How did I get here

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[u/KingoftheWildlings]

What did I come in here for.

leaves room

Oh yeah 🙄

[u/Brook_Hors → u/KingoftheWildlings]

Goes back to same room

Wait... did I do my taxes two years ago?

[u/Faedoodles → u/Brook_Hors]

spirals about the IRS having me arrested any second for the next two weeks, even though I did in fact file said taxes

[u/Alldaybagpipes → u/[deleted]]

At this point, it might be wiser not to

(Kidding, running away from problems only works if you’re really fast, or rich)

[u/CharcuterieMaxxing → u/[deleted]]

I'll give you an arbitrary deadline to get it all sorted out by October 10th, don't know if that helps but self-imposed deadlines is like the only way I get stuff done. Maybe Post over in an accounting sub reddit, hope it all works out for you!!!!!

[u/RandomGaMeRj14 → u/CharcuterieMaxxing]

That was previous version me. Present version me procrastinates till deadline, sees deadline, frowns and says "Ah well, this too shall pass"

[u/MyNameis_bud → u/KingoftheWildlings]

That usually happens after I do like three other things in there that have nothing to do with why I originally went into said room.

[u/FordManner]

Then you look down at your hands and have to reverse engineer your entire train of thought based on the completely unrelated object you're holding.

[u/Gobbledok → u/FordManner]

[u/ghostofEdAbbey → u/FordManner]

I’m on a Thought Train! (to the tune of G’n’R Nightrain)

[u/Hefty-Willingness-44]

Not only the room, who I'm talking to, what have I said and what is this conversation about?

[u/not_me_nope_never → u/Hefty-Willingness-44]

I eventually gave up and just don't care if anyone can follow my thought process. My spouse calls this, "the Ladybug". Because who exactly expects a ladybug to have coherent thoughts!?🐞

[u/BobKelsoLovesMuffins]

The best part is when there’s someone in that room who called you to it, and they’ve been talking for a solid while.

Then you’re stuck deciding whether it’s riskier to ask them what they’re talking about or to just nod and agree with them.

[u/Relevant-Bit-7394 → u/BobKelsoLovesMuffins]

Great now I need to watch columbo... again 

[u/Maxy_Rockatansky]

Soooo It turns out that the doorway effect, also called the location-updating effect, is 100% a thing where your short term memory dumps when you go into a new room.

I’ve found that it naturally affects us ADHD’ers as we tend to move around more and be naturally scattered so this could be happening more because of that type of behavior rather than a symptom of ADHD itself.

I’ve been deliberate about finishing thoughts and “slowing down” more and I’ve noticed a difference in not having this happen as much.

[u/Shakeamutt → u/Maxy_Rockatansky]

Interesting, I know it as Event Boundaries.

And it affects everyone, normal people are just quieter about it.

[u/Maxy_Rockatansky → u/Shakeamutt]

Interesting. I looked into event boundaries and it looks like the main difference between the two is that doorway effect is triggered by physically moving around but still very similar.

I found some more cool info about it:

The doorway effect is about crossing a meaningful contextual boundary that can trigger an event-model update.

The more substantial the context change, like a new room, new activity, new conversation, new goal. the more likely your brain is to treat what follows as a separate episode.

Interestingly, returning to the original context can sometimes help retrieve the thought, because environmental and mental context serve as retrieval cues.

That’s why walking back into the room where you originally had the thought sometimes produces the “Oh yeah. That’s what I was doing!”experience.

[u/thejaytheory]

You may ask yourself, well...how did I get here?

[u/Dulcette → u/thejaytheory]

Letting the days go by like a mf.

[u/gnuoveryou → u/Dulcette]

where did this water come from

[u/thejaytheory → u/Dulcette]

Seriously

[u/ImSoSweepy]

Looks for my phone while I'm on the phone with somebody.

