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( Sep. 23rd, 2007 07:31 pm)

Why can't my brain be normal? Why can't it get panicked and obsessed over normal things? 
What does everyone else think about at 3 in the morning when they can't sleep?

Because what I ended up doing was trying to work out exactly how many times in 12 hours is the minute hand on a clock at exactly 180 degrees to the hour hand. I worked out that it happens eleven times in the twelve hour period, roughly once every 65 minutes. Same goes for the amount of times the minute hand overlays the hour hand. I had a panic attack around halfway in, when I miscounted and thought it was twelve times, and my brain tried to work out how exactly something can happen 12 times in 12 hours, yet be more than an hour apart each time. Then I figured out it was eleven times, and I needed to calm down. But I'm still not satisfied, because logically it should happen once every rotation of the minute hand, owing to the fact that it rotates at twelve times the speed of the hour hand, and the minute hand does twelve complete rotations in 12 hours, so it SHOULD happen twelve times, but that is physically and temporally impossible, and besides, I only counted eleven, no matter how I looked at it ....

Am I the only person who thinks this is an incredibly ridiculous thing to be fretting about at 3 in the bloody morning when I had to be up by 8? Moral of the story: Insomnia, Caffeine and Clocks are BAD for you, especially in combination with an obsessive mindframe.

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