Crucially, the narrating self is duration-blind, giving no importance to the differing lengths of the two parts. So when it has a choice between the two, it prefers to repeat the long part, the one in which ‘the water was somewhat warmer’.
As shown in an experimennt by kehnmen where voulteers were asked to put their one hand in 14degree water for 60 sec and then their other han in 14 degree water for 60 sec and then another 30 sec in 15 degree water (where water was induced secretly.
