Do you find yourself counting everything by habit?
By pandaeyes
@pandaeyes (2065)
March 3, 2010 6:54am CST
When I was younger I would count things wherever we were.
It might be tiles on the wall or the amount of patterns in the wallpaper.
Ticks of a clock or beats of the music.
Sometimes it was useful, people might say how many times have I done that? and I would already know because I was counting it in my head ,for example mum would be knitting and I would count her hand passing the wool over or under or when she started a row,she would change hands and that would get counted too . Its easy to lose count in knitting as it gets repetitive.
Often it was annoying because it spoiled things like music or just concentration .
I used to watch the defragmenter working on our computer when we had windows 95. I liked to see the blocks hopping about changing colours.
Also the download count on a file.
Well I don't find myself doing it any more.
I can go for days and not do it and if I have anything I need to count now, I count it and then forget about it.
Do you count anything automatically?
Will you calculate the tiles on the ceiling or walls?
5 responses
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
5 Mar 10
When I was in college I will say that I was quite married to the number five. What I mean is that when I was taking notes for a class I would let myself get a drink every time I had completed five lines of notes or five questions from homework and the such. Now, however, there are not a lot of things that I do to which I am married to numbers. The only place that I really count anything anymore is here on mylot because I like to keep my post count at a multiple of ten.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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5 Mar 10
Oh I do it to 8 if I am jumping rope(what I do when I'm not having a run that day).
I count my jumps because I cant see the clock clearly and 120 jumps is 1 minute.
But I always find myself thinking in 8's and I have to force myself to count in 10s as it is easier to not lose count.
@homeshoppers (6166)
• Philippines
3 Mar 10
i also have that kind of habit before and worst is i just used my eyes and mind to count them and so a lot of them notice about it. they though i have problem coz they always saw me staring to something without moving but just my eyes. and so i told them im actually counting. and so my brother who happened to be a nurse, he told me that if do that i should atl east use my hands to point and say it loudly so that when other people saw me doing it they know that i am counting than be look like i was in shocked like i saw something thats why i didnt move or talk.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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3 Mar 10
Haha I think pointing and counting might actually look worse especially if you are somewhere like the doctors waiting room or in school.
@silindaxu (208)
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3 Mar 10
No, I haven't the habit. I think it should be tired.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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3 Mar 10
Yes it jolly well is tiresome but one day I just stopped doing it.
No idea why, maybe other things became more interesting.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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3 Mar 10
I bet you will think about it though next time you are in a room with tiles LOL
Think it is 12 tiles across and 7 tiles up so that is...84 tiles..but how many inches is it for 10 inch square tiles...multiplied by 4 for the entire room. Take away the space for the door to fit in...
Hehe that's the way it used to go in my head!
@catlander (1)
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7 Apr 13
I've done it for as long as I can remember and I still do it now, hence why I'm trying to find other people that do this. I wondered what it's all about?! It doesn't bother me too much but I can't figure why I have to do it. Like sometimes I have to count something before I leave the house, or if someone is talking to me I might be counting something and not even listening because I have to count this thing I've seen. It's so weird.
