«About 50 percent of pregnant women describe episodes of absentmindedness during pregnancy,» Redelmeier says, and those brief lapses can be disastrous when driving. (sciencenews.org)
In 1970, in what he later described as a fit of «vocational absentmindedness,» he ran for Congress, but his true vocation was the pulpit and the press, not the hustings. (firstthings.com)
Pregnant women often experience «baby brain» — a period of forgetfulness and absentmindedness due to less oxygen circulating in the brain (checkpregnancy.com)