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ChristianKl comments on An accidental experiment in location memory - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 02 September 2015 01:44:59PM 1 point [-]

nearly sending me stumbling into my large, expensive, and fragile monitor.

Basically you experienced a trauma. Physiology 101 suggests that if you get into the same location in which you experienced a trauma in the past you brain will react to the trauma and avoid the action that produced the trauma in the first place. That's a process of learning that I would expect to happen and most of those reactions are unconscious.