# Door Memory-Field Theory **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148 "2015-04-20T23:00:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148/1 "2015-04-20T23:00:30Z")
My mother was telling me [about this](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/) just the other day. Doors are apparently evil by nature, they have a powerful spirit-field that wipes your memory when you pass through them. As in, “_What did I come in here for, again?_” The researchers have studied this and determined that the effect is real, but they only say, “eh, it’s how the brain works”; we need to get the metaphysicists (and _feng shui_ experts) right on this, to figure out why these poltergeists like to occupy doorframes, so that we can placate, neutralize or exterminate them, once and for all. Or we could just redesign our living and working spaces in the classical Japanese style, with sliding wall in place of doors. And cars without doors, too. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148/2 "2015-04-20T23:14:05Z")
Interesting idea. It needs considerable replication before the “door effect” is of equal veracity to the “theory of gravitation.” My prediction is it will be forgotten about in five years, except for hard-core woo-meisters. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148/3 "2015-04-20T23:17:43Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > My prediction is it will be forgotten about in five years … We will all walk through too many doors over the next five years, they will earnestly wipe it from our memories. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148/4 "2015-04-20T23:29:48Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > My prediction is it will be forgotten about in five years, except for hard-core woo-meisters. Of course it will be forgotten. The scientists have to go through the door to get to the lab. ---
**Author:** ![mind\_the\_gap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@mind\_the\_gap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mind_the_gap)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148/5 "2015-04-21T14:04:12Z")
I read the answer in a book I’m reading. It’s in the next room, I’ll go and get it and be right back… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148/6 "2015-04-21T14:40:04Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Interesting idea. It needs considerable replication before the “door effect” is of equal veracity to the “theory of gravitation.” > > My prediction is it will be forgotten about in five years, except for hard-core woo-meisters. > [@eschereal](#): > > We will all walk through too many doors over the next five years, they will earnestly wipe it from our memories. Your prediction will equally be forgotten by the same process, ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148/7 "2015-04-21T14:42:52Z")
But do we know it’s the door itself? Maybe it’s the frame. Maybe it’s because it’s a gap in a wall. I don’t recall hearing that the Japanese, with their hoity toity sliding doors, have better memories than the rest of the world. Of course, maybe I _did_ hear it but have forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148/8 "2015-04-21T18:25:21Z")
It is not sliding doors, it is sliding walls, where you can sit lotus in a room, someone else slides the walls around, and you are now in a functionally different room without having moved anywhere. Not sure how that would affect the neurological mechanism that responds to door-memory-fields. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148/9 "2015-04-21T19:03:44Z")
It’s not just doors. I can forget something just walking across a single room… no thresholds, no doorsills, no portals of any type. Just space and time and brain damage. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148/10 "2015-04-21T19:15:43Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > It’s not just doors. I can forget something just walking across a single room… no thresholds, no doorsills, no portals of any type. Just space and time and brain damage. ↑ ↑ ↑ Am I in your club or are you in mine? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-memory-field-theory/718148/11 "2015-04-21T19:21:23Z")
\ What was the name of that club again? Does it have a clubhouse? With a door?