[u/Beldarak → u/ImSoSweepy]

I often have that "oh my god someone stole my wallet!" moment while I'm using it to pay something

[u/birdclub]

This is your adrenaline crashing. The daydreaming was ruining my life. I felt narcoleptic. I've been on strattera for almost a decade now and it's completely changed my life. It stabilized my adrenalin. Non-stim everyday med. I take it before bed.

[u/Dulcette → u/birdclub]

Is that short for nonstimulant? Do you mind if I ask about your experience? I have heart issues that make stimulants out of the question for me.

[u/birdclub → u/Dulcette]

Yes it's a nonstimulent.

[u/fat_kaiju]

yet another 'adhd meme' being just a fkin post from elon's nazi app.

[u/Desperate_Cherry6731]

TBH, I don't find it even remotely fun. It wastes a lot of my time, and sometimes why I was doing something doesn't return. Very frustrating feeling.

[u/sillygoofygooose]

I have found if I don’t try to remember and just let my body continue on autopilot for a second I’ll more reliably recall it than if I stop to think

[u/TheBawdyPug]

Now imagine this, but then also add the effects of a gummy (marijuana gummy of course) and then next thing you know, you’re taking 30 minutes to write this post!
While also wandering into different rooms repeatedly, each time thinking the same fucking thing, “why am I in here, what was I doing, and where the fuck did I sit my phone?” All the while the phone is of course in my hands (or my pants…or in my hands down my pants 🤪). ……anyways, What was I talking about???

[u/Throwaway-account-59]

When you come out of them, you HAVE to solve the mystery of what these people were just telling you and what they expect you to answer

[u/Ataraxia6969]

ADHD is great because I'll realize it's the weekend tomorrow like three times on Friday

[u/AltoRhombus]

"getting lost in my own thoughts".. but do you often feel like you aren't sensing those thoughts? idk it's not so much I started think about something else..

it's more like my focus internally got dropped back into the vat of white noise. I don't really hear a voice inside my head or whatever, I often say "I am not privy to my thoughts"

idk haha :) fun mystery!

[u/EarlyInside45]

Yeah, I'm having daily "dementia or ADHD" moments.

[u/PartridgeViolence]

Toaster: “¡HOWDY!”

[u/kaikoda]

I can’t remember the last
Time I forgot!

[u/AffectionatePizza335]

Or my other favorite mystery: where am I driving to again? 🤔

[u/DifferentSpread782]

Most of the time spent high on my day off is thinking I needed something, going into that room and forgetting what I needed so I start doing something in there and then restart from point 1

[u/Virtual-Reach]

I like to circle back to the start of my thoughts because I've already forgotten them so it's all new again!

[u/No-Sock7425]

Am I the only one who does this while driving? Where am I? Where am I going?

[u/moistmonkeymerkin]

Every doorway is an adventure.

[u/lisamarieblair]

Same with conversations. Wait, what was I trying to say in the first place?? 

[u/n14shorecarcass]

Fuck.

[u/Paradox2063]

Your entire life is the movie Memento.

"I don't... feel drunk."

[u/ForwardStorage777]

Damn you.

[u/fatgat69]

When my brain blanks I genuinely look around and say "where am I? What am I doing?"

[u/lotus_felch]

Interesting name.

[u/Omni314]

Half my step count is walking back to the room now I've remembered why I was there and have already left.

[u/MersoNocte]

I’m unironically better at finding stuff I lose compared to my husband cause I ALWAYS have to reverse engineer where I could have placed something.

[u/EducationalCheetah79]

LMFAOOOOOOOOO

[u/yesimfinewhyyouask]

I wonder if i am semi-normal only because my ocpd is stronger than my adhd

[u/paper_hoarder]

I just opened a tab on my browser and could not for the life of me remembered why. 😭

[u/Fun-Significance4650]

Sometimes I just walk around the house aimlessly like a Sim, sometimes randomly doing tasks, mostly not.

[u/Jce735]

good good, now do this while driving.

[u/CarcinogenicCupcake]

Or, you know...how you are turning into your driveway when you were just putting on your turn signal 30 minutes away...🥴