This started my morning with a laugh

[Siwsan]

[2naSalit]

1. Yup...

Happens every day! Whatever it was that made sense ten feet ago...

Might come back in a minute, an hour or never.

[3catwoman3]

8. See my post #7.

There's an interesting and reassuring reason for this.

[LoisB]

2. I can personally verify this as a fact.

[irisblue]

3. This is my truth

[Rhiannon12866]

4. LOL! I'm also a member of that club!

[Prairie_Seagull]

5. Count me in. Oh so true.

This is the way to start a DU session.

Set my coffee down somewhere. haha

[AllaN01Bear]

6. brain cramp. brain fart.

i knew a guy who could tell u every detail of the american civil war and not remember when he took his meds . now passed over the rainbow bridge.

[3catwoman3]

7. There's actually a name for this, and it's not Alzheimer's - event boundary.

Basically, when we relocate, our brains prepare for the next experience by forgetting the previous one. I was so relieved when I learned about this a few years ago, as I was beginning to worry about myself. I'd be in the kitchen and think of something I needed from upstairs, and by the time I'd get upstairs, I'd have no damn idea why I was there.

https://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/21/the-boundary-effect-entering-a-new-room-makes-you-forget-things/

[whathehell]

10. 'Event boundary'..Thank you!

Glad to hear about this..I was identifying a bit too much with the OP.

[ShazzieB]

11. Interesting!

That would probably explain why going back to the room I started from tends to make the memory resurface!

It kind of feels like I left the memory behind in that other room, and when I return - "Oh, there it is!"

Then I walk back to the kitchen (or whatever the intended destination was), mentally repeating why I'm going there so I don't forget again.

This could also explain the "Where the hell did I park that damned car?" phenomenon.

[KS Toronado]

9. Been there done that!