Mind Clock
Last week, I was bedridden due to Dengue. Well, it was a rough week. Had to visit the hospital twice a day to get a saline infusion for faster recovery. While I laid back for the saline unit to drip down into my blood, some thought struck me hard which I kept thinking for days. Twice a day, as I lay down on the patient bed, the nurse administered the saline, setting the drip at a set amount while casually conversing with me. He used to set the drip to the same frequency every day and leave to attend to other patients. Exactly 5 minutes before the saline was at its final drops, he came and removed it. On point This happened twice a day for about a week. The fascinating part was after setting the saline up, he would come back exactly 5 min before completion, checking the level maybe once in between. His sense of time flow was on point with maybe an error of 1-2 minutes. The first time I thought that it was just their daily task and they got habituated to it. Still, getting habituated to ...