Whether I set a 5-minute timer, a 15-minute timer, or a 30-minute timer, I always seem to instinctually know when it’s about to go off within 1-3 minutes of the correct time. I’m not counting, I just get this strong urging and knowledge in my head that it’s almost up.
This is in opposition to when I was in Kindergarten (I think), when I was baffled at the concept of having a sense of time. I couldn’t tell how long anything had taken numerically without counting it directly.
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Of course, when it comes to 5-minute timers, my accuracy is closer to me knowing 10 seconds beforehand.
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There’s a lot of things going on in your body that helps it keep track of time. While the process is not really known, some concrete examples of things that helps with keeping track of time is your heartbeat pace as well as the pace of your own idle thoughts.
The pace of your thoughts is an interesting one. You know the phrase, “Time flies when you’re having fun?” It’s from doing a lot of things at once and believing that you’re processing thoughts so much faster, and you end up feeling that only a little time has passed when actually whole hours flew by. You don’t have to have fun, stress from work may also do the trick XD
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