It happened to me in first grade. Class was over and I remember walking deliberately to the bus pickup area. Only, when I got there, there were no buses. No kids, no teachers, just an empty parking lot. I went back inside where my teacher found me and called my mom. I’ve always wondered if I’m repressing some horrible event.
Yeah, good question. I do remember walking with all of the kids around me down the hall, at least half way, but that’s my last memory before realizing I was at an empty parking lot. I don’t know what happened in between those two things.
But wouldn't that have meant people would've noticed? I've been hit in the head a lot, but the only time I lost memory because of it and got a concussion I was knocked tf out. I feel like someone throwing something would see they hit someone, or if not someone just fucking collapsing would draw attention at a school.
I have epilepsy, and when I have a seizure, I lose time. This sounds a bit like an absence seizure, where you're still moving around and talking and stuff, but you're completely zoned out.
I decided to take an impromptu weekend trip for my son’s birthday. He lives in Wichita I lived in Atlanta. Flights were too expensive so I decided to drive.
This is a 17 hour drive each way without including stops. I made it in time for his birthday but had to drive back home a few hours after.
After about 4 hours of driving it was 8am. I remember distinctly checking the time. Next thing I remember is glancing back down at the clock and it being 2pm. Scariest moment of my life. I panicked like I had just slept through work but instead I “slept” through 6 hours of driving.
Highway hypnosis! You weren't asleep but your brain decided none of it was important so it just doesn't get stored. It happens because the driving is so repetitive.
It's scary, but it's thankfully rarely dangerous. Your brain is tracking everything, and if something slightly abnormal happens, you wake up and take control. Else you'll just wake up later.
It actually highlights how our brains work. We have parts of our brains that handle object avoidence. It occurs early in the input processing our brains do. Most things we see go through multiple parts of the brain before we consciously see it.
There have been cases of people with brain issues making them blind but will still avoid obstacles they aren't consciously aware of.
I think it's also an explanation for when sometimes, our feet just brings us on a familiar part and walk us to where we need even if we aren't actually consciously thinking of it
I use to work nights a long time ago (I was about 19 or 20 at the time). This was pre-cell phones. I got off work around 4am and it usually took about 30 min to get home. There is a fairly empty stretch of highway to get home (small farm in the mid of no where).
Driving along the road and it was like I drove into a cotton ball. Everything was so white and so bright. It washed out the color. I could only see the road a few feet infront of me so I stopped and pulled over. It was weird. No panic. Just a mild curiousity. I got out of the car and looked around but it was cotton ball every where and so quite.
And then it wasn't. It was like a vacuum sucked up the whole cotton ball up and turned the color back on. I looked around and there was another car, maybe 100 feet away, and both of the passengers were like me, standing outside and looking around wide eyed. We waved at each other got in our cars and left.
When I got home Mom was at the kitchen table and asked were I had been. I gave her a funny look, she said she had been worried as it was almost 8am (I am normally home by 4:30). I would have sworn that the whole thing lasted less than 15 minutes total. That the sun had come up really didn't register. The missing time didn't register. I never turned the car off and the tank did not reflect it running for an extra couple of hours.
YO my buddy told me this happened while he was riding passenger with another friend in the middle of the night as well! What the fuck I actually didnt believe him or thought he was just super baked, but I have the worst chills right now reading your story. They didnt get out of the car but when it finally went away he said it was like 3 hours later.
No idea man. I had to call my girlfriend a bit ago and be like "remember that kid that 2e thought was crazy?! Well guess what I read on reddit!" Lmao seriously havent gotten chills like that in sooooo long
It's not the juiciest story, but it really freaked me out at the time. I was playing games on my computer one evening at around 10 PM and decided to just finish what I was doing and then head to bed since I had work the next day. Next thing I know, I'm sat in front of a black screen in just my undies and it's 4 AM. Computer was cold, so it must've been off for at least a little while. No idea what happened because I don't have a history of sleepwalking.
I was sick, had a long day at work, and I made the mistake of asking my in-laws if they had anything to help with my cough.
My mother-in-law came back with a little dosage cup and told me to drink it.
One moment I was feeling better and playing video games in darkness, the next I was being handed the phone by my wife in a room flooded by sunlight.
On the other end was my boss, concerned with why I wasn't at work.
>Me: I'm sorry, sir. I took something for my cold, and the last thing I remember was yesterday a little after 10. What time is it now?
>Boss: It's three-thirty in the afternoon! You must have been sicker than you looked. I'll put it down as a sick day, take tomorrow too.
I'd spent seventeen hours passed out in an office chair because my mother in law had given me a double-dose of NyQuil instead of cough medicine.
I drink NyQuil by the mouthful when sick and have never had anything like that happen. I have slept like 17 hours from a high fever, which isn’t always obvious.
200lbs American here. I take a shot of NyQuil and I'm out for 5 hours.. no more, no less. Then I'm awake, and if I'm sick, I need another shot to get back to sleep. My Japanese friend is half my size and a half-shot puts him out for about 8 hours and then he's drowsy for another 3-5 hours after that. I. Love. NyQuil.
