The purpose is clear right up to the threshold, then it is simply gone. You stand among the clues, scan the room and sometimes have to walk back to where the thought began before it returns.
- reaching the kitchen and standing there until you remember you wanted scissors
- going upstairs for one specific thing and returning with something unrelated
- opening a cupboard and forgetting what you meant to take out
- walking back to the sofa in the hope that the missing thought comes with you
Looks vs reality
The same Experience can look very different from the outside than it feels on the inside.
Just being forgetful or daydreaming.
My brain's operating system just crashed and is trying to reboot.
Not paying attention to what they were doing.
The mental file folder for 'My Current Task' was just deleted without warning.
Having a 'senior moment.'
My brain is buffering, trying to reload a command that has vanished from the queue.
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