Why do people sometimes forget what they came into a room to get or do, but remember it a couple of hours later completely unprompted?
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I agree with the threshold / doorway effect, but I see it happening to 70+ year old me as this process:
Wife says “Go get x for me from the kitchen”
I think to myself “Grrr I’ve got to get out of my recliner, walk in there, look blankly at the counter…”
And in doing that I have lost the memory of “x” completely.
Yes, it is embarrassing to have to ask her what she sent me in there after.
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