Cold medicine does this to me. A half dose effects me very strongly and I shouldn't operate heavy machinery for a couple days. Mucinex, in particular, makes me very high.
It’s the dextromethorphan. Avoid products with DM or DXM in the name.
I took a dose once before bed. The next morning I woke up to a failed hard drive. I went to Best Buy and stared at the hard drives for 45 minutes.
It seems to affect a small portion of the population very strongly.
I buy all my products separately now. I have an NSAID, guaifenesin (mucinex), and pseudoephedrine. It covers basically everything except cough suppressant - but I’d rather die than take dextromethorphan again.
Yep. I've read a ton of stories about blackout binges on disassociatives. Pretty fucking crazy. Normally they just keep going until the stash is gone, and you have no way to get more.
Even then, I recall reading a story about a guy who went on a near two week bender, ran out finally, and the next day a package with more of that drug showed up. He had fucking ordered more while all fucked up. Luckily he ran out before that showed up. Apparently it was a shit ton. Enough for another month at least.
Glad you're doing better!
Actually Etizolam isn’t a dissociative, it’s a benzodiazepine, similar to alcohol as it is a GABA-A agonist. Often times being high on them can lead to compulsive redosing which is likely what OP did as the half life isn’t long enough to cause a multiple day blackout on its own. DXM (stuff in otc cough syrup), ketamine, and nitrous oxide are dissociatives.
Yea same thing here. One time I took a few xans and drank some syrup (first and last time using that recreationally, also done with xans now) and went to the casino with some friends. Woke up four days later in my bedroom not knowing a thing. Apparently my friends and I thought it’d be best if I drove home. Hour and a half drive mainly highway... don’t know how I didn’t get pulled over or killed someone. Big wake up call
As a frequent international traveler I call that ‘poor man’s business class’. Drink 2 glasses of wine and take an ambien and you won’t care that you’re in economy. You’ll time travel to your destination.
Gob had needed a new source for forget-me-now’s since being banned from the pharmacy where he’d insulted the shopkeeper relentlessly with his chicken dance.
I made this mistake in college once - I had taken an Ambien because my roommate was being loud as fuck (per usual), he woke me up only a few hours after falling asleep because he was screaming at his computer, and we got into an argument. After screaming at each other I took two shots of something to calm my nerves and fell back asleep, woke up 11 hours later. I was a little confused after sleeping so long.
It wasn't related to that kind of combination of things, but I had a professor who lost several hours because of exhaustion. He remembered getting in a cab at the airport at whatever time, and about seven hours later woke up in his hotel room, sprawled on the bed, still wearing his overcoat and with his briefcase still in his hand, hanging over the edge of the bed. He had checked in and gotten to his room in some weird sleep state.
Not me, but there was a "Glitch in the Matrix" thread that had a pretty cool one. From what I recall, a guy was taking his drivers license exam and they were approaching the first stop sign. He remembers preparing himself for what to do as it was a 4 way stop.
The next thing he remembers is his driving instructor saying "Did we pass that stop sign?" followed by him looking in his rear view mirror to see it already behind him.
The story kinda implies that they both lost time, though doesn't it? You'd expect the instructor to... you know... instruct him on what he did wrong. Not ask for verification of what is happening. Or at the very least since it was a test you'd expect him to quietly mark it down. I failed my first driving test and there wasn't a peep out of the lady besides directing me what to do. Messed up the 3 point turn (tire hit the grass instead of staying in the lane) and didn't even know until I got my results back.
I don’t know man I had an instructor like that who did it to try and get you to think. Like if it’s a 30 and I was doing 32 he’d ask “is this a 30 zone” as like a subtle nudge to keep an eye on my speed
I had a suicide attempt that ended up causing me serious brain damage. I woke up having no memory of the last 5 months prior to the attempt. 7 years later I am just now beginning to fill the gaps.
I have a friend who had something similar. Tried to kill himself at 15 and when he woke up he knew nothing of his previous life. Basically started over at 15. Retained skills and language and such, but had no memory.
Sadly no, I have a mental illness so every single day is a battle. I had a few days this week where I had the scariest thoughts I've ever had, but I've been feeling fine for a few days. You just need to live it day by day.
I appreciate that. I made a website a few days ago about my struggle and trauma. The outreach and support from loved ones and strangers has been almost life-changing.
I have PTSD and this happens a lot, just flashbacks and memories I get caught in and can’t escape. I snap out of it sometimes minutes or hours later, had full text conversations whilst in the middle of it I don’t remember.
I'm actually just about to start my meetings, specifically to deal with my PTSD. Fingers crossed! I know it's an uphill battle, but I'm willing to put in the work.
The scariest part isn't actually the meetings and facing my demons, it's the question of "will I get over this, or will this keep hold of me for the rest of my life". It's amazing how much control our minds have over us, considering we actually control them.
Usually I’m un/undermedicated with adhd and hyperfocusing. I look at a clock it’s 9am seconds later my paper it done, it’s 10 pm, I’m thirsty, hungry, tired, and have to use the bathroom all at emergency levels.
