Challenge #01551-D090: Case Studies in Strangeness
(A scientist's notes while monitoring a human's thoughts)
While trying to focus, the subject held an intense discussion with itself berating itself to focus.
If the scans are anything to go by, it has not enabled the desired effect. -- RecklessPrudence
Everyone knows that humans are insane. The extent of that insanity and the resultant dysfunctions have yet to be completely mapped. Which is why the Centre For Human Studies exist. Sometimes, people are so desperate to know what's wrong with them that they'll sign up to be an experimental subject.
Today, it was Focus In Cogniscents for D'rex. Watching the brainwaves of their test subject as they attempted to focus on a simple written exam, in an otherwise empty room. They had the bare minimum of furnishings, as is standard in exam environments.
This proved difficult for test subject Tammy, who is on record has having an attention deficit disorder. Whilst attempting to focus, subject Tammy held an intense discussion with herself, berating herself to focus.
Scans indicated that this effort was unsuccessful. Despite there being a significant lack of distracting items in the room, subject Tammy was repeatedly distracted by invasive thoughts.
Following the control half-hour, D'rex introduced subject Tammy's favourite 'fidget'. A terran-made object designed for no other purpose than to be moved about in the sinister hand. Once the 'fidget' was introduced, subject Tammy was able to focus intensely on the given task, whilst her sinister hand was otherwise occupied.
Examiner D'rex made some notes on the time mark when the 'fidget' was introduced, and the change in brain waves. After another half-hour, the 'fidget' would be replaced with a less familiar small toy, and subject Tammy's brain waves would be measured anew.
Some humans, they knew, could only focus if they had something to play with. The problem was figuring out why
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