Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)
by egypturnash on Sunday November 17, 2019 @11:34PM
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This wouldn’t work for a whole script but I found a hack for forgetting what you were leaving one room to do: say “I’m gonna put out the trash” as you start walking through the door. You forget what you were doing but the concept of putting out the trash is working its way through the slower pipeline of becoming a series of vibrations generated by your lungs, throat, and mouth, and you will parse what you just said and remember what you are doing.
Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)
by Aearnus on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:29AM
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For memorizing lines? Chew a piece of gum. I've found that it takes the emphasis away from my location in my mind and places some emphasis and connection with the feeling of chewing gum. For extra points, alternate different flavors for different sets of things to memorize.
Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)
by billman on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:34AM
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Some classical techniques for memory involve creating your own mental spaces for memorising things.
Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)
by em-bee on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:55PM
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something that helps is to block out as much external stimuli as possible. for example, when memorizing a pin, i focus on the grid of numbers. for a password, i focus on my computer, or something abstract related to the service i am signing on to.
i have the benefit of traveling a lot, so my computer becomes an always available item of focus, whereas the surroundings turn into a blur because they always change
Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)
by perl4ever on Sunday November 17, 2019 @11:09PM
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"for a password, i focus on my computer"
I'm not sure what that means. When I have a password that is completely random, but well memorized and I typically use it on a desktop or laptop keyboard, I tend to find it impossible at first to enter it on a phone, because it seems to be essentially all in muscle memory that isn't applicable to typing on the phone.
Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)
by em-bee on Monday November 18, 2019 @01:52AM
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it means i ignore the room i am in. i pretend the room does not exist. there is only me and a laptop.
that way, i get the same feeling of the situation no matter where i actually am.
Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)
by perl4ever on Monday November 18, 2019 @09:54PM
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Ah. But for me, there is only me and the keyboard. And different kinds of keyboards may not have anything in common.
Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)
by em-bee on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:29PM
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pretty much the same thing :-)
Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)
by jdc on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:51PM
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Maybe try keeping something fragrant nearby your desk or wherever you would reinforce the memories.
Then you can bring it with you when you need to remember.
I'm (involuntarily) great at remembering passwords when I'm at my desk at home, or a PIN when paying for petrol, but at other times in the "wrong" context, I'm totally blank. I read something a while back about methods for subconscious recollection based on an individuals location / state of mind context.
Just now, I forcefully remembered a password by picturing myself at my desk at home. But now maybe I've re-contextualized the memory and I'll struggle to recall it when I actually need it.