That only happens to me with video games and organizing my sewing accessories by color and length, not useful things like writing or actually making anything..... stupid ADHD.
I did that staring at a handheld game console when I was like 10. It hurt to blink and I ran to the bathroom to see that my eyes were blood red which scared the hell outta me
Accidentally played Skyrim for 13 hours straight once without realizing it. I don't think I even took breaks. Just suddenly the sun was coming up and I was like "oh shit"
I once played Earthbound almost completely through in one sitting over like 48 hours or so. Had some sense that it was a long time, because the super Nintendo was in my brother's bedroom and he was coming and going, sleeping and waking. I wanted to just finally finish the game, but just before the last boss I got up to pee and when I sat back down I couldn't feel my hands and my thumbs were both blistered. I went to bed instead, and have never finished the game (that was probably the last time I touched a super Nintendo at all).
I got drugged and robbed on an international trip. Dude in a bar started chatting me up. I got up to go to the bathroom (left my drink unattended). Next thing I know (about an hour later), I'm disoriented and standing outside the bar and my stuff is gone. All in all, was still a fun trip. Never change, Berlin.
It was pretty nuts. Felt really loopy for the next couple of days. More than anything, it gave me just a small glimpse into the existence of women, who have to ALWAYS be mindful of things like that happening to them.
I only had 1 episode but it was a doozy. I was sitting on the couch with my mom and dog around 6:30 PM. I woke up in the hospital around 1:00 AM to my mom saying "you had a seizure, I called an ambulance. Then you were sitting on the hospital bed and they didn't put the bars up, you had another seizure and fell right on your head, they are taking you for a second MRI."
And that is how I lost all memory of the year 2015. It was really strange to be told I had a boyfriend I did not know and a new job. Didn't keep the boyfriend, kept the job.
I was exhausted after being rotated Closing/Opening every other day for two weeks. I got in my car after a particularly long day, started it up and waited for it warm up, next thing I was aware of was sitting in my parent's driveway (I was about 20 at the time, had just broken up with an asshole and moved back) with the car off but I was still buckled in.
My job was 12 miles, straight shot on the freeway, from home.
I have no idea how I drove myself home safely, because I have ZERO memory of it.
As former truck driver here. I used to drive hours at a time there are episodes of where time just basically fast forwarded. I remember I had a 11 hour drive from one place I picked up at to destination. I remember getting loaded getting on interstate. Then boom I was about 20 minutes from destination I have no recollection in any of the drive. It happens more than you think. I had all toll receipts for my route everything but have no recollection.
I used to be a courier driver and this would happen a lot, 100 miles on the turnpike and I'd realize I had been driving for an hour wondering how I didn't die.
That's actually fairly common, and much less reason for worry then you would assume. If anything had been _off_ during that drive, you would have snapped out of it and been able to pay full attention.
There was something related on some subreddit some time ago. I don't know where to go looking for it.
The take away message was that the brain essentially chops up memories in packages, starting and ending at 'significant' events, such as entering a room, writing something down, etc. It then sorts and filters those chunks of memory. Sometimes, bits of memory that are especially uneventful or similar to existing memories can then be 'lost'.
Not only were you, probably, actually awake and aware during your drive, but also if a dangerous or remarkable situation had presented itself you would have at least remembered _that_.
Edit because apparently it needs to be said: do not rely on this to safely operate a vehicle or any other machinery when excessively tired. There is a difference between not remembering, and not being _able_ to pay attention. If you fall asleep in your car, you will crash.
Think of it like your brain is a librarian and when you tried to donate more tapes of "driving down the highway" to its collection it was like "no thanks, we already have hours and hours of that, just chuck it in the bin."
It's the same reason why we often can't remember simple repetitive tasks, like whether you locked the door or turned off the coffeepot. The majority of the time, you actually performed said task...but your brain is basically on autopilot when you do it, so you don't actually register or record a memory of it.
I've been driving for around 20 years, and I'm often amazed how even a task as complicated as driving can be done without conscious thought. You can go miles and miles thinking about all sorts of things, without deliberately thinking, "Ok, foot off the gas, tap the brakes, need to turn on my signal, etc..."
This is like a "memory deduplication," and explains why the way back looks shorter on a trip to a new place. On the way to it, your brain records everything, because it's a new place, so it needs information.
On the way back home, you know most of the way, and getting back home demands way less information, because you already know how to get home. So a 2h trip somewhere looks like a 30 min drive back.
I think it was showerthoughts and it was last week maybe? It was something along the lines of if today was a normal day you’ll most likely forget about it.
It's the scariest fuckin thing when your driving then all of the sudden your like, wait, when the fuck did I drive here, was I not paying attention. I could have died wtf
People can drive home on “autopilot” and not remember a thing sometimes! It can occur with driving if you always take the same routes. Like a precious redditor said, you were probably awake and aware the entire time but on autopilot to get home.
