You stand in the middle of the room and painfully try to remember why you came. Then, when you come back, you suddenly remember that you were going to put the kettle on or water the flower in the window. This unpleasant phenomenon is probably familiar to you. This forgetfulness, which manifests itself mainly in adults, frightens many – they associate it with old age and dementia. But scientists were able to find the cause of this phenomenon and explained in detail what was happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now we know that old age has nothing to do with it and the good news came to us from distant Australia. Scientists from Bond University called this phenomenon “threshold syndrome”, since it was noticed that the thought flies out of the head precisely when moving into another room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It turns out that this is a completely normal universal feature of human consciousness, which is found everywhere on the planet and is not associated with age, gender or occupation. Scientists investigated the nature of the “threshold syndrome” and were very surprised. They conducted an experiment in which they showed volunteers a sequence of three-dimensional figures and then had them walk through a virtual gallery of rooms filled with different objects and images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the 3D tour, participants were periodically asked to recall the sequence of figures shown at the beginning. Surprisingly, in this case the brain did not fail and a number of objects were named without errors. It could be concluded that amnesia is purely domestic in nature and cannot be artificially induced. But Bond University professors did not give up – they made the task more difficult by forcing the test subjects to solve mathematical and logical problems in their minds during a virtual voyage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it worked! Every second participant in the experiment began to forget the sequence of figures. Thus, it was found that the \u201cthreshold syndrome\u201d manifests itself at times when our brain is overloaded with information and at the same time we have abruptly changed the situation. Simply put, the brain begins to process new visual information, and simply resets previous tasks. But even here there are nuances. If we move around in more or less monotonous interiors or in the same type of terrain, for example, driving on a highway or wandering around a large store, then this overload does not occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But something new, for example, leaving the market for a parking lot or changing the forest along the road to the fields, can already cause amnesia. The Australians are sure that this \u201cbug\u201d of our consciousness is a completely normal phenomenon, and if it happens sometimes, then it does not pose a danger to a person. It is quite another matter if you have to deal with the \u201cthreshold syndrome\u201d daily or even several times a day. This may already be a sign of a serious illness, such as Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n