Whenever I walked into a new room, sometimes I forget what I’m going to do. This also happens with me when I open a new tab in Chrome. Does anyone know why?
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When your brain is doing a specific task, sometimes it gets caught up in the smaller tasks it has to do to get there and accidentally erases the original task while in “Complete!” mode.
It has something to do with short-term memory transitioning into long-term memory, where there’s apparently some kind of blind spot between the two that makes it hard to functionally recall the idea in your mind until much later.
It also has something to do with the brain taking in a new environment. Every time you walk into a room, your brain has to take a moment to process your surroundings and recall the information about said room. Sometimes, this is so powerful of an instinct that it erases the task it had in memory in order to recall the other memory about the environment, but it happens so fast that we just blank out. Since surfing the web is a similar process as exploring terrain, this problem sometimes overlaps with our internet habits.
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