Since 1998 I've been asking doctors to investigate problems with my brain function, and have never been taken seriously. Sometimes I felt like my brain was stuck in molasses - unable to move forward in thought. In my early 40s I was making the mistakes that a senior with signs of dementia would make. Eventually it got so bad that I forgot what year and decade we are in while I was signing and dating a form last summer. I struggled for several minutes to work out what year it was. Now I have had an odd problem with my eyes in the morning and I wonder if there could be a connection. I wake up without opening my eyes yet I think I have opened them. (Either that or I did open my eyes but was unable to see.) Believing that the sun is not yet up, I continue to lie in a while until finally I open my eyes to find the room brightly lit with daylight. Yet none of that light was filtering through my eyelids; it looked as dark as the middle of the night when my eyes were closed. It's a shock to realize that I was lying there thinking it was dark out when in fact the sun had been up for at least an hour. Has anyone heard of this situation before? I know someone will say "see a doctor" but five doctors have already shrugged off the memory / concentration problems in the past, with stupid remarks like "You are under stress. You have a lot on your plate."