[TaylorAlexander]

A perhaps related effect is that when I leave the house I always forget one or two things, and I remember them usually once I start the car engine. So then I turn off the car and go back to my apartment and grab the remaining items. But I recently learned that I can imagine leaving the house, and it helps me remember the final things I forgot!

[bigger_cheese]

I also get this very strong feeling of having forgotten something when I get into my car.

It used to happen almost daily. I would get into my car reverse out of my driveway. I would drive towards my workplace for about 2 to 5 minutes until I hit first red traffic light and as I'm waiting at traffic lights I would get this sinking feeling that I'd forgotten to close my garage door.

This is despite the fact I do not have a remotely operated garage door it is manual. I have to reverse out of garage, get out of my car, manually close the garage door and get back into car and reverse out of driveway.

I would wrack my short term memory while sitting at traffic lights and have no recollection of closing the garage door. It was as if my journey (in my memory) would always begin with turning out of my driveway.

Nowadays I force myself to look over shoulder and check the garage door as I turn out of my driveway and onto the street.

[TaylorAlexander]

Yeah I have that with locking the front door! It normally auto-locks and I just need to make sure it is latched and I need to check the handle to make sure I didn’t have the auto-lock off. But this latch-check happens so fast (I do always do it) that I will often forget. I have never gone back to check and found it unlocked but I still go back and check often. But for me this happens when I’m 100 feet away at the car so it’s not too bad.