You make perfect sense to me :-). What you are describing very closely mirrors a great deal of my experience with dissociation. Rarely have I had real "blank outs" of time, but time is discontinuous for me. I have to look for clues in my environment to fill in the gaps, or to use another metaphor, to put together the links into a chain of time.

I've been in treatment (therapy and medication) for 20 years, so it is all much different now, thank heavens. But I still have breaks in the chain of time. I'm better at working around it, and it's more a "normal" part of life, but it happens.