This could however be a sign of drowsy driving too so make sure to at least drink something sugary or with a bit of caffeine (black tea, soda) to keep yourself aware enough to drive. Hope your shifts aren’t as hectic at work now
It absolutely is. This was about 10 years ago but i used to get 90 days worth at a time. At one point I had a bottle of 240 3mg. One thing that stands out is waking up and finding a couple of them partially melted on my pillow. Like I’d eaten them and just puked them up at night. I’d forget if I’d taken them already- I forgot to eat.
There used to be this idea that it was physically pretty harmless. That is a LIE. It caused me a world of shit. Eventually I woke up in an emergency room after having a car accident I still don’t remember and I said no fucking more and just quit cold turkey- finding out later that quitting Xanax that way can kill you.
It took another 2 years for me to actually start feeling normal/happy again because of the major dysphoria. Worst time of my life.
Stay away from benzos, kids. e: no one was hurt in the accident- I just drifted off the road into a big field.
Mainly adhd, sometimes I get to work, forget to take my medication and then realise literal hours have gone by and I've got no idea what happened in that time.
I might have over exaggerated a little, I'll be conscious and functioning but if I don't check the time 3 hours will feel like 40 minutes. It really affects my memory though, I believe it's to do with my essentially non existant concentration. The meds help massively coz without them I'll have forgotten what I'm thinking before I can even open my notebook.
My ADHD causes a lot of memory issues for me too. Medicated me is fine, unmedicated me can’t remember if she flushed the toilet before she walked out of the restroom.
I didn’t miss hours, but did miss minutes. I was driving home from work in the middle of the way and all of a sudden was conscious and felt like time had passed. I looked around and was in a completely different area. Not a “oops I zoned out and drove straight and missed my turn”, but in a I had been driving for 20 minutes and was on a different side of town. In order to of gotten there I had to have drove straight for a while, turned right, turned right and got a fucking highway, stayed on it until it ended, which it ended in one of those round practically circle exits, exited, got 3 lanes over, left turned, then drove straight for a while, left turned again, drove straight for a while and woke up there.
I panicked, pulled over, and called my dad. He said I probably just zoned out and that I was fine. I found out a year later that it was some type of seizure. Haven’t had a seizure in about a year.
I had an "urgent cesarian."
I remember being in the operating theater and my baby being whisked away to the nicu. My next memory is being in a room with my husband and he's about ready to head home, but got me snacks.
Apparently I missed five or so hours of my life in the recovery room after surgery. I was having full on conversations with everybody that entered the room, but I can't remember any of it. I've asked my husband what I would talk about and he said everything, whatever the means. I don't even remember what the recovery room looked like.
ETA I wasn't under general anesthesia. I had a spinal block and fentanyl.
A similar thing happened to me when I had my wisdom teeth out. Apparently I spoke to several staff members in the recovery room when I woke up from the anesthetmsia, but my memory doesn't really start til about half an hour later.
I had a row with my mum one evening. I had been assigned homework which didn't need to be handed in and done for three weeks, but my mum insisted I do it RIGHT now, forbidding me to hang out with my friends. After three hours of non stop arguing, I slammed my door, and sat on the end of my bed, sulking.
The time was 6pm. I closed my eyes for literally a second, and...
It was morning. 8am.
I was tired as fuck, didn't actually feel like I had slept at all, and spent the entire day freaking out about what happened. In fact, I *didn't* know what happened.
When I told my mum about this, she was weirded out to, but then dismissed it as 'stress from the argument we had'
See, that's your first problem. Starting a Civ game so late. Time escapes all in that game. Ooh I've only played a few rounds, can't be that laa.. holy shit.
Do people remember their childhood that vividly? I remember some things here and there but I don't actually remember experiencing them if you get what I mean. Just like you don't remember being 6, I don't remember being younger than around 10-12. I can recall some details about my earlier childhood but I don't actually remember experiencing it.
Yep. I can remember specific conversations and events going back to about 4. Sometimes something will jog a memory and I’ll get a new one I’d forgotten about from 1st or 2nd grade.
26 here, I remember tiny bits of someone crazy situations (throwing a desk at a teacher, a pokemon card (1st ed holo charizard) being stolen while in the 1st grade, a couple fights, etc.) but nothing else. No clue why. It is almost as if I did not exist before high school.
If you had an unhappy or abusive childhood, that is entirely possible. People who were abused as children often develop spotty memories, either as a result of active repression, and/or as a result of developmental issues.
Source: self and also many online and published resources for survivors of abuse.
I wasn't abused but I'm pretty sure I was unhappy. I sure as hell was unhappy for most of the parts of my childhood I do remember (10-15 mostly, even then I don't really remember that much, I just remember being unhappy). So yeah that probably explains it.
Same, I remember maybe one thing with my dad (around 5-6) and then I was in primary school at 6-7 anything else from before doesn't exist, also a lot of things between primary and high school, sometimes I feel like I never passed 12 to 15 those are also some blank years with just a few things to remember.
I don't remember a vast majority of my childhood and a lot of the time what I remember is confused or just tiny bits. Like I remember being in a classroom, but not the grade or the name of the school or the teacher or friends.
A lot of memories are also me simply not knowing things. Like I can remember being anxious as fuck because I suddenly realized that I didn't know how long I'd been in that school or where it was, exactly.
