I often have dreams that involve me dissociating and losing time. I mean I actually dream that I am dissociating in the dream. It quite a bit. Like I will dream that I go to my therapy session, get there early, so I climb up a hill to wait until session time. Then (still in my dream), a person shows up and talks to me. I ask her if it is about 3 pm, and she says "No, it's almost 4 pm." Then I suddenly realize I've lost track of time and my session time is nearly over.

I also dream constantly that I lose people. . .get separated from them, can't find them, dream that I wake up and don't know where I am at, etc. But these things are actually in the dreams themselves.

Why would I dream about losing time and losing people and losing my memory of where I am, etc.? I don't recall that I've ever actually gotten lost in real life (although my sense of direction stinks). I have suffered a lot of abandonments by people, but I've never "lost time" in real life. The most I've ever done is to zone out and lose track of time, but not really lose big chunks of time.