I Blame It On The Doors

It is all The Doors fault! No, not the music group—although, in some crazy way I could see Jim Morrison trying to take credit for this. In fact, according to an answer on Yahoo Answers about how The Doors got their name, "Jim Morrison read poet William Blake who said 'if the doors of perception are cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite.' He was also influenced by author Aldous Huxley who referred to the same line when he titled his book on drug experimentation The Doors of Perception. 'There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.'"

I could see the Late Morrison taking credit for a phenomenon known to virtually all of us.

What is "this?"

Being forgetful.

I know, it sounds like I have lost my mind, right? But allow me to elaborate.

Have you ever walked from one room to another room and completely forgot why you went to the other room?

Yes, I have, too. I do it all the time. I have to write lists of things, so I can remember!

Honestly, I was a little scared at first, because I thought maybe I was getting dementia or Alzheimer's (even before we really knew what those things were), but it turns out, our brain is doing its job when we forget something from one room to the next. It has to do with doors and doorways.

Our brains like to break things up into segments to record them as memories. According to research, walking through a doorway causes what has been dubbed the Event Horizon Model or the location updating effect.

According to this research, this also happens when we walk through an imaginary doorway.

Our brains have entered a "new space" so they are working on the information for the new space, not the one we were in previously (the location updating effect).

I merely typed in the phrase—doorways cause forgetting—to get the results and a whole first page of Google ranked articles with this information.

I'm not listing all the results and intricacies of the research simple because, mentally, I walked through a doorway and something else has "lit my fire." So I'm off, because "people are strange" and I am just a "rider on the storm."

Let's end on a note of levity, shall we?

An old man asks his wife a question one day. He asks her if she believes in the hereafter?

She says, "Of course. I always find myself in a room wondering what I am here after?"

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Best wishes,
Karin :)