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4 Things People Don’t Know About Why We Forget Things
What you can do
Have you ever dropped your wallet and forgotten where you kept it? Or did you put your phone, lock the front door, or even enter a room only to forget why?
If you’re awake for 16 hours today, your senses are open for business for 57,600 seconds. That’s a lot of data, which means you just can’t and won’t remember most things.
Forgetfulness is the occasional inability to remember things due to changes in the brain.
Most people have misconceptions about forgetting things. They tend to associate it with memory problems.
Here are some of the things people don’t know about why we forget things from time to time.
Perfect Memory
Most people think we have a perfect memory. But we don’t.
Human memory is far from perfect, and this leads to errors such as overlooking details, forgetting specific information, and even conflating or distorting events.
In a famous gorilla experiment, a team of Harvard researchers asked participants to watch a short video. In the video, two groups of people, one in white shirts and the other in black shirts, were passing around basketballs.
