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Pollux V
04-17-03, 01:18 PM
I wear a watch that I love and I always leave it in the bathroom before retiring to my chamber:p Anyhoo, one night a few weeks ago I left the watch where I usually did and then returned to it in the morning to find that it had been set back exactly 7 hours. I know this because I set my watch to the clocks at school and have the second ticker right on the mark. Needless to say it was very wierd and I am completely clueless as to how such a thing could occur. I don't think my family members could have done it, because it would have involved some pretty damn accurate timing and for a basic prank such as this one that seems to be a little much. The battery probably wouldn't have stopped, it works fine now and did then, haven't had any problems for months or years....

I just don't know. Who could fancy a suggestion?

airavata
04-17-03, 01:28 PM
hmm... this merits careful consideration..... most abnormal yes..uncomman certainly... bizarre even would not be too harsh...perplexing. you call your bedroom your chamber? :bugeye:

Pollux V
04-17-03, 01:50 PM
The chamber thing was a bit of a joke. Nevertheless, it was extremely odd. Could it have slipped through a wormhole....?

Avatar
04-17-03, 01:55 PM
I think it's a little prank done by you sis

airavata
04-17-03, 02:21 PM
hmm.. galactic possibilities yes... a worm hole that's it.

btw..that's the first time i've heard anyone refer to their bedroom as 'my chamber.' pretty cool pollux. :D

Vortexx
04-17-03, 03:08 PM
You have been alien abducted and have spent some time in another timeframe. Go to a hypnotist to uncover the part you can't remember...

Ojed
04-17-03, 04:24 PM
Would this be a cheap watch, or a (relatively) expensive watch? 'Cause I own a 10 dollar digital watch, and one time I looked at it and it had gone totally blank, like the battery had gone out, except that it was fairly new. I pushed a random button, and the time came back, only twelve minutes off. (I assumed that it had "gone out" for that amount of time.

So my answer is that maybe it just stopped in the middle of the night, for absolutely no reason, and then started 7 hours later before you looked at it next.

Not to say that I'm ruling out some sort of spacetime anomaly...:p

o.j.e.d.

sargentlard
04-17-03, 04:36 PM
Maybe your watch was abducted by really lame or really bored aliens and put through anal probing...after hours of anal probing fun with the watch the aliens lost track of the time and realized that you were about to wake up so in a hurry they did what they could with the watch and ran. Did you notice any holes in the back of your watch?.....or maybe the watch travelled through a wormhole and bumped into a alien ship and then the aliens decided to anal probe the watch for some apparent reason. Maybe your watch is alive and is playing mind games with you like that Stephen king movie. I say search for more clues in your bathroom and your ...um..chamber....*laughs uncontrollably*...or maybe the watch skipped a few hours.:cool:

ben nevis
04-17-03, 07:28 PM
Are you sure it was your watch? Perhaps it was a mechanised doppelganger.

DCLXVI
04-17-03, 07:37 PM
That happens to my alarm clock when the battery goes low, It'll stop for a few hours and then keep going as if nothing happened for days afterwards.

ChildOfTheMind
04-17-03, 07:49 PM
All these explanations are very very believeable, however I have came to the reasonable conclusion that it was you were knocked unconcious, and somehow the watch bent light around itself, and pushed gravity in front of itself, then as you lay unconcious time swirled in head of you for 7 hours... eaither that are the probing idea...

ChildOfTheMind
04-17-03, 07:51 PM
Ya you say something odd happened to you... well I stumbeled upon magical green bars... just look:


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DCLXVI
04-17-03, 07:55 PM
Edit: Woah, major fuckup.

ChildOfTheMind
04-17-03, 07:58 PM
DCLXVI, I wasnt trying to be annoying, and what was the code thing you posted...well anyway, do you see green lines... and do you know how I did thatm if you do I would like to know as well, because I dont even know... I was just messing around with some HTML

Pollux V
04-18-03, 01:08 PM
None of these explanations will do. The battery is fine, and even if it did stop, the odds of it stopping at the exact same time are extremely low. The watch is a good one, presumably expensive. I got it from my grandfather a few years ago, it's a Seiko.

airavata
04-18-03, 02:16 PM
your grandfather gave it? methinks he might be the key to this puzzle..... i still haven't gotten over the chamber bit. :D

Bebelina
04-18-03, 04:37 PM
What's the matter with this thread? The text is unviewable , it's black, and there are bright thick green lines between every post.

Pollux V
04-18-03, 08:09 PM
I see the green lines but I can read it.

creamsoda
04-19-03, 01:36 AM
Sorry, I admit it, I snuck into your bathroom, took your watch on impulse, set it back seven hours, stripped down to my underwear and crawled unedr your bed.....

Pollux V
04-19-03, 06:36 AM
Guys...this isn't helping. Think about it. What happened with my watch was really really wierd and it makes no sense. It's kind of freaking me out.

airavata
04-19-03, 01:54 PM
methinks this is a ploy... a cunning strategem pollux, wean off the stupid ones from the intelligent ones, set up a meeting in the atlantic, and then proceed to create polluxian spawn. thou hast not ensnared me. i say to everyone....beware of pollux.

Xerxes
04-20-03, 12:38 AM
A similar thing happened to me. The watch just stopped working for a few hours (for some innexplicable reason) and then all of a sudden turned itself back on. Meaning, the circuit was back up and what not and the parts just started moving. But you say that your watch turned itself back on exactly seven hours later. This seems like too much of a coincidence, so I speculate two possible explanations:

1) It really is a coincidence and you're experience wishful thinking. Maybe you want us to tell you that it's a magical event, or that your watch was abducted by aliens. Remember, coincidence happens all the time, and the really strange ones are bound to happen at least once in a lifetime.

2) Now, another thing that might have caused this to happen is that the mechanical parts inside just set themselves back several ticks when you put the watch down. 'Why' is completely irrelevant, since you're worried 'how' something like this could have happened. Something possible malfunctioned, and since the watch goes by incremental measure, instead of digital-- it would have been far more likely for your watch to be set back by a nice round figure, then some completely random one.

3) This is an imaginary option, since it's highly improbable. You're watch was abducted by aliens, or a manifestation of evil - OR had been through an anomalie...


Whatever it is, don't sweat it. There's probably a perfectly scientific explanation that doesn't involve complication. I really think you'd rather believe the mystical then reality. But that's a good thing.

Pollux V
04-20-03, 06:42 AM
To the best of my knowledge, the watch never stopped. I put it down, it was at the normal time, went to sleep, woke up, checked it, and saw that it was seven hours back. I waited until I got to school and found that it was set exactly to the clocks there. Now, if it did stop for some inexplicable reason I believe the odds are about 1:120 of it starting back up again at the exact same time. Compounded with that is that it started exactly seven hours....

Agghh, it's so wierd. I'm not sure I calculated the odds right as well...I probably didn't.

Jack G
04-21-03, 01:28 PM
Here's my theory -

The gear for the hour hand is loose. Sometime around 1 AM, the hour hand fell back to the 6, or bottom, position of the watch. the minute hand stayed where it was, so, in effect, the watch was turned back exactly seven hours.