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  • Yes, everybody on AB. It's called AB addiction.
  • Yes, I have, often. I think some of the causes are: 1. You're doing something that's very engrossing, such as surfing the Internet, reading a good book, having a really enjoyable get-together with friends where the conversation (and wine) are freely flowing. 2. You're incredibly tired and don't even know what day it is. 3. You're high.
  • Low Batteries.
  • interesting question for me ---- as a result of an injury sometime ago, i have short term cognitive memory loss. after 4 - 6 months i do not recall much of anything, but it is not all bad, because i dont remember the bad days. generally speaking we loose the perception of time when we are so closely tied to what we are are doing at the moment we dont see time as an element of life
  • I have, mostly because I was so enthralled in what I was doing, time didnt matter to me.
  • I read most of the comments and I cannot tell you from the clinical point of view but the spiritual one.The concept of time and space is for the material realm.In the spiritual realm, time and space are relative things and do not affect the spirit or the self. That's why it is possible to compress or expand time there.If you believe in that then a different world opens out for you. But like you said it may be the medication. So where did the time go? I woke up from a deep coma and became a totally different person. I could do things which I never would have dreamt I could do!
  • I did once..I was going to the funeral of my best friend who killed herself. I was in the parking lot at work in my car and for awhile I just sat there because I didn't know why I was there..the parking lot attendant came over after a few minutes and asked if everything was o.k. That snapped me out of it. Scared me. The next day I went to see my doctor..I seriously thought I was having a nervous breakdown. Fortunately, that wasn't it. But it was very very scary..first and last time I ever experienced that! :)
  • Yeah, whenever I'm having a really busy day! I glance at my watch and do a double-take lol
  • I have had no perception of time for the last month, since my husband died. I don't know what day it is, what day things happened on, what order things happened in, and, unless I look or can see it being light or dark outdoors, know what time of day or night it is. I would assume extreme grief and stress are causing this.
  • Sure,when I am so engrossed in the work I do,I can easily lose track of time,some things are just that good to do.
  • Always when I am dancing....it is such a spritual and emotional experience for me that even those around me are lost to me....time is unnecessary so it loses it's importance..
  • Every time I get nitrous oxide at the dentist's office, time goes flyin' by. It's worth the extra cost for sure! ;-)
  • Depends on the frequency and the severity. In direct relation to mental illness, it is called a fuge. It happens as a direct result of personality splits and bouts of mania that cause time to become irrevelent. If it's just brain overload and momentary, it happens to the best and worst of us all.
  • Being on AB for too long. +5
  • You can become so involved in something that for that period of time you are oblivious to its passing.
  • When I was in training, I often went for 24 hours or more without sleep. When I finally did get to bed, I'd wake up not knowing: 1) Where I was; 2) What I was supposed to be doing; and 3) What time it was. The worst was during an ICU rotation. I got home at 2 p.m. after an overnight call, went to bed, and didn't get up again until noon the next day. When I woke up, it took me a minute to figure out whether it was day or night. (The fact that it was light outside didn't clue me in until several minutes had passed.) It took me even more time to figure out what day of the week it was. I laughed about it at the time, but looking back, it really is frightening how exhausted I was.
  • PCP :)
  • I've expierenced loss of the perception of time only when I thought it was a good idea to expierement with drugs. In my younger years I expieremented with the Drug Ectasay and my gosh. I was 3 hours late for work and I really could not remember doing anything that should take that long to be that late into work. Only I had known what I had done and I was so embarrassed to my ownself. People wonder why that slogan "Say No to drugs" sounds so corney and overstated....it's because of people like me that had such a bizarre expierence, not a bad one...just strange and scary that time just went on and on but I stayed in one place for 3 darn hours.
  • ...yes...when I am very focused...when I am with those I love...& when I sleep deeply...
  • It happened to me more often when I worked the overnight shift. I would live 'normal hours' on my days off and it was difficult to track time.
  • All the time. Sometimes I am so involved either in practicing the piano, drawing or painting, or writing that time means nothing. If I get hungry, I eat, if I get tired I sleep, but I just keep going on day and night working. What causes this? I think I am in my own little world.
  • i do at times. i have what i call "spells" where i get extremely dizzy, lose track of time and become confused. the docs have ruled out seizures/epilepsy. it's my opinion that it's a number of things that cause this in me. 1-tests have revealed a slight abnormality in my left temporal lobe. 2-loss of some lung function. 3-a leaking tricuspid valve in my heart. each one of these things alone would probably be unnoticed, but in combination things go a bit haywire. after almost 3 years of testing and drug therapy the docs finally agree with my hypothesis. now they just have to decide what kind of treatment to use, if any.
  • By being deeply focused on anything else.
  • Sure. When your brain is focused on a task, the perception of time dims.
  • I did once playing a game, i totaly lost track of time, 6 hours went by like it was 1.
  • yes. when i was once involved in an accident during a snow storm, my car slid up toward a car and bumped it. the 3 seconds in which my car moved to bumping it felt like 10 minutes. i was so keenly aware of everything in front of me and to my periphery! tap! in this case, this "lost perception of time" resulted in my being able to manipulate my vehicle so that it would safely slide. thankfully!!!
  • Me, right here on AB, cause Im here in SA and not on the same timezone as you over there! ;-)
  • Its weird, the other day I woke up and showered and for a moment, I could not remember wether it was day time or night time. It really freaked me out.
  • REM sleep or hemp.

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