Forgot Something? It’s The Doorway!

Has this ever happened to you?  You are thinking of something and need to act on it.  Maybe you're sitting down, so you get up, walk out of your office or room, and head toward whatever it is you have to do.  You walk a bit and stop.  You can't remember why you're walking or what you wanted to do.  If you're like me, you go back to where you began in desperate hope it will come to you because I'm convinced I'm becoming slightly insane, getting old, or I've been inhabited by an alien.

Good news!  It’s not just you, and you're not losing you mind, it’s just being compartmentalized.

University of Notre Dame studied this phenomenon, because they didn't have anything better to do, and found that it happens to everybody.  And, you know what it is?  It's because we walked through a door.

Gabriel Radvansky was the researcher on this, and said  “Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away.”

This means that we're normal afterall.  Radvansky said it is a normal function of your brain, it compartmentalized your thoughts.  He calls it an "event boundary."

I feel soooo much better.  Pass the wine!