Random Topic Generator: What Day is it?

It’s strange that, upon waking up, you believe it to be another day. Sometimes it only lasts momentarily, but on other times, you could go the entire morning believing it to be tomorrow.

This happened to me on Thursday morning. I woke up and believed it to be Friday, today. It was only when I discovered a piece of information did I realise that today was actually Thursday. Why does that happen? I’m not asking that question because I’m going to answer it somewhere on this article, I’m asking rhetorically because I know scientists haven’t figured that out yet. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough online, but not only is the answer unknown to us, but apparently there isn’t a name for it either.

These are just my thoughts on the matter. I in no way claim to have figured out the answer, just wanted to point out a pattern I had come to notice.

This is an extremely popular occurrence I know that for a fact. If I were to ask everyone I know, they undoubtedly would say they’ve experienced it more than once in their lives. That notion you get when you wake up, and start acting upon the plans you had laid out for today, only to realise that they were for tomorrow instead. Of course there are various reasons for why this happens, and despite the fact that we probably can state why it happened when it does because of a certain reason, that doesn’t explain why it does happen altogether.

If you have a big event on at the end of the week and you’ve spent many days planning it, and each day has a set amount of plans that need to be executed, it’s possible that you could believe it to be another day because you have so many plans going around you head all at once, each one just as important as the other. Your brain, upon waking up with everything weighing on your mind at once, could get confused with how quick it needs to get moving and thinking. It doesn’t have to be a massive event, just various tasks in an assignment, and with the deadline looming, you could believe it to be today, when instead it’s tomorrow. It doesn’t have to be an assignment you could just have a lot to do over the week. I’ve never really experienced this phenomenon without some sort of stress in the present moment.

Stress affects us all differently, but our brains get confused just the same as all the others, so maybe that’s why it happens. We’re all suffering from the side effects of confusion because our brains are under an amount of stress.

This doesn’t happen when we’ve got something exciting planned over the weekend. You don’t wake up on Friday and believe it to be Saturday. We know we have one more day to work before we can go away and enjoy ourselves for two entire days. Even when the exciting activity is happening mid-week, you don’t wake up thinking it’s that day and not go to work, only for your boss to ring you up and wonder where you are, leading you to realise what day it actually is. That never happens, but instead only when a lot is happening all at once.

Thanks for reading

Antony Hudson

(TonyHadNouns)