CONFUSION ABOUT TIME
Scrooge experienced confusion regarding the passage of time, believing he may have slept through an entire day and into another night, and questioning whether something had happened to the sun. This confusion is a relevant fact for information discovery about his state of mind.
SCROOGE
'Why, it isn't possible,' said Scrooge, 'that I can have slept through a whole day and far into another night. It isn't possible that anything has happened to the sun, and this is twelve at noon!' ... The more he thought, the more perplexed he was; and, the more he endeavoured not to think, the more he thought.