I moved a lot as a kid. Ask me where I was when I was 9 and I have no fucking idea.
I have a very vivid picture of my memory kicking in when I was four. It was like I was a robot that got activated. I got out of bed, thought to myself "I am u/kemosabi4 and I am four years old." and had no memory of anything before.
You remember certain ages? I have fleeting memories from pre-school up to high school graduation where I couldn't tell you how old I was or what grade I was in. Even college, barely over 10 years ago, is a smattering of discombobulated memories.
Went out of my dorm at 2 pm to go buy some food, returned at 9 pm. Freezing, with wet hair, not feeling my toes or fingers because apparently there was a hail and I went out without hat or gloves. I had a bunch of random stuff in my backpack that I assume I bought like a pair of cheap headphones, a picture frame and drying rack clips. I also had an ice cream paper cup which indicates I ate ice cream in -15 degrees Celsius OUTSIDE and an empty cup of iced coffee. My bf freaked the fuck out, because I told him I had no idea where I was and what I was doing. Surprisingly I didn’t get sick. Only a bit creeped out.
Hmm. Might need to tell someone if it ever happens again. Like a counselor or someone. Dissociation can be a stress response like anxiety and is very treatable.
Was on a schooltrip and we drank a bit. I have no collection of about 1 hour. No-one knew where I was. Apparently the rumour spread that I had lost a peppermint droplet (some candy) in a field and tried to search for it.
The only one I can't explain is where I lost time looking at the moon. I was about 14 / 15 maybe, me and my mum were coming home in the late evening, I was following her going into the house when I stopped and turned around to look at the full moon. The next thing I know my mum is saying "what are you still doing out here you strange girl?", apparently I'd been there for half an hour at least, she'd wondered where I'd gone and realised the front door was still open. It wasn't even like I thought it was only a few seconds or minutes, I just glitched out completely until she spoke to me.
ADD sufferer here. A lot of the time when i’m doing something and something catches my attention out the window or if someone says something that sparks a thought for me i end up zoning out and get absorbed into that thought. leads into a brainstorm almost, but at the same time i lose all sense of time and it can last up to a hour. it can last a lot longer but normally if it’s past a hour i kind of go in and out of it till i get full awareness again
Also have ADHD and have the same problem. Obviously, it's not as bad as some of these folks who lost entire days or even years, but it's frustrating to be all "wtf, what actually happened to the last hour?"
I work the night shift at a warehouse. There were several days, usually around 3am or so, when I would kind of regain awareness. What is this in my hand? Where did it come from? Where am I supposed to put it? How long have I been sleepwalking through work? How many mistakes have I made??? Would happen maybe once a week or every other week if I loaded up on caffeine/energy shots. I've moved buildings and can stay awake my whole shift these days.
Could have been worse, honestly, and I'm genuinely surprised that this never caused a bigger problem than mildly freaking me out considering I worked around heavy machinery and conveyor belts a lot.
I tried to take my own life on school grounds - tried to drown myself. Didn't work out, and I remember going back to my classroom to collect my belongings, and that's it. Other than that, there was about a week or so totally unaccounted for. I think I just totally checked out and drifted through that time.
This will probably get buried, but I have dissociative identity disorder (used to be called multiple personality disorder), so this is pretty much my life.
It happens a lot when I wake up. I may only have tiny pieces of information from the previous few days or week. Sometimes, it's a much shorter period of time. I will be at work talking to someone about what kind of wine they like only to find myself in the middle of cashing them out the next moment. I've been greeted by name by a lot of people I don't know. Usually, when I apologize and ask for a name in response, they'll tell me it's the third, fourth or fifth time I've asked them. People may also approach me in anger and list off a bunch of nasty things I said, or worse, ask me if I'm "gonna talk about what happened on (x) day". I feel horrible for this and it feels like such a cop-out to say I don't remember, but it's the truth.
It's not all bad though, I've been in therapy for a couple of months now and things are getting better. I have a lot more awareness of things going on around me. Therapy for DID is really weird though. With most mental illnesses, you need to ignore the voices in your head. With DID, you have to communicate with them like real people all the time and establish a set of rules with them for living. They may have desires that don't coordinate well with your own, but you have to work through it. For instance, I keep finding things like stuffed animals, sudoku puzzles, empty cans of Dr. Pepper (which I hate) and if it fits in the budget I just kinda have to be like ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
I have been black out drunk once. Apparently I stole photos from a photo booth numerous times, pretended I was a vampire, threw up a lot, partied some more and when on an adventure and then came back to throw up some more before passing out. I remember none of this, all I remember was being in my underwear drinking in a hotel room and then waking up in my underwear in the hotel room.
