[analog8374]

Memory is environment-associated. Which is to say, these memories that you have are connected to the environment that you find yourself in. Change your environment and your memory, to a degree proportional to the environment change, breaks.

This is why sometimes you enter a room and forget why you came in.

This can explain the phenomenon referred to in the op. A woman enters a room devoid of estrogen and her memory breaks.

[phoronixrly]

Eh, have you seen any research on this or are you quoting own experience?

[stevenhuang]

All of the claims above wrt memory reads quite mundane and adequately non assertive, but I'm a layperson.

I do believe it's well established that memory is associative. It's why roses are associated with love, because of Valentine's Day. If you see roses or smell roses, you will recall memories of your loved ones maybe, especially if you have given them roses.

Whether the decline in estrogen content of a room can be the dominant mechanism for momentary memory loss is a separate claim and more dubious sounding to me though (estrogen behaving like a pheromone??), but it's not like I have looked into this deeply so idk.

[analog8374]

Most people are profoundly conformist in their opinions and very defensive towards the smallest contradiction. It's a conversation-killer. It's the cement that binds society. It is what it is.

[phoronixrly]

I am in fact agreeing with your opinion, however I refuse to accept it without any evidence. And I don't think asking for sources or expressing a contradicting opinion is a conversation killer.