Pickles by Brian Crane for April 10, 2022

Been there done that. More times than i can count.

Simply turn around, leave the room and the reason will pop into your mind. Or start doing something else and you will remember.

darn… double but individual senior moment

It turns out that about 20% of the time, walking back through the door works instantly. Then another 33% or so, I remember it by tracing my steps backward to where I decided to (get/do) something. And another 33% of the time, whatever it was is real, so it rears up again pretty quickly. The remaining 15% or so falls off the edge. This is actually a way to be efficient: Don’t do it unless you remember why…

Multitasking fails

Did I already read this one?

Was there a First Clue? i.e., was it the bathroom you walked into?

Looks like purple curtains make people forget.

Now what did I get onto my computer for…

The doorway of forgetfulness keeps multiplying in my house. The only one that hasn’t become one is the bathroom doorway.

CRS …. Strikes Again !

In the kitchen I’m always there for the beer.

It’s contagious

The Room of Forgetfulness

They say when folks are married long enough they start to behave the same!

A similar thing can happen going down the stairs or going out to the garage.

Ready for the #standinginthedoornotknowingwhy group ?

Straight out of Harry Potter, the doorway of forgetfulness!

AAaaaaaagh!

Research on the phenomenon of doorways seeming to trigger forgetfulness traces it back to human behavior in caveman days. Don’t know if it’s valid, but it’s interesting.

A perfectly elastic collision.

They’ve done experiments and found walking through a door puts us in a new context. It jars our thought processes just enough to measurably lower short term memory.

When that happens to me, I head for the refrigerator

That’s nothing. One time I was putting my tools away before I left work and I couldn’t find my 6”long 1/2” drive extension. I went through each drawer in my tool box twice looking for it. Then my head itched so I went to scratch it and hit my head with the extension. I was holding it in my hand the entire time……..

Happens to all of us one time or another….LOL

That’s it! The doorway! Now I finally understand why I forget what I got up to do… the doorway. Now, to figure out how to fix my doorway so it doesn’t do that to me anymore. Uh, do what? I forgotted!

My world…

When you get older, you start to think about the hereafter. You walk into a room and think “What was I here after?”

This senior moment brought to you by… ummm. it’s on the tip of my tongue. No, really, I’ll remember it in a minute.

Well.. it was not their glasses!

That room robs memories, an exorcism might fix it

Love all of the above. Oh, yes it is real, the explanations are great and have made me feel better. It is not me, it is ingrained in all of us.

I’ve always wondered…why does Opal wear the same dress or blouse almost every day?

deja vous all over again

Recursive amnesia

If you are like me, you don’t have to read it, you live it.

Wait… did I live this one ?

Maybe the Pickles are in the early stages of dementia.

Bill Cosby did a comedy routine about getting older and forgetting. He said his brains when to his rear because as soon as he sat down to ponder what it was he had forgotten he remembered and as soon as he got up and went to go to where ever he was going, he would forget again. It was hysterical. I was a kid when he did this and boy do I understand NOW.

Done that far more often than I like to admit, even to myself

A doorway is a liminal (transitional) space – so thoughts in our head may leave as we go through it. That’s why going back to the place where we came up with the thought often helps.

I usually have the problem when I am well into the room. At least I think so – I will be now trying to keep thoughts going when I go through a doorway. Maybe that’s the trick!

The answers come to me the next day.

It’s ridiculous to FOCUS on seniors for doing this, people of ALL ages do that. My memory isn’t that bad…I remember doing this even in my 20s. And, yes, going back to the exact place when you thought of it seems to revive the memory. Something about the visuals gets the synapses back to that place in the brain where the task evolved.

It still works that way for me at nearly 65.

It’s a proven fact that all doorways are inhabited by little gremlins who magically suck out of your brain the reason for going into a room. The magical incantation of the name of the thing I’m going after (ex. “blue sweater, blue sweater, blue sweater…”) all the way down the hall & into the room usually works to fight them off. Not always, but usually…

Makes me happy when the younger people at work do this. Proves it’s not my age to blame, just busy, busy, busy.-

I’ve come close to that senior moment and I am a senior so I have my moments.

This is me and my wife, too funny

This is my life now. … I don’t love it.