A few months ago I noticed that a lot of the time my subconscious is counting along without me. Several times a day I'll be walking down the street, around campus, wherever, thinking deep thoughts, then realize that somewhere in my head, I'm counting strides, two footsteps to a count, "twenty- one. twenty- two." the troubling thing is that often by the time I notice it, I'm already up in the hundreds, and I never remember starting.