Whether it is cooking, or setting timers, is anyone else able to very accurately predict timers.
E.g.cset the oven for 35 minutes, then walk into the kitchen with 1 min left on the timer?
My job requires a lot of running tests that take half an hour, 1 hour etc. I have been doing some other things, and wondered “the test has to be done now”. As I am taking my phone out of my pocket, my alarm goes.
And this is my work phone, not my fun phone! Work phone normally sits on my desk all day getting ignored!!
I’m notorious for this stuff. I also have a tendency of knowing what time of day it is without looking at the clock for hours, usually within 5 minutes. Freaks my wife out.
My partner has this but in the most annoying way possible. He’ll set a timer on our oven, then go sit down in the other room. At some point, inevitably, he will become convinced that he forgot to set the timer. After me failing to convince him this happens every time, he’ll get up to check. There will be 1 minute remaining on the timer.
Every. Damn. Time!
Don’t know if it counts but I hate my alarm so much that I sometimes wake up 1 minute before it triggers.
My grandpa used to brag that he could always tell you the time to within 3 minutes if you asked. Meanwhile my ADHD makes me utterly time blind
See I can do what OP is talking about for anything that doesn’t matter. If it matters, ADHD takes over
I have the opposite of Spidey sense and will frequently forget I’m cooking something if I don’t set a timer.
Oh, yeah
I seem to know when timers will go off, and what time a clock will show, know how much time is left in a movie
Stupid brain keeps track of time pretty well, I guess
I have this!!
Same here. I think it only works for durations I often use like cooking eggs. Might be result of unintended training.
We needed to be able to observe the passage of time before clocks… Even before we had names for units of time or time itself
Humans are just over evolved pattern recognition machines, it shouldn’t be surprising we still recognize some while on autopilot.
Roland Deschain
I do, but only sometimes. It’s very hit or miss.
i have the exact opposite of this. i have to count the seconds in my head to make sure i’ve been brushing for two minutes.
Isn’t there some weird cognative effect happening in situations like this?
- Alarm goes off
- Wake up
- Brain rearranges your memories so that you remember waking up just before the alarm went off
- “What a coincidence that I woke up before the alarm”
Those cases for me are usually waking up in a panic thinking I’ve overslept my alarm, but when I check the time it’s 10min before it goes off…
Interesting, because in times of low stress, I’m able to wake up a few minutes before the alarm and then turn it off just to stand up rested.
Deja Vu is like that too
I’ve developed it after two decades waiting tables, and learned to listen to it, but it’s useless for anything other than “food’s almost ready” or “I’m about to get sat again” and so on.
I’m like bipolar about it. Sometimes I do, just like you mentioned; other times I forget and overshoot it a mile.
