So I read an article that explains why it is when we walk into another room to get something, we forget what it is we came to fetch. I always blame it on the wranglers, after all they are highly distracting creatures. It’s their goal in life to dismantle my brain piece by piece.
“Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,” said lead researcher Gabriel Radvansky, a psychologist at the University of Notre Dame.”
http://www.livescience.com/17132-forget-walked-room-doorways-blame-study-finds.html
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| “Now where and when, and why am supposed to pick up the kids?” |
I like that article, I like the idea of compartmentalizing things. I forget stuff all the time, like what’s in the microwave. I’m so glad that it beeps at me constantly and tells me, “Your food is ready!” Forgetting things makes me feel old. Grasping for words and having “senior moments” is not my idea of a good time. Watching Jason Aldean in his Wrangler Retro jean commercial is good. Going to see a Keith Urban concert over the summer, solo, is “a good thing.” Forgetting that your kids are coming home early on Wednesday is not a good thing!
So do we knock out all the doorways in our homes to improve our memory? Do I have to live in one of those dome houses, without rooms or doorways? Can I live there by myself? That would be OK, me and the canines, what are their names again? I might start to like this doorless way of living, especially if it means I’m able to remember important things like, the good Vodka is in aisle 10 at the grocery store, and where I parked that hunkin’ minivan.
I’m just relieved to know there is a logical explanation to all this mind warble. I was beginning to think I was losing it!
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| My brain with its tidy compartments before I became a parent! |
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