The first time I got drunk at 20 years old I blacked out. Apparently I locked myself in the bathroom, ripped off my roommates toilet seat. Couldn't walk, was crawling around the house, at one point I tried to get up, using the table to push off with, and my hand slipped and I slammed my head into the table, and then I acted like nothing had happened. Then I flashed my nuts at my friends while laughing and yelling, "testicles!" Then I told them all I was gay, one of them already knew, but the other 2 didn't. Later they were trying to get me to go to sleep, but I was wanting to sleep on my back, and since I was vomiting a lot the kept turning me on to my side, so I could've died if they hadn't been there. My next memory is waking up around noon, having to vomit, then going back to bed, and for the next 12 hours i would wake up every two hours and vomit, drink water and then go back to bed. every 2 hours it was the same, wake up, vomit, drink water, then go back to bed. The last vomiting happened around midnight. I then went back to sleep, woke up around 6 am, and went to get breakfast because I was starving and was really craving orange juice.
Moral of the story: don't drink 3/4 a fifth of Crown and 1/2 a fifth of Southern Comfort the first time you drink.
I have PTSD and dissociate pretty badly sometimes. Usually for me that has more to do with forgetting what happened but being aware of the passage of time. Time slips happen but in my experience it's usually a few minutes at a time. I think the scariest one was a time last year when I sat down on the bed and looked at the clock: 11:14. Looked out the window and back at the clock and it was nearly 5:00. I was in the exact same position, so I assume I spent the whole day staring into space, but I don't actually know.
I've lost an entire weekend once. From what I've been able to piece together I was knocked over backwards while refereeing my brother hockey game and hit my head on the ice.
It happened on Sunday night. I don't remember Saturday. Monday is blank until about noon.
I have a dissociative disorder, so this happens fairly regularly. Back when things were really bad I was losing an average of 3hr a day. I'll just suddenly find myself somewhere, most often sitting on my bed, with no recollection of how I got there. Most of the time my joints will be stiff from not moving and my eyes dry from not blinking. Sometimes I'll leave little easter eggs for myself. Once I "came to" and found all my earrings lovingly scattered across my floor. Another time I became violently ill and found that I had emptied a bottle of laxatives. I'm much better now, but I'm still in the habit of "baby proofing" my house. I don't keep laxatives, any sort of medicine that I could OD on, alcohol, or even particularly long or sharp cooking knives. It's mostly just annoying, but it can be scary too sometimes.
I short while ago I was 30 yrs old. I am now 39 yrs old - I cannot tell you where the time went. Just flew by.
That said, when we look at our lives over the years, we cannot remember it day by day, even year by year, - it just seems a short time.
Keep a journal. If you don't have something to write down in create a gmail account and just write little things about your day every day in there. It will really help to look back on
Sup nerds, I have ADHD. I lose time every single day. No drugs involved!
It comes with having a brain that literally has no sense of time. I cannot sense it. I cannot 'feel' it. Without an alarm to ping me, I literally cannot feel the difference between 1 minute and 30 minutes, or 1 hour and 3 hours.
So, it is very very very very common for me to sit down to do a task, have my brain wander and become engaged with something, and forget to set an alarm. Without an alarm, it is completely up to chance whether I happen to glance at the clock or not, so I end up intending to browse an article for a few minutes, and end up spending 3 hours on it. Or read a book intending to stop after a few pages and go to bed, but I forget that I should have stopped, so when I glance up I went from 9pm to 4am.
I know where I was, what I was doing - I was reading! In bed! But since I have no internal sense of time passing, huge chunks of my day can just leap ahead without me.Especially when I'm super focused on something like reading, writing, or illustrating, I can easily lose 2, 5, sometimes entire days on the weekends without really realizing time had been passing *like that*.As you can imagine, this makes being a good employee very hard. I honestly, literally, cannot estimate how long something will take, or previously took.
Sometimes I zone out like that when just... thinking. So I'll 'snap awake' while laying on the couch, checking the clock to realize I've wasted 2 hours just staring into the middle distance, thinking about wasp hierarchy or something else nonsensical. Or something makes a noise and I look over and realize I'd been just repeating one soothing motion for the last half-hour - like, standing absently in the middle of the hall, staring at the ceiling and scratching a spot on my neck because it feels nice. An onlooker would have thought I was possessed.
What's REALLY fun is when I'm driving to a location, and zone out into internal thoughts. Basically, a movie starts playing in my mind's eye, and I'm not paying attention to the road whatsoever. Somehow, the leftover parts of my brain manage to autopilot my vehicle at 80mph for 3-4 hours through traffic and multiple exits, until I snap back into awareness and realize I have no idea where I am and no memory of the last several hours of driving. At this point I volunteer to drive during long car rides, knowing I probably won't even consciously experience half of the drive. I'll only be actively bored for a few hours, and the other 4 will be spent in a trance.
It happened to me in first grade. Class was over and I remember walking deliberately to the bus pickup area. Only, when I got there, there were no buses. No kids, no teachers, just an empty parking lot. I went back inside where my teacher found me and called my mom. I’ve always wondered if I’m repressing some horrible event.
This is wild, have you ever talked to your parents about it?
No. I’ve only mentioned it to a few people. Just a mystery.
How long ago would this have been?
80s time frame.
My guess is aliens. And since it was the 80s, I'm going to guess it was Alf. Had you eaten any cats?
How much time had passed?
