Do you ever walk into a room and forget why you went in there?

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[–]scornedandsedated 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Door thresholds can trigger a shift in thought in humans. We see doors as passages to a different area, and discard thoughts from the other room.

[–]JerkChicken[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So if you push someone through a doorway, you can really mess with them

[–]SMCAB 4 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

Only when I'm stoned. I'll go in the garage for a screwdriver and half an hour later I'm playing darts.

[–]JerkChicken[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Time is better spent playing darts anyway, kudos to the stoned brain

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Not when you have a faucet spraying across your kitchen.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

So when you go through any doorway you run the risk of entering a different timeline. You don't forget what you went in for rather what you went in for is no longer relevant. Your brain has to quickly make something up before you realise what happened. If you go back through the doorway to where you started from fast enough you can jump back into your original timeline where your purpose for going through the for makes sense and it will come back to you.

[–]Clown_Chan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah All the time since i reached my 30s.

Even on internet, sometines I'll grab my phone and open browser but couldn't remember what did I ever want to search or visit, lol

[–]SPedigrees 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The older you get, the more this will happen. Double the effect if you are tired. Take it from one who knows.

[–]Clown_Chan 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oh no, it will be even worse in the future? But im already often forgetable and slow minded, lol

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sometimes I'm searching my glasses only to realize some minutes later, I actually am wearing them.

I don't wear contact-lenses for the same reason. When I wear them, I almost always forget to take them out, before going to sleep.

[–]bucetao6969 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes.

Basically this happens when I'm multitasking. When I am in the process of one task, another task becomes the focus. As I'm finishing the task, I forget the final steps. Going into a room is purely mechanical and doesn't require much thinking. What you where gonna do in that room becomes the problem.

If you have this be a problem to you, start a diary and to-do lists, make daily routines.

[–]Alphix 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's called SMOKING WEED.

[–]chottohen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A good exercise is to try to describe what a door is. Yes, I do that at least once a day.

[–]LadrenaLynx 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Whenever it's a family gathering waiting inside.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No.

[–]JerkChicken[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't believe you

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. I got over it by making up a mantra "beer, piss, smokes; beer, piss, smokes; beer, piss, smokes; beer, piss, smokes; beer, piss, smokes".