So we're NOT losing our minds??!

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<p>[Walking</a> through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows](<a href=“http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/uond-wtd111811.php]Walking”>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/uond-wtd111811.php)</p>

<p>"Radvansky found that the subjects forgot more after walking through a doorway compared to moving the same distance across a room, suggesting that the doorway or ‘event boundary’ impedes one’s ability to retrieve thoughts or decisions made in a different room. "</p>

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<p>Maybe I should move into an open-floor-plan home, then…</p>

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<p>ok… what?</p>

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<p>LOL. Guess we all need to live under tarps outside!</p>

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<p>Yeah but what’s my excuse when I haven’t just walked through a doorway?</p>

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<p>Well, that it explains it, lol. No more doorways for me!</p>

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<p>Ohhhh, I feel better now. :)</p>

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<p>I usually forget why I went to the kitchen, but I nearly always find an answer.</p>

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<p>Darn, I have an open plan living/dining/kitchen. I hope someone comes up with another excuse besides aging quickly!</p>

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<p>Staircases! I’m always going up or down and then forgetting why. It’s great exercise though - no need to go the gym. :)</p>

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<p>Was this the result of a goverment research grant? I must have lost my mind to support it.</p>

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<p>I think this research has some merit, particularly if the doorway has a door attached and the door strikes you on the head…</p>

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<p>you know, i swear this happened to me at work today. i had 2 points to make to a co-worker. i got the first point out as i entered her office. then completely lost the second point once i was in her office. haha.</p>

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<p>Zone!!!*</p>

<p>*MMORPG reference. You enter a new zone; all your monsters fall away from the prior experience and you are onto a new adventure.</p>

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<p>Y’know, didn’t Rick Perry & Herman Cain walk through a doorway to get on stage for one of those last debates? Could it be a vast left-wing conspiracy? Or a vast right-wing conspiracy? I forget which one since I walked into the room.</p>

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<p>The worst is going through the eye of a needle. Sew hard to remember…as a good Aussie friend put it.</p>