Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows

University of Notre Dame ^ | November 18, 2011

[NoGrayZone]

Ever look around frantically for the glasses or sunglasses (that are sitting on top of your head)???

BTW, sunglasses make great headbands. They seem to set your hair perfectly for some reason.

[outofsalt]

I’m an optimist. I prefer to think of it as an event horizon!

[adorno]

Does that mean that you forget everything if you stand in the doorway?

And, wouldn’t it be bad to suggest to people that they stand/sit under a doorway during a hurricane?

[grey_whiskers]

But Rick Perry hadn't walked through any doorways on stage during that debate. Oops. /hijack>

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Great! Now apply your theory to the head on a good beer, and realize that people drink to forget. :-)

Any links? Can't think of any keyword which would zoom in on this concept uniquely.

Cheers!

[kruss3]

We can already measure loss of cognition in fat nine year old children. Their diabetic brains shrink 10-12% from glucose deprivation. “Senior” moments as described in this
article are more properly identified as early onset Alzheimer’s.

[grey_whiskers]

...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.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

He must've been stuck in a revolving door!

Cheers!

[little jeremiah]

Years ago I was trying to think of an unusual use of a word I’d read in a book by Robert Louis Stevenson. I finally remembered it while driving a rural road near my house.

From then on, every time I rounded that curve, I remember the word. In fact, even now, trying to remember the word, I rounded the curve in my mind’s eye.

It was the word “policy” meaning the hero’s landed estate.

[Moltke]

It’s a diffraction effect.

Given the width of the doorway, your weight, and how fast you are walking through the doorway, I can calculate your de Broglie wavelength. The shorter that is, the more you forget.

[SunkenCiv]

I can’t remember why I entered this topic.

[giotto]

sounds like a good argument for one-room houses

And an even better argument for de-bureaucratizing government.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Probably due to the stress on the brain caused by trying to solve Zeno’s paradox in which doorways play a significant role.

I thought Zeno’s paradox was based on the flight of an arrow toward a target...

In any event, I prefer Lucian the skeptic. He decided that life was an illusion and you should always do what you enjoyed most. He spent the rest of his life at the Roman baths. I gather he looked like a prune when he finally passed.

Regards,
GtG

[Erasmus]

It happens to me frequently. But, the only time it really bothers me is when I walk into the bathroom.

Hey, it's worse when you walk out of the bathroom and you can't remember why you'd gone in there in the first place.

[Erasmus]

I once accidentally walked through a screen door. I was badly strained.

[Erasmus]

Will backing up in reverse through the doorway bring back the memory?

Yes. It's like a barcode.

[Erasmus]

And whatever you do, don’t weave back and forth repeatedly through the doorway. You’ll be increasing global entropy, and because of the hysteresis effect, you may overheat your brain.

[visualops]

Brings some plausibility to what GhostHunters call “residual haunting”.

[Revolting cat!]

[dalereed]

Don’t have to worry bout why the lasr 2 or 3 generations are stupid, this “educator” naild it!

[neverdem]

Thanks decimon