How accurate is your internal clock?

Wow Lesley! I would say mine is reasonably good but I don’t think it’s as good as yours! 😄

I haven’t noticed lately how mine is but several years ago it was great. My dh would ask what time it was and I would be within a minute or two all the time. 

Mine is rubbish. I can be an hour or more out. Hopefully I have some other skill because I certainly don’t have that.

My internal clock is broken. I think it's the ADHD. I once was two hours late for Christmas. I'm better now but there was a time that my family would tell me to be somewhere an hour early. When I worked in an office I was routinely 10-15 minutes late. I'd have an oh shit moment at 8 am and then luckily, I only live 2 miles from work.

I have always used my oven timer for cooking. But I have started using a cube timer every day for all other tasks. It also makes me less likely to randomly wander off from what I'm doing or to have my brain go sideways. If I set the cube timer for 20 minutes to work on a project, I can say to myself it's only 20 minutes so I can sit still that long and concentrate if I know I can stand up and take a break and switch tasks after that 20 minutes.

It is really helping me out mostly with work. But since COVID my work schedule is flexible. So I am one of those people who address everything important when the task comes in. If that means I work 10 hours in a day, I do that and then work 6 on a day when my workload is light. I don't put anything off. I don't procrastinate any tasks because if I do, I know I'll forget and sometimes things don't get done at all or at the very least on time.

These are all adaptations I've learned to make to manage my bipolar/mania/ADHD brain.

ETA: this is the reason I often do the 15 min challenge threads here. When I say 15 minutes ona task, I literally mean 15 minutes.

cooking. I'm really good. most the rest of the time I know the time within 10 min.. I'm also good on directions. I always know where north is..

Only slightly better than my sense of direction which is rather pitiful!

Very, very strong. I have the same super power as the OP and my kids are also always amazed.

Time change affects me greatly because my internal clock takes a good week to reset. My alarm almost never wakes me up. Even if I go to bed super late, my body still wakes me up on time. Even if I need to get up earlier than normal, my internal clock still wakes me up.

When cooking it is good, hut I think it is more due to smell than actually time telling. I always get up to grab item out of oven or off stove about 30 seconds before timer goes off. If it isn't done when timer goes off I can usually tell Alexa how much time to add to get it done properly.
I do wake up 5 minutes before my alarm clock every weekday.

You can set your watch by my internal clock. My mother used to do just that.

That’s a very good point. I will admit that when I was younger I just didn’t understand how some people are always late. I’m a teacher and the teachers that come in late just put more on us that are on time. Now that I’m older I realize it’s not that black and white and spend way less time and energy worrying about other people and focus on myself!

Not accurate.

When im in my hour barre class - I never have any clue how much longer it will be.

I often wake up and think it must be 6am…but it’s only 2am.

If I don’t set a timer I have no idea how long something has been cooking…

Mine is great. I usually know exactly what time it is within a few minutes. Thought I was a weirdo or something. Guess not, sounds like there’s lots of us!

I am pretty good about what time it is without having looked at a clock.
As far as cooking - I need a timer no matter what. mostly becuase my short-term memory isn't good enough to remember when I put something in!

mine is pretty good. DH was setting his alarm last night and i realized that i've never had an alarm beat me to waking up. it's a weird quirk with me.