> "A clock that ticks seconds irregularly but is accurate for minutes."
Sounds like something that could be tried as a fix for a kind of OCD (obsessive seconds counting).
Sounds like something that could be tried as a fix for a kind of OCD (obsessive seconds counting).
It's just the right amount of "did that clock just skip a beat? Nah must just be my imagination".
Something like this would be anxiety inducing for most people, I bet. That'd be an excellent experiment, track heart rate, EEG, and performance on a range of cognitive tasks with 2 minute long breaks between each tasks, one group exposed to the irregular ticking, another exposed to regular ticking, another with silence, and one last one with pleasant white noise.