and looked for it, and just wrote it off as being gone, perhaps to resurface as some point in the future. Someone (I think @Nancy Hart) was looking at drawer organizers, so I took a pic of my setup and was resizing it to upload. While I was messing with the pic on my laptop, I saw my utility knife...in the picture!! It had slopped over from its regular compartment into the adjacent one, and was half-buried under large serving spoons and the big Land of the Giants salad fork. I guess I looked at all the stuff and my mind processed it as it should have been and not what was actually there. I got up and went into the kitchen, and there my utility knife was...just like in the picture! *sigh*
They say that losing words is a sign of alzheimers. When I am on here I sometimes have to leave and go to a search engine to find a synonym or some word I can't remember. But then, I have been interchanging my kids' names since I have had more than one kid.
Really? I've had that issue for a while. I figured it was because I'm not working and not only use my vocabulary less, I only talk to other people when shopping or at medical appointments. My mother had Alzheimer's and then dementia. It's really not a bad way to go for the patient...sort of nature's anesthesia. It sucks for those around them.
My doctor told me a few years ago that if a person forgets a word like "pencil," that's no problem. If they look at a pencil and have no idea what it is, things just got real.