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Could you elaborate on this?
Moving in and out of rooms you've created taps deeply into a very primitive part of human psychology, creating feelings of nostalgia and wonder and also in the case of minecraft--protection.
Another example is the "mind palace" method of recording information that humans used for centuries to record extensive oral histories.
You could think of the Doorway effect as a glitch from that same brain function.