Actually, I think of it as reading the clock wrong. Say you are tired and the little hand becomes the big hand, because of actually being half-awake, and not really awake. I tend to stare at the clock a bit longer now, since I know for a fact that it was me, reading the clock wrong. Sometimes it does pay to slow down a little, for more may actually be accomplished with just a slight slowing down.
When someone is not quite awake, funny things like that can happen, even if the person does not think that it did happen. Actually, being half-awake is like being in a different reality, and it does make a difference to know when you are fully awake, so you do not question yourself so much. It aids tension relief!
Mediation and forms of relaxation will also aid knowing about being fully awake, and it also will be done quicker, and one will not make those errors like that. I know, I been there, and yes, it has happened. Then one day you realize that it was just the fault of not being fully awake, and all of that seems to disappear as you gain a new healthier reality. Then one starts discussing time and all of that also, thens ends up on time travel discussion forums, and starts discussing time travel for some reason, because this is one of the first times that "time" has reached a new reality level to that person!
Yes, by now, I actually do have many answers to just about anything. I worked at it, read the books, digested the material, and have discovered that although it make take awhile to sink into the brain of any person who does read about many subjects (it does not happen all at once, and never has, this is normal) that the brain is always still working -- in the end!
Now, please go applaud yourselves because the world is so negative that giving yourselves something positive is just a normal reaction to all the negativity one gains and gets from being in this World.
You know there is the News you hear everything, the future you think about, the relationships you have with other people, and most of it is negative. Wipe it out, and cancel it out, when it occurs.
The same thing is going to happen for the most part anyway, so why give yourselves negativity. The World is never in short supply of that emotion either. In fact, it may be the most abundant resource this world seems to transmit!
So, unlike so many others, applaud the fact that your brains are seemingly working better now, than in the Past!
Soon enough, it will all fizzle away anyway, so getting older is no big deal, it just became a coping mechanism, and older people just ignore it in the end. Ah, the truth about -- bliss!
But not too much bliss, as anything to extreme becomes extreme, so moderation is the key.
The moral of all of this, is wait a few seconds before looking at the clock anyway, it still will be ticking, and the only thing that was going on at that moment was the emotion attached that one had to find out quickly what time it was, and a few seconds later when one fully awakes is no big deal. Don't startle yourselves. That is what really went away in the end. Your brain just reminded its self that it was not fully awake to make a determination of what the clock was reading anyway, so it adjusted so you would not be startled by it all!
Amazing!