Pluggers by Rick McKee for October 29, 2019

happens to the best of us

When I was a child watching TV I would think of something I needed from 1. the kitchen, or 2. Upstairs. When I finally had time to fetch whatever I often found myself trying to remember what it was I went to get. At least I got some exercise.

Science agrees:

https://news.nd.edu/news/walking-through-doorways-causes-forgetting-new-research-shows/

It’s the bane of many a Plugger’s existence isn’t it-coming into a room and forgetting what you came into that room to do or to retrieve.;-D

I callit a senior moment!!!

Um, they DO! It is called an event horizon!

I read that if you walk into a room and forget what you were there for, step back out, turn around and come back in. It resets your brain and you remember what it was. It works!

Forget doorways, I keep forgetting without them.

I have moments at work whereas I’ll set a part down on a work bench and, I swear, ten seconds later I can’t see it anywhere! Usually someone will be close by and help me look for it, only to find it right where I set it. SMH

At Safeway they deliberately move my car while I shop! Once I had to walk home ’cause I could not find where they parked it.

It’s all a part of life and we all adapt.

Just a simple brain reset …

A brain flatulent.

depends on the planet you’re presently on…

I call it a brain fart!

It’s like a time warp, walk thru any doorway guarantees you will forget what you were going to do.

Even worse, I often walk all the way to the barn and forget why.

An elderly couple were watching television. At a commercial break, the wife gets up and says, “I’m going for some ice cream, would you like some?” He tells her, yes, with some strawberries, thank you. He tells her, “Remember to write it down as the Doctor today told us it would help since we’ve been forgetting things lately.”

“Oh!” The wife said, I can certainly remember I’m going to get ice cream!" And out to the kitchen she went.

The husband was engrossed in the program again when the wife returned and handed him a plate of fried eggs. He looked at it and at her and asked, “Where is my toast?”

I call it thinking about the hereafter: he goes somewhere for something and then wonders what he’s here after.

Actually, they do. There was a study that found that crossing a boundary of some sort tends to reset your thought process.

I just read all the comments but forgot what the strip was about.

I have that beat I’ll be talking to someone and totally forget what I was talking about!?!?

I read an actually sensible scientific (partial) explanation of this phenomenon (which I call an interest in the hereafter, as in “what am I here after?”). Often what we are after is not naturally associated in our minds with the room we just entered, and thus is dropped. An example is being in the bathroom, realizing you need to purchase tp. You go to the kitchen to write it on your shopping list on the fridge. TP is not associated with the kitchen, so when you get there you forget why you came.

And the button in your butt when you sit back down resets it.

The arch of forgetfulness.

Settled Science… https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/

Out of sight – out of mind. The thing that triggered the errand is gone from view, – I can walk back into the room look around and remember what it was – usually – sometimes – not at all.

“Our research laboratories have established that magnetic fieldscreated by the metal in the nails, screws, and doorknobs, found inhallways, stairwells and doorways, may occasionally  cause people over55 to lose track of why they are there.”

An excerpt from the 2009 Annual Report of the Institute for the Studyof Senior Moments

There was a show called “Brain Games” that demonstrated this principle. Crossing a threshold really does cause one’s brain to reset itself and forget what we were headed into that room to do. The suggestion was made that we silently tell ourselves repeatedly as we cross the threshold why we are going there. That resets the task into the immediate memory. I’ve tried it and it does work.

Have read this comic before?

I can remember reasons I came there before anyone notices I forgot. Names, on the other hand…

…. Why….. What…. Why am I looking at this for?

Nah the same thing happens to me at times and I’m only 31. I’ve been having this problem since probably my teens