Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)

Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016) by em-bee on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:55PM (#21561770)

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

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Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016) by perl4ever on Sunday November 17, 2019 @11:09PM (#21561817)

"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.

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Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016) by em-bee on Monday November 18, 2019 @01:52AM (#21562415)

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.

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Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016) by perl4ever on Monday November 18, 2019 @09:54PM (#21570313)

Ah. But for me, there is only me and the keyboard. And different kinds of keyboards may not have anything in common.

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Re:Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016) by em-bee on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:29PM (#21570646)

pretty much the same thing :-)

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