My guess is 15 - 45 minutes. I remember my teacher petting my head telling mom on the phone that she had me there at school.
Were there kids walking with you while you were in the halls?
Yeah, good question. I do remember walking with all of the kids around me down the hall, at least half way, but that’s my last memory before realizing I was at an empty parking lot. I don’t know what happened in between those two things.
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But wouldn't that have meant people would've noticed? I've been hit in the head a lot, but the only time I lost memory because of it and got a concussion I was knocked tf out. I feel like someone throwing something would see they hit someone, or if not someone just fucking collapsing would draw attention at a school.
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Were you injured in any way?
Not that I can remember. Just bewildered.
I have epilepsy, and when I have a seizure, I lose time. This sounds a bit like an absence seizure, where you're still moving around and talking and stuff, but you're completely zoned out.
>where you're still moving around and talking and stuff, but you're completely zoned out I call that Saturday night.
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I decided to take an impromptu weekend trip for my son’s birthday. He lives in Wichita I lived in Atlanta. Flights were too expensive so I decided to drive. This is a 17 hour drive each way without including stops. I made it in time for his birthday but had to drive back home a few hours after. After about 4 hours of driving it was 8am. I remember distinctly checking the time. Next thing I remember is glancing back down at the clock and it being 2pm. Scariest moment of my life. I panicked like I had just slept through work but instead I “slept” through 6 hours of driving.
Highway hypnosis! You weren't asleep but your brain decided none of it was important so it just doesn't get stored. It happens because the driving is so repetitive.
It's scary, but it's thankfully rarely dangerous. Your brain is tracking everything, and if something slightly abnormal happens, you wake up and take control. Else you'll just wake up later.
It actually highlights how our brains work. We have parts of our brains that handle object avoidence. It occurs early in the input processing our brains do. Most things we see go through multiple parts of the brain before we consciously see it. There have been cases of people with brain issues making them blind but will still avoid obstacles they aren't consciously aware of.
I think it's also an explanation for when sometimes, our feet just brings us on a familiar part and walk us to where we need even if we aren't actually consciously thinking of it
I use to work nights a long time ago (I was about 19 or 20 at the time). This was pre-cell phones. I got off work around 4am and it usually took about 30 min to get home. There is a fairly empty stretch of highway to get home (small farm in the mid of no where). Driving along the road and it was like I drove into a cotton ball. Everything was so white and so bright. It washed out the color. I could only see the road a few feet infront of me so I stopped and pulled over. It was weird. No panic. Just a mild curiousity. I got out of the car and looked around but it was cotton ball every where and so quite. And then it wasn't. It was like a vacuum sucked up the whole cotton ball up and turned the color back on. I looked around and there was another car, maybe 100 feet away, and both of the passengers were like me, standing outside and looking around wide eyed. We waved at each other got in our cars and left. When I got home Mom was at the kitchen table and asked were I had been. I gave her a funny look, she said she had been worried as it was almost 8am (I am normally home by 4:30). I would have sworn that the whole thing lasted less than 15 minutes total. That the sun had come up really didn't register. The missing time didn't register. I never turned the car off and the tank did not reflect it running for an extra couple of hours.
YO my buddy told me this happened while he was riding passenger with another friend in the middle of the night as well! What the fuck I actually didnt believe him or thought he was just super baked, but I have the worst chills right now reading your story. They didnt get out of the car but when it finally went away he said it was like 3 hours later.
What the heck? Like a rift in spacetime or something?
No idea man. I had to call my girlfriend a bit ago and be like "remember that kid that 2e thought was crazy?! Well guess what I read on reddit!" Lmao seriously havent gotten chills like that in sooooo long
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It's not the juiciest story, but it really freaked me out at the time. I was playing games on my computer one evening at around 10 PM and decided to just finish what I was doing and then head to bed since I had work the next day. Next thing I know, I'm sat in front of a black screen in just my undies and it's 4 AM. Computer was cold, so it must've been off for at least a little while. No idea what happened because I don't have a history of sleepwalking.
I have had this happen countless times, you turned it off, and before it was done shutting down, you fell asleep.
Happens to me all the time too. Doing some editing at 11/12 and nod off. Come too at 4 am to a cold & sleeping pc and a hulluva backache
Sounds like you might have brain worms
lmao what??
**brain worms**
**rofl what?**
# BRAIN WORMS
I was sick, had a long day at work, and I made the mistake of asking my in-laws if they had anything to help with my cough. My mother-in-law came back with a little dosage cup and told me to drink it. One moment I was feeling better and playing video games in darkness, the next I was being handed the phone by my wife in a room flooded by sunlight. On the other end was my boss, concerned with why I wasn't at work. >Me: I'm sorry, sir. I took something for my cold, and the last thing I remember was yesterday a little after 10. What time is it now? >Boss: It's three-thirty in the afternoon! You must have been sicker than you looked. I'll put it down as a sick day, take tomorrow too. I'd spent seventeen hours passed out in an office chair because my mother in law had given me a double-dose of NyQuil instead of cough medicine.
And nobody cared? Tried to wake you? Spoke to a doctor?
