Doorway effect
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Doorway effect
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#2I've had to introduce this to my friends at work. Where I sit, I can't have my phone with me. So sometimes it'll take me four tries to leave the room, grab my phone, and actually remember to do the thing that I meant to do. Usually I get back to my desk after doomscrolling for a few minutes and remember.
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#3I clicked to add a comment, but as soon as the page changed I forgot what I was going to write ...
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Seriously though, happens to me all the time. Not sure if just getting dotty. The connection between spatial presence and memory is an interesting one; see also Memory Palaces[1]
It makes me wonder if it's different for people totally blind since birth. Is the visual aspect important, or just the "spacial-ness"?
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#4This is extremely amplified when taking psychedelics
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#5Opening a new browser tab and forgetting what I was going to do in that tab is a very frequent phenomenon for me.
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#6Related. Others?
Why Walking Through a Doorway Makes You Forget (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17921972 - Sept 2018 (5 comments)
The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17328740 - June 2018 (130 comments)
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#7This seems sort of intuitive to me so I’m inclined to believe it, but at this point can we really believe any of these sort of pop-behavioral studies with interesting quirky effects?
It seems like the entire field is so overwhelmed with fake data and bullshit that it’s hard to separate anything that might actually be real.
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#8Opening a new browser tab and forgetting what I was going to do in that tab is a very frequent phenomenon for me.
I have a pad of honest to g-d paper next to my keyboard for this exact reason.
Goal for the day: log into a server.
Why is that so complicated? hahahahahaha welcome to the corporation.
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#9This seems sort of intuitive to me so I’m inclined to believe it, but at this point can we really believe any of these sort of pop-behavioral studies with interesting quirky effects? It seems like the entire field is so overwhelmed with fake data and bullshit that it’s hard to separate anything that might actually be real.
This is a weird comment. The Wikipedia article has a comprehensive list of sources underneath, and the comments on this post are full of people saying "this exact thing happens to me".
So I'm going to say, yes, we can believe it.
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#10This is extremely amplified when taking psychedelics
Yeah, I've walked from my living room to the back yard on mushrooms, and the change in mindset was like I'd flown to another continent.