[GunterWunter345]

I was just looking at some stuff on my laptop, and I swear, it was just 9:00. When I checked the clock again, it was 11:10! O_O All I know that I think might have triggered something was that I was trying to look at my old house from when I was 3-7 ( I think that's when I got abused, because I literally can't remember anything until I was like 7). It looked really, really familiar and I can remember a few memories hitting me and that's when I checked the clock. Weird thing is, all I did was look at the trees. I wasn't looking at any houses. What happened to me?

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by GunterWunter345

I was just looking at some stuff on my laptop, and I swear, it was just 9:00. When I checked the clock again, it was 11:10! O_O All I know that I think might have triggered something was that I was trying to look at my old house from when I was 3-7 ( I think that's when I got abused, because I literally can't remember anything until I was like 7). It looked really, really familiar and I can remember a few memories hitting me and that's when I checked the clock. Weird thing is, all I did was look at the trees. I wasn't looking at any houses. What happened to me?

Im sorry we cant tell you what happened to you. it is you that must tell us what happened to you...we are not allowed to make a diagnosis or perform therapy on each other....

that said what I can tell you is that what happened to you can be many things depending upon what your diagnosis is, what meds you are on and other accompanying symptoms..

I have had this kind of thing happen. in me my treatment providers called it by many names....flashbacks, anxiety, stress, not eating correctly not getting enough fluids, psychosis, medication problems and various dissociative events spanning from the normal events to the abnormal events.....

here where I live and work (new York which is in the USA) losing time with dissociation varies ... this is because dissociation is a very normal reaction to many different things and it spans from completely normal to the abnormal...

here losing track of time while on the computer is a completely normal type of dissociation that happens to every person.

here losing track of the time when thinking about the past or doing something that reminds you of the past is a completely normal type of dissociation.

here reliving a memory (feeling like that memory is happening now, remembering something and feel the same emotions while seeing this memory in the mind is called having a flashback...which is different then dissociating. and sometimes it does share a form of losing track of time depending on length of the flashback and how emotionally charged the flashback and the person having the flashback..

losing time during the abnormal (not normal to the person) also varies. each person dissociates differently...they have their own process of dissociating, their own triggers that make them dissociate and depends upon which dissociative disorder that the person has..

examples...

losing time with depersonalilation disorder ...may....show its self as the person feeling numb, spacey so they dont notice the passage of time.

in me this happens when I am stressed out. I start feeling numb, spacey and not notice the passage of time like when I am dealing with a particularly stressful situation at work. Ill be sitting at my desk trying to get some paperwork which I have a deadline for done. I get so worked up about whether Im going to make that dead line that I dont notice through my numbness that 4 hours have gone by. I combat this from happening by making sure I take breaks, and use my breathing/grounding/....during stressful times at work.

losing time with derealization disorder....may...show itself as the person is in a state of mind where they are not participating with whats going on around them, they may not be feeling connected to anything outside their body so they are not aware that time is passing normally outside their body.

with me this happens when I am over tired. I end up feeling numb and spacey inside and just watching what is going on around me, not connected to anything thats going on outside my body. Since I know stress is the trigger I make sure I take time to breath, re ground/ground when I am under stress at work or home or where ever.

losing time with dissociative fugue shows itself in the fact that the person has no memory of relocating to a different location and starting a whole new life as someone else. from the time that they got triggered to the time when they become aware that they have a whole new life is just gone, no memory of anything that went on during that space of time.

this happened to me when an alternate personality took control and moved me out of my home and job and to a different place away from an abusive relationship that I was in. one day I became aware realizing for the past year I had been living a whole new life as someone else. This hasnt happened to me since my alters have all been integrated.

losing time with dissociative amnesia varies from person to person but the one common element from one episode to the next is that its usually the same triggering event in the persons life that they have no memory of...they get triggered by something and have no memory of that event...

This happened to me not too long ago when a friend and I were taking about one of my abusers was being released from prison soon. like any other time when this topic comes up I have no memory of the conversation. there we were sitting at my kitchen table playing a game and taking. suddenly someone said "Amanda its your turn, Earth to Amanda..." I looked around and realized 4 other people had made their play in the game since the last moment I had been focused on the game and conversation, with no idea what had happened during the conversation. It was my wife who later told me she had noticed this pattern that every time my abuser getting released from prison comes up my mind checks out. Now that I know what the trigger is we can prevent this from happening by using my breathing and grounding exercises.

time loss with DID is a bit different... the DSM calls it the inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. its a special form of memory problem...some people with DID have relatively little loss of time and others have a huge amount of time loss depending upon how many alters they have that are a special type of alter and how often these special type of alters take control. here in the USA the present standard diagnostics for DID say the person has to have at least two of these type of alters.. Some people can have more so time loss with DID varies with each person. since most of my internal system of alters was categorical (the dsm calls it distinct) I had a huge amount of time loss with almost every alter that took over. I had very little co consciousness abilities.

again only your treatment providers and you can say what is happening with in you...my suggestion if this continues to bother you consult with your own treatment providers or a medical doctor/mental health treatment provider in your off computer location. they can help you discover what this is in you, how to treat/prevent it from happening again.

[volatile]

edit- For some reason i read your topic but misread the entire thing. You said you remember looking a the trees. Were you just thinking? I've sat before and thought about something deeply for hours before. I don't think that's exactly losing time because you know what you were doing for that time, you were sitting on the computer. Also the computer and internet is very interactive so it's very simple to lose track of time while being that distracted.

[montanan4ever]

What you're describing is pretty much identical to how I would describe losing time for myself, yes.

[jax01]

I lose time in a couple of different ways. One is that "Time Warp" you've described. I blink and the clock has jumped ahead and hour or four. There is a different feel to it, than the "lost track of time" kind of loss.
The time didn't just slip by. It's gone. No memories, no sense of time passing.
I lose time in front of the PC, like anyone, but sometimes at night I "come to" as the computer is shutting down two or three hours after my last memory of checking the clock. Occasionally I find different things DL'd on to my drive I don't want there.
I frequently draw a total blank when asked things like "You're name?" Numbers, address, and so on. I can usually get it back with some kind of clue. So I check in my wallet.
I have lost days. Again there nothing there that says time has passed.
I had done drunk, and drugged, beaten up, and exhaustion to the point of hallucination. So I know the difference.
Any time loss scares me. But loosing entire days, or more than one, freaks me out.
So, um. Yeah that happens to me.


Jax