[venusss]

Trigger just in case. Abnormal perception of reality is discussed.




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I have problems with perception of time. It just doesn't seem lineral for me. When I look back at my life, I often have trouble placing each events on timeline. I remember they happened and quite vividly, but I sometimes have trouble realizing what happened when and in what order things happened.

Another thing, maybe related, maybe not - seems to be at the times my time-space orientation is extremely disoriented. It is brief (aka I usually know what year is it and where I am), but at times I seem to flip in and out. It's like there were loopholes... maybe it could be called a flashback, because for brief moment I recall seemigly unrelated event and I feel well... out there.

Anybody else has a strange experience with time flow?

[Perna]

I had the events of my first 5-8 years all messed up because that is how I felt at the time, all messed up. Therapy was able to straighten out that flow quite a bit, as I learned the order things actually happened in and undid some psychological merging/switching of events I'd done.

I use to get "jerked back" in time by sights, smells, memories, and other sensory things happening. It was like I was grabbed by the scruff of my neck back 20-30 years suddenly and was not a pleasant experience! I'd have to scramble in my head to figure out where I was or what had grabbed me, etc. That too got straightened out with therapy so it doesn't happen anymore. I don't miss that; I use to complain to my therapist because I felt so helpless to know when it would happen or what had happened and was always afraid I'd get "stuck" somewhere else.

[Smurf&Turf]

I sometimes have memories so vivid I feel like I'm living them. It's quite unsettling coming back to (what I believe is) present reality.
I get A LOT of gaps in my memory - if that's at all relevant - and I experience deja vu way too frequently.

[Switch]

I have really accurate vivid memories that don't flow right. Time doesn't flow right for me normally. Minutes will feel like hours, hours like a few seconds, that sort of thing. I will think I sat down for three hours, but really it's been 15 minutes, or I'll think I slept an extra hour, but then realise 5 min have gone by. Stuff like that.

As for my past, I cant recal anything in way of time. I'll know it was "summer" because the memory takes place in a warm, summery day, but thats it. I can also give stuff in ways of what grade I was in, but not how old I was. I won't have a clue how old I was! But it had to have taken place in grade 6 because it was the first year living in my home town. Or it had to be grade 11 because it was the first year of a new school year, and these people were there. The only reason I think I can do that is because I've moved so much, and can remember what grades I was where.

I also "slip" from reality sometimes, but it's not anything like a flashback for me. It's more just a no there period of time where I'm just... not there? That sounds lame...

All the ****ing time, hahaha.

[garywo2000]

I sometimes have memories so vivid I feel like I'm living them.

[Confusedinomicon]

I don't have a perception of linear time. Everything seemed to happen when I was 8, 10, 12 or 15...

I don't remember a lot of things either, just big events. (Like getting my wisdom teeth pulled)

My memory has always been like this though and I don't have super vivid memories either.

[femmefire]

I have problems with remembering time, sequence, order, etc., but usually remember events vividly if I felt threatened in any way. It's almost like a hyper-memory if that makes any sense.