This is an incredible wtf article. It’s so absurd it has to be real, I don’t know how it could be made up.

One data point, I’ve been affected by this for decades now. I had no idea before the article that others experienced it too.

Well that's interesting, i was in a paper shop this afternoon (i love paper shops), and i suddenly wanted to go to the bathroom and realized it happens often there!

Wow, that's wild. Certain rooms do that to me. In the house where I grew up it was the upstairs room. (It wasn't the stairs themselves; no other stairs in the house did it) In our current home it's the basement. Sadly those rooms are not filled with books.

I can't tell if it's a statistically real effect. I had always told myself it was not real, but having heard of "Marikio Aoki" phenomenon for the first time just now, I'm wondering...

I have a workshop that I credit with the same effect. Every trip to the workshop is at least two trips, because I'm interrupted.

Also I associate this with gambling, no matter the stakes or the location, including locations that don't trigger any response in different contexts (like my living room).

Glad to know I'm not completely alone....

OMG. I have crohn's disease and walking into a library gives me the urge to go, consistently.

Ditto. Libraries and bookstores can be an issue.