Spatial Musical Memory Loss

Spatial Musical Memory Loss is the phenomenon where you have a useful or well put together musical idea that you can't immediately write down, so when you enter a new room to get to a place where you can write the idea down, you completely forget it. Many producers and alike can relate to this feeling, and it leaves the affected with great disappointment and unfettered curiosity for what the idea was.

It is actually scientifically proven that the brain encounters a phenomenon called the "Doorway Effect" where the brain archives the thoughts from the previous room to free up mental processing power for the new rooms. This same phenomenon can also explain the way one may forget why they walked to the kitchen, for example.

Famous musician Bill Wurtz was asked a question about this topic on his website's questions page, here is what he had to say:

"i have pretty strong emergency idea delivery infrastructure. for the most part i carry around the means to capture them.... and if not, i have dilligent memory methods to impliment, if necessary. The only situation where i will forget something is if i skipped it on purpose. for example, if it comes from a dream, and it's REALLY not any good. like it's really generic or lame or both, and i dont even want to keep it. then i'll let it go. Then 6 hours later i'll be suffering from the curiosity of not knowing what it was. even though i know i let it go on purpose. For that reason, i usually even grab the lousy ones too, just to avoid this kind of fomo. with a note next to it saying i really dont want it but i'm just avoiding the fomo. for peace of mind"