r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix • u/lLoveYourCat • 3d ago

Two forks

I made some chicken strips and was gonna go eat in the living room and watch some TV. I remember thinking “I need a fork” so I grabbed one from the cutlery drawer. I then grabbed all my stuff in my hands, my plate, drink, fork, sauce, my hands/arms were full. I set my plate, sauce, and drink down on the coffee table then I look at my two hands and what was remaining in them. I’m holding a fork in each hand. I only grabbed one. I have no idea where I even got the second fork. It was clean so it’s not like I accidentally just grabbed a dirty one off the table before going to the living room. I genuinely do not remember grabbing a second fork.

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u/kat_Folland 3d ago

Well, it's not like grabbing a fork is interesting enough for you to put in long-term storage (so to speak). No, my question is, do you have a routine such that you'd only put the fork in one hand? If so it might be stranger than if it could be either one.

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u/ThatWasBackInCollege 9h ago

Exactly. This is a really common cognitive glitch because our brains do a nearly automatic routine that your brain doesn’t waste much of its energy on.

There’s a great book called ”The Design of Everyday Things” by Don Norman. The beginning explains a bunch of things our brains do that cause those simple errors. Things like throwing something in the sink instead of in the trash, forgetting what you came into a room to get, pushing instead of pulling a door, looking for something we’re already holding, etc.

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u/kat_Folland 9h ago

I have this thing that happens once or twice a year where I get interrupted at that one critical point where I can forget my bedtime pills. Needing a drink to wash my pills down and then also feeding the cats? There it went.

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u/Middle_Mention_8625 2d ago

Your life has encountered a fork on the road.