Count the rogue water glasses in your home right now.

I'll wait.

If you found two or fewer, this note isn't for you. If you found seven scattered across three rooms (some with an inch of water, some empty, one with a mysterious film on top), welcome.

Each glass represents a moment when you were thirsty, poured water, took two sips, then your consciousness reconstructed around a new context and the glass ceased to exist in your awareness.

You didn't forget the water. The water left your active consciousness when the context shifted.

Later, you're thirsty again. You don't remember the glass in the other room because it was encoded in a previous consciousness session. So you pour a new one.

This isn't carelessness. It's context-bound object permanence. The glass exists in the context where you poured it. When that context ends, the glass disappears from your mental model.

Seven glasses isn't a mess. It's a map of how many times your consciousness rebuilt today.