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Topic: It's not you, it's the door!
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kernel
♀ 27035
Member # 27035 |  Posted: 7:32 PM, August 11th (Sunday), 2013 |     |
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 our age, it's that damn door!
I don't know about you, but I am choosing to believe this. Because it was on the internet. So it must be true. [This message edited by kernel at 7:33 PM, August 11th (Sunday)]
"On particularly rough days when I'm sure I can't possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100% and that's pretty good."
Posts: 5337 | Registered: Jan 2010 | From: Midwest |
caregiver9000
♀ 28622
Member # 28622 | | Posted: 7:36 PM, August 11th (Sunday), 2013 | |
Bonjour!!
I hit post reply and it opened this blank slate and .... I forgot what I was here for!
Me: 44, independent, happy, despite co-parenting with a lower muppet
FT "Stretch" (and Skew!) ;)
DS 13 DS 10
S 5/2010
D 12/2012
Posts: 6017 | Registered: May 2010 | From: a better place |
kernel
♀ 27035
Member # 27035 | | Posted: 8:12 PM, August 11th (Sunday), 2013 | |
Hahahahaha!
"On particularly rough days when I'm sure I can't possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100% and that's pretty good."
Posts: 5337 | Registered: Jan 2010 | From: Midwest |
click4it
♀ 209
Member # 209 | | Posted: 9:57 PM, August 11th (Sunday), 2013 | |
Ah ha the door. I like it. 
Me: 42
Two boys: 17 and 14
Divorced 12-13-05
d-day 10-02-01
Laughter will cure life's ills. Have you had your laugh today?
Posts: 25647 | Registered: Jun 2002 | From: California |
nowiknow23
♀ 33226
Member # 33226 | | Posted: 10:23 PM, August 11th (Sunday), 2013 | |
Totally plausible. I like it.
You can call me NIK
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
-Walt Whitman
Posts: 27057 | Registered: Aug 2011 |
Myname
♂ 23138
Member # 23138 | | Posted: 11:18 PM, August 11th (Sunday), 2013 | |
I'm going to the garage right now to get my tools to remove all the doorways in my house.
Wait. What did I come into the garage for?
DD: 1-14-09 EA/PA OM #1
TT: 5-11&12-09
DD#2: 5-18-09 EA OM #2
5-31-09: Told me she hasn't loved me.
No kids
Me BH: 38
12-08-10: S
Posts: 3260 | Registered: Mar 2009 | From: Inside your computer. |
gonnabe2016
♀ 34823
Member # 34823 | | Posted: 12:32 AM, August 12th (Monday), 2013 | |
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott
In my effort to be *concise*, I often come off as blunt and harsh. Sorry, don't mean to be offensive.
Posts: 8370 | Registered: Feb 2012 | From: Midwest |
Kajem
♀ 36134
Member # 36134 | | Posted: 2:50 AM, August 12th (Monday), 2013 | |
Wow! I guess it explains why we walk back thru the door to remember the previous thought.
Sadly, this explains my day - aimlessly walking around leaving thoughts in each room that have nothing to do with the room they are in and everything to do with the next room.
Oh we'll at least I M getting exercise walking around-of course nothing is getting done.
I trust you is a better compliment than I love you, because you may not trust the person you love, but you can always love the person you trust. - Unknown
Relationships are like sharing a book, it doesn't work if you're not on the same page.
Posts: 5907 | Registered: Jul 2012 | From: Florida |
Rebreather
♀ 30817
Member # 30817 | | Posted: 10:45 AM, August 12th (Monday), 2013 | |
Best.explanation.ever. Praise Maude!
Me BS
Him WH
2 ddays in '07
Rec'd.
"The cure for the pain, is the pain." -Rumi
Posts: 6792 | Registered: Jan 2011 |
MissesJai
♀ 24849
Member # 24849 | | Posted: 12:33 PM, August 12th (Monday), 2013 | |
I'll take it!
FWW - 41
"Don't think first about the risks of speaking up. Think first about the risks of not speaking up." ~ Kerry Patterson
Posts: 6059 | Registered: Jul 2009 | From: So Cal..... |
sparklezombie
♀ 40095
Member # 40095 | | Posted: 1:56 PM, August 12th (Monday), 2013 | |
And I though it was just cause I was getting old lol. Those pesky doors!
BS: Me
WH: Husband
One daughter - 22 months
Married 11.5 years
2.5 false R's.
Status: Divorcing.
You can't pick up a turd by the clean end. Time to flush the toilet.
Posts: 253 | Registered: Jul 2013 | From: Somewhere on the Eastern Seaboard |
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