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VideoboysaysCube posted...

I don't believe that alone is anything too worrisome. Heck, I'm young and I've had at least two or three occurrences where I wake up from a dream and question for a moment if what I said or did during the dream was something that really happened.

BucketCat posted...

nah, probably not. I have dreams like that every now and then about high school, and I'll wake up stressing about a paper or homework, but I've been out of school for over a decade lol.

I can vouch for both of these.

Also even when an older person does have a genuine moment of forgetfulness, that isn't necessarily a sign of dementia. It's a sign of an aging brain. They call them "senior moments" for a reason after all. When it becomes routine and starts going beyond that, like they start forgetting where the bowls are kept (the same place they've been for the last 40 years) or their children's names that you should consider getting them looked at.

I watched this happen with my grandmother. You get to know the signs.
I freak out every time my mother has a moment (age 70) because there's a good chance we are genetically disposed toward dementia. Said grandmother was one of eight children and four of them - including her - developed it. There's coincidence, and then there's that.