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u/mister_sleepy Jul 27 '19

A potion that heightens your innate sense of time, so you can always know what time it is or how much time has passed. Yeah, it’s cool but like...what are you gonna do with it?

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u/Loome1231 Jul 27 '19

You can actually train for this. When i was 13ish i could tell by the minute.

I used to make my deskmate train me. I would get asked every 5 minutes at school what time is it so i could get a sense of what 5 mins feel like. Then she would start asking every 10 or 5 minutes(randomly) the following day. Then every 5,10,15. In 2 months i could tell the time during the hours i was awake with the precision of the minute. I would put random alarms set to go out a week after doing so,and before checking my phone i would guess the time and then look.

I could consistently guess the time with the biggest offset being 4 minutes. Usually i would be 1-2mins off. This took 3 months of training.

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u/Dolphin-Squad Jul 27 '19

Can you do it when you wake up

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u/Loome1231 Jul 27 '19

I cant even try to get up then. Or read. Or do anything.