[chuck90199]

Whew! What a relief to learn this…

Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?

Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses. Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what’s known as an "event boundary" in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next.

Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.

Thank goodness for studies like this. It’s not my age, it’s that damn doorway!


Oh, did I post this already?

Originally Posted by chuck90199

Whew! What a relief to learn this…

Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?

Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses. Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what’s known as an "event boundary" in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next.

Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.

Thank goodness for studies like this. It’s not my age, it’s that damn doorway!


Oh, did I post this already?

That is indeed the best news I've heard all day.

[Nucky]

It is so true about the doorway. Chuck90199 where is today's joke?

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by chuck90199

Whew! What a relief to learn this…

Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?

Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses. Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what’s known as an "event boundary" in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next.

Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.

Thank goodness for studies like this. It’s not my age, it’s that damn doorway!


Oh, did I post this already?

That made my day.

[jsw14]

That's why I never close my Bathroom door when I have to go.......

[tomwed]

I'm going to practice shutting my eyes right as I go through.
I'll let you know later why it's a bad idea.

Originally Posted by jsw14

That's why I never close my Bathroom door when I have to go.......

Too much sharing

[Kenswing]

If you walk back to the room you came from does the thought come back?

[Abby10]

Originally Posted by chuck90199

Whew! What a relief to learn this…

Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?

Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses. Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what’s known as an "event boundary" in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next.

Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.

Thank goodness for studies like this. It’s not my age, it’s that damn doorway!


Oh, did I post this already?

Thanks for sharing.......

Originally Posted by jsw14

That's why I never close my Bathroom door when I have to go.......

and thanks for the laugh!

[Abby10]

Originally Posted by Kenswing

If you walk back to the room you came from does the thought come back?

Yes, hasn't this ever happened to you? It really does work. Happens to me all the time. If I go back to the location where I thought of the idea, the thought comes back almost as quickly as turning a light switch on. And it sometimes happens before I even get there.......which is where the doorway scenario comes in I guess.

[Kenswing]

Originally Posted by Abby10

Yes, hasn't this ever happened to you? It really does work. Happens to me all the time. If I go back to the location that I thought of the idea, the thought comes back almost as quickly as turning a light switch on. And it sometimes happens before I even get there.......which is where the doorway scenario comes in I guess.

From now on I think I'm going to stay in one room.. I'll have too many thoughts if I go through the entire house.. lol

[Abby10]

Originally Posted by Kenswing

From now on I think I'm going to stay in one room.. I'll have too many thoughts if I go through the entire house.. lol

Lol.....I guess you're just too young to have experienced all this wonderful phenomena yet.

[Kenswing]

Originally Posted by Abby10

Lol.....I guess you're just too young to have experienced all this wonderful phenomena yet.

Like this? lol

Curly - I'm trying to think - YouTube

[jsw14]

Originally Posted by Kenswing

From now on I think I'm going to stay in one room.. I'll have too many thoughts if I go through the entire house.. lol

HaaaHaaaa Ken, just wait tell U Retire & live in The Villages for awhile. I can get up from my chair & take two steps & Forget what I was go'in to do next.....

I call it VML>> (Village Memory Loss)

[EPutnam1863]

If this is true, why is it I often forget what I am searching for when I log into a browser?