They say going through a door “re-sets” your mind to whatever happens in that room. If you are in the bathroom and realize you need to buy TP, when you walk into the kitchen or den to add it to your shopping list, you forget when you go through, because you don’t use TP in those rooms.
Being that doorways are constrictions in our paths, I theorize that our lapses of memory are caused by the “venturi effect.” Lay definition… stuff traveling at a certain speed in an enclosed corridor will increase in speed if the corridor narrows. I believe that, while our body’s speed may not be readily affected, our mental processes accelerate. With neural speeds for thinking running roughly 70 ft/sec, then getting ramped up to around 300 ft/sec, our jaunt through a doorway leaves our brain in the proverbial dust of our now-racing thoughts!!
When I go down into the basement for something, LilG loads me up with items that she wants put away downstairs. I almost always finish her tasks and the reach the top step and realize that I have to go back down for my original task.
ratlum over 10 years ago
Now Opals got it ,Earls got it and I cant remember what it was.
Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
If Sylvia or Nelson ask Opal to move, then maybe they too will forget why they entered the room.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 10 years ago
Not a train of thoughtA train-wreck of forgetfulness
Shawn Black Premium Member over 10 years ago
forgetfulness transference
Pretzelcoatl over 10 years ago
If walking through the door makes you forget why you came in, try entering through the window next time.
Albany58 over 10 years ago
Old-timers must stay away from doors.
pelican47 over 10 years ago
Need to carry around a note-pad to write it down before you forget. Or maybe a little recorder.
Baba27 over 10 years ago
But what if you forget to write it down/record it or forget that you wrote it down/recorded it?
eddie alexander Premium Member over 10 years ago
What was I going to write in this space???
ladykat over 10 years ago
Who am I? Why am I here? Who cares??
Dani Rice over 10 years ago
They say going through a door “re-sets” your mind to whatever happens in that room. If you are in the bathroom and realize you need to buy TP, when you walk into the kitchen or den to add it to your shopping list, you forget when you go through, because you don’t use TP in those rooms.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
gwfyarm over 10 years ago
Like the old hereafter joke: “I spend a lot of time these days thinking about the hereafter… I walk into a room and wonder: what am I here after?”
OldTimer62 over 10 years ago
They say memory is the second thing to go… and I can’t remember what the first thing was!
jeanie5448 over 10 years ago
try going back to wherever you were when you had the thought, that will reset your brain to the original thought and then you can write it down.
Dr_Fogg over 10 years ago
The Here After.
tahoeh2o over 10 years ago
CRS…
unca jim over 10 years ago
OH YEAH ! NOW I remember; buy batteries for this $%^&* RECORDER !!
jtviper7 over 10 years ago
Opal just can’t go a day without bothering Earl…
harleydk over 10 years ago
I do this all the time. One distraction and duh!
ThumperMcDuff over 10 years ago
Funny…I don’t remember being absentminded.
Rolf Rykken Premium Member over 10 years ago
Age-ist! Wait, what am I commenting on? Where’s Lola? She wouldn’t take this crap!
dsidney49 over 10 years ago
Being that doorways are constrictions in our paths, I theorize that our lapses of memory are caused by the “venturi effect.” Lay definition… stuff traveling at a certain speed in an enclosed corridor will increase in speed if the corridor narrows. I believe that, while our body’s speed may not be readily affected, our mental processes accelerate. With neural speeds for thinking running roughly 70 ft/sec, then getting ramped up to around 300 ft/sec, our jaunt through a doorway leaves our brain in the proverbial dust of our now-racing thoughts!!
Number Three over 10 years ago
Love it!
xxx
LuvThemPluggers over 10 years ago
It has recently been discovered that doorways have embedded memory erasing chips built into them. I forget who the scientist was who discovered it.
Radical-Knight over 10 years ago
Walking through dooways triggers memory loss. Google it!
gmasj over 10 years ago
You have to go back out to where you were before you went thru the door. Eventually you’ll remember. Been there, done that!
boldyuma over 10 years ago
If you forget something try drinking some “Milk Of Amnesia”(that’s what I called it when I was a kid)
cleokaya over 10 years ago
When I go down into the basement for something, LilG loads me up with items that she wants put away downstairs. I almost always finish her tasks and the reach the top step and realize that I have to go back down for my original task.