Yeah I did! I beat the system, stuck one up theirs. My Temporal Re-alignment.
See, its just a matter of perception. Time is the perception of events flowing by.. its a "perception" of what's going on. We naturally set a certain time as morning, and fervently believe it to be morning. Suppose I was brought up to believe that the green thing that sits on trees, flies around and eats chillies is a rat, instead of a parrot, I would fanatically believe that it is indeed a rat!
So, since I get a little loony around the pre-exam days, especially if I have a lot of course still left and am a few hours short to cover it all.. I decided to simply travel back in time.
A couple of days back, I was supposed to spend all afternoon revising Physics, and the entire evening doing Chemistry till 10 PM, and the rest of the time, till about 2 Am doing Maths. I got lazy and slept off on my table all afternoon, and the Physics was critical.. I had to finish it otherwise I would lose a lot of free marks. So I got up cursing myself at 6:30 PM, and mutely cried out at the injustice of time being uni-directional and linear. Then I got an idea. I simply set my clock back to 4:30 PM, and fervently and fanatically believed it to be 4:30 PM and considered that the Sun had simply decided to go home early and that I was perfectly on schedule.
And guess what? I did work right on schedule. I finished my Physics & Chemistry by 10 PM, only wondering a little as to why everyone had emptied the streets and gone to bed so early and what was wrong with the world anyway? ;-) Then at 1 AM, I finished Maths early and felt very happy that I had completed things right on schedule! And derived greater pleasure on seeing that the real time was 3 AM and that I had returned home victorious after saving my past from losing lots of free marks.
Cool idea eh?!
PS: This idea is only applicable for single day journeys. Multiple day journeys will probably end up with you turning up for an exam after everyone's solved the paper, gone home and you disturbing the night-watchman's sleep.
3 comments:
I've tried that. I have never gained anything by it, because I lose as much sleep I need to have a energetic day ahead.
I try moving forward in time during exams.I set my watch 15 minutes ahead of the real time so that I finish 15 minutes
earlier believing that time is over.My mind refuses to be tricked though.I even asked a friend to set my clock ahead
of its time without telling me by how many minutes she had set it ahead, once :-D
Oh I do something even more loony. My wrist-watch's got spoilt.. it gains 5 minutes every hour. I could go and get it repaired easily, except that I find it extremely useful as I am able to make myself believe whatever I want, so I make myself believe that the real time is what my watch's showing and I always end up finishing my exam paper by the time my watch shows that 3 hours are up.. and guess what? I get 15 extra minutes free to check my paper. :-) Positive pressure.
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