The lost reason to go to a room thing is very very common. You are lucky if you have evaded it before now. The thing is, you start by deciding to walk somewhere in your residence. But you know the way so well that you don't have to think about walking, you mind has virtual subroutines to get you around your house. The subroutine gets you from point A to point B, while your mind is free to think about something else. If that something else uses short term memory, the reason for your walk can get erased.
I lose things all the time because I'll have them in my hand, and I'll need to set them down to use my hand for something else. I believe at that point my mind calls an unconscious subroutine, that I've named 'empty a hand.' It's a dumb routine, it knows nothing about the thing in my hand, or the places it can go, except the most basic physical facts. So it is very likely to put things in odd places I would not consciously choose. Then as it terminates, like any well-designed subroutine, it neatly erases all memory traces of it's activities!
Last edited by donquixote99; 04-02-2022 at 03:59 PM.
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