Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for March 25, 2024

The beginning of the end.

call one for me already …

SHIVA, don’t be in such a hurry! He should just go back to the other room and it’ll come to him. Works every time.

Now, what did I come here to comment, again?

Been there . . . heck, what was I about to say? . . . oh yes, done that.

That’s a common enough phenomenon that researchers have done studies on it.

It’s not a problem until you walk into the bathroom and can’t remember why you went in there.

It often happens as peoole age. I remember events from very early childhood, but forget why I went someplace a minute ago. Seems that short-term memory doesn’t last as long-term.

BTW. Adam—that brat of yours is no help at all!!

…or your rectum.

I won’t wait that long

More than likely I’ll remember 20 seconds after I give up and go sit down

I’m not going to worry about it until I forget that I came into the kitchen to get a beer.

If I could just remember why I’m reading this…

There was a study that looked into this phenomenon. Apparently walking into a different room does make it harder to remember what you went in for. They were looking into why this happened, but they had to move the experiment to a different room and forgot what they were doing.

Adam? Leave the room. Go the garage or to the grocery. As soon as you get far enough away you’ll remember what you needed.

Adam is thinking about the hereafter.

I find myself doing that more and more.

The daughter already has it on her mind…….

Good to know an hour is the tipping point, so far.. I have either found it or have given up long before an hour.

That is not a sign of Alzheimer’s, or dementia. People very frequently forget where they place things, why they went into a room, and many other episodes that some try to associate with creeping dementia. In fact, it’s a very common phenomenon in all adults and a lot of study has been done on it.

Brush your teeth if the toothbrush is dry. Take a shower if the towel isn’t damp. The white noise clears your mind and you will remember that the mower is out of gas.

He can’t get assistance living there?

In real life, there is a name for that…and Harrell must been saving that for a while…since it’s an oldie but goodie.

It’s called “the doorway effect”….

If it happens to you, just go back the same way you came in, and you’ll remember. The advice is to carry a little pad in one of your pockets and note your intent. It’s worse when you go all the way upstairs, or to the basement, and forget why you went there…and then you have to climb all those stairs again…

But then you might remember half way, well don’t just turn around on the stairs, because you might fall!!!… which is a cause of many injuries for older adults and they said in the hospital that they remembered something and turned around on the stairs…

Tell Mom to go slap him upside the head, that will fix it.

The table lamp. It has something to do with the table lamp.

It is a scientific fact that walking through a doorway makes you forget things. Google “walking through a door and forgetting.”