Post #2549037 · Elektrine

@scy@chaos.social Don't worry. It happens to everyone. If it happens to you and there are witnesses, just say hello and wave goodbye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNv3AXUU4nM

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@TeflonTrout@beige.party 2026-05-15 02:59

@scy@chaos.social And I ran I ran back to the room I just left to see if that jogs my memory

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@farbel@mas.to 2026-05-15 03:04

@scy@chaos.social Priorities.

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@V@tabletop.social 2026-05-15 03:18

@scy@chaos.social to be fair, your brain stores memories in chapters it differentiates with "thresholds", so it's actually very normal to forget everything when you walk through a door - stuff before that room was literally just archived away

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@Mikal@sfba.social 2026-05-15 04:13

@scy@chaos.social And let's not even mention the lyrics to the Gilligan's Island theme song.

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@Rhube@wandering.shop 2026-05-15 04:24

@scy@chaos.social sucks to steal stuff to add alt text. Be less ableist and less of a thief.

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@GuineaPig@mamot.fr 2026-05-15 06:23

@scy@chaos.social How I can so much relate...

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@matildalove@wetdry.world 2026-05-15 19:58

@scy@chaos.social "liberated for alt text"

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@Longspeak@chirp.enworld.org 2026-05-15 22:28

@scy@chaos.social This. At least I'm not alone.

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@montef@mastodon.social 2026-05-16 01:29

@scy@chaos.social @gedeonm@mastodon.social So much the same! My defective brain has the added…..feature…..of having random lyrics from those songs stuck in my head on repeat. It’s making me avoid listening to music more and more.

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@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net 2026-05-16 12:41

@scy@chaos.social There's a very interesting reason this happens that's colloquially known as the "doorway effect." Very basically, your mind discards most of your short term memory when you leave a room unless you're actively thinking about it or have some other means of reconnecting to those memories (like holding an object related to the reason you're in a new room). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_perception https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/

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@vnikolov@ieji.de 2026-06-02 18:22

These two worlds meet. There is a song by Pink Floyd that starts with "I was in the kitchen." It is not from the 80s, though. It is from the early 70s (from Meddle, I think, ca. 1971). And I only remember one more line: "Seamus, that's the dog, was outside." *** The song is the same in the relative way But you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. (I omit the quotes, because I changed one word. The sun remains the same...) My 2e-2. @scy@chaos.social

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