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There must be something keeping track of time in our bodies and brains. I had a neat little lcd alarm clock that I bought as a 13 yr old with my own money, and
by Cheyana 11y ago
There must be something keeping track of time in our bodies and brains. I had a neat little lcd alarm clock that I bought as a 13 yr old with my own money, and I had it for almost 30 years. I became so finely tuned to that clock I used to wake up a few seconds before it went off and I would hold the button down. A microsecond blip of the alarm still snuck through but I did this at least once a week for years. Most of the time I would wake a few minutes before. It proved to me long ago that the brain can track time with uncanny precision, given enough conditioning.
- danharaj 11y agoIn the case of sleep your brain can correlate the time of the alarm to whatever physiological state you are in at that point of sleep, which can create a strong associative effect. You could call it keeping track of time though it sounds more like keeping track of a point in time than keeping track of a duration. I have the same relationship to my alarm clock.
- Cheyana 11y agoInteresting. So that would explain why...no matter what time I went to sleep I still woke up at nearly the exact same time every morning.