so why doesn't you forget where you are going when you get into a car???
Posted on 11/19/2011 6:43:57 AM PST by decimon
We've all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.
New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor Gabriel Radvansky suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses. "Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an 'event boundary' in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away," Radvansky explains.
"Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized."
The study was published recently in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
Zeno was also known by his other name “Old Pee-Pee Toga”. He always stood outside the bathroom trying to figure out if he was half-way there until he wet himself.
so why doesn't you forget where you are going when you get into a car???
It may be far more significant than that. There is an odd “bubble theory”, that reality itself is somewhat like “foam”, with countless energetic bubbles packed together, which compartmentalizes energy, space and time.
Both organization and awareness use such bubbles for a multitude of purposes, with each bubble representing a unique microcosm of and for what is inside it. So moving between bubbles presents a challenge of perceiving both a different microcosm, and maintaining continuity between microcosms.
A dramatic example is the difference between being out of a pool of water and being underwater. Dramatic because the microcosms of the two are very different than say, one room in a building, and another room.
Importantly, awareness is interactive with whatever bubble it is in. To a great extent, your “personal space” becomes a bubble within the environment of the “bubble of this place”.
It’s interesting to ponder.
I’m glad I’m not alone.
It’s true. When I get thrown out of a bar, I can’t remember why. Although the “event boundary” may be hitting the pavement outside, not flying through the doorway.
The problem is you are walking through the refrigerator's doorway. Not only forgetting why you did this, but leaving footprints on the food inside. Stop it!
(NOTE: When you back out of your refrigerator you are also going through the same doorway. That is why you can't remember doing it at all.)
That’s a neat site, Thanks!
Conversely, re-creating the context (the setting) where you ‘thought of the thing you just forget’
aids recall.
iow, I find myself returning to places a lot more frequently lately...
Does it matter if yoiu want through frontwards versus backwards? What a waste of time, effort, and money.
No, it’s because Zuul is in his refrigerator. It’s the only thing that really affects a major appliance.
I now forget why I clicked on this thread . . . .
Age-activated attention deficit disorder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oHBG3ABUJU
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
” so why doesn’t you forget where you are going when you get into a car??? “
Or where you intended to go when you get off an elevator?
When Germany was reunified in 1989, there was much talk among Europeans of a Fourth Reich since the Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, was an insomniac just like Hitler who was said to formulate his invasion plans in the middle of the night.
Herr Kohl who was rather overweight reassured his European neighbors that the only thing he was interested in invading whenever he woke up at night was his refrigerator.
The problem isn't in remembering where you are going but why once you get there.
Thus if you are in a room, your body`s natural electrical activity pattern is in an ``envelope``of the charge of that room-
If you leave the room and go into another room, you acquire the charge of that room on top of your body`s natural electrical activity pattern. This may also explain why you do not forget in a car because the car has rubber tires and is insulated from the earth ``ground plane charge.`` Also most houses have gypsum-based walls plaster, thus lending the room to ``remember`` the charge of the people in the room.
We use this as a basis for biometrics to determine if a person actually lives in a house because the charge for a person not living in the house is higher than that for someone living in the house. ``
Yup. NASA already did this research in order to predict probabilities of lightning strikes on buildings on the Cape. Even if you have a barn with a lightning arrestor, the barn still has a charge on it. The NASA research is a stack of documents 7 feet tall. hahaha
https://sites.google.com/site/wmolivadoti/
LOL... who am i and where am i going???
I ok when I walk through doorways, it is when I try to walk through doors is the problem.
...and this in only one day:.....FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES: In the portions of President Clinton’s Jan. 17 deposition that have been made public in the Paula Jones case, his memory failed him 267 times.
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