It had taken Hermione an entire week's worth of meditating to sort out her mind. It took her that long because at first, she had just wanted to copy Draco's method, but she soon discovered that had little effect on her mind. The mental bottles would spill over, and her mind would be an even bigger mess than when she started. After talking about it with Draco, she finally settled on another system for cataloguing her memories and deepest thoughts.