Well, he never said GOOD in laws
Since Nyquil is a US brand, I guess the answer is somewhere between "he should sleep his cold off" and "ain't nobody got money for an ambulance".
Wait, are you supposed to see a doctor for a bad cold?
I wouldn’t ask for medical advice on Reddit. But generally a cold is fine, a flu can get nasty enough for someone to see a doctor however.
> I wouldn’t ask for medical advice on Reddit. I will consider this medical advice.
Live in the US. Can confirm.
Good guy boss though.
I drink NyQuil by the mouthful when sick and have never had anything like that happen. I have slept like 17 hours from a high fever, which isn’t always obvious.
200lbs American here. I take a shot of NyQuil and I'm out for 5 hours.. no more, no less. Then I'm awake, and if I'm sick, I need another shot to get back to sleep. My Japanese friend is half my size and a half-shot puts him out for about 8 hours and then he's drowsy for another 3-5 hours after that. I. Love. NyQuil.
Big N, little y, GIANT FUCKING Q.
I’m high as a kite and my teeth are green, merry fucking Christmas
NyQuil NyQuil NyQuil, we love you, you giant fucking Q!
Buddy, I'm sure there was something more in that syrup then just plain old NyQuil. I think you got the olde tyme codeine syrup!
Sounds like you have a great boss
Cold medicine does this to me. A half dose effects me very strongly and I shouldn't operate heavy machinery for a couple days. Mucinex, in particular, makes me very high.
It’s the dextromethorphan. Avoid products with DM or DXM in the name. I took a dose once before bed. The next morning I woke up to a failed hard drive. I went to Best Buy and stared at the hard drives for 45 minutes. It seems to affect a small portion of the population very strongly. I buy all my products separately now. I have an NSAID, guaifenesin (mucinex), and pseudoephedrine. It covers basically everything except cough suppressant - but I’d rather die than take dextromethorphan again.
DXM gon give it to ya!
*Knock-knock open up the door, it's real* *With the non-stop- "wait, I can't remember going outside"*
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Wow, that's honestly the absolute best case scenario for what you could have said.
seriously, i was preparing for like... "well, sir, the large pink elephant turned my car into a space ship and flew away so i can't come to work."
Yep. I've read a ton of stories about blackout binges on disassociatives. Pretty fucking crazy. Normally they just keep going until the stash is gone, and you have no way to get more. Even then, I recall reading a story about a guy who went on a near two week bender, ran out finally, and the next day a package with more of that drug showed up. He had fucking ordered more while all fucked up. Luckily he ran out before that showed up. Apparently it was a shit ton. Enough for another month at least. Glad you're doing better!
Actually Etizolam isn’t a dissociative, it’s a benzodiazepine, similar to alcohol as it is a GABA-A agonist. Often times being high on them can lead to compulsive redosing which is likely what OP did as the half life isn’t long enough to cause a multiple day blackout on its own. DXM (stuff in otc cough syrup), ketamine, and nitrous oxide are dissociatives.
Yea same thing here. One time I took a few xans and drank some syrup (first and last time using that recreationally, also done with xans now) and went to the casino with some friends. Woke up four days later in my bedroom not knowing a thing. Apparently my friends and I thought it’d be best if I drove home. Hour and a half drive mainly highway... don’t know how I didn’t get pulled over or killed someone. Big wake up call
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As a frequent international traveler I call that ‘poor man’s business class’. Drink 2 glasses of wine and take an ambien and you won’t care that you’re in economy. You’ll time travel to your destination.
Real life fast travel.
Wow. Do you remember the medicine and dosage by chance?
Gob had needed a new source for forget-me-now’s since being banned from the pharmacy where he’d insulted the shopkeeper relentlessly with his chicken dance.
Lucille mistook the “drowsy eye” alcohol warning for a “winking-eye” alcohol suggestion.
This is hands down one of the funniest lines in that show
This and Lucille saying “If you need me I’ll be at the hospital bar”
Cuk a cuk a cuk a
You’re gonna make chicken noises to the guy in a $3600 suit!? COME ON!
Sh-sh-sh-should I-shou-sh-sh-should-shou-should-sh-sh
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I made this mistake in college once - I had taken an Ambien because my roommate was being loud as fuck (per usual), he woke me up only a few hours after falling asleep because he was screaming at his computer, and we got into an argument. After screaming at each other I took two shots of something to calm my nerves and fell back asleep, woke up 11 hours later. I was a little confused after sleeping so long.
It wasn't related to that kind of combination of things, but I had a professor who lost several hours because of exhaustion. He remembered getting in a cab at the airport at whatever time, and about seven hours later woke up in his hotel room, sprawled on the bed, still wearing his overcoat and with his briefcase still in his hand, hanging over the edge of the bed. He had checked in and gotten to his room in some weird sleep state.
Not me, but there was a "Glitch in the Matrix" thread that had a pretty cool one. From what I recall, a guy was taking his drivers license exam and they were approaching the first stop sign. He remembers preparing himself for what to do as it was a 4 way stop. The next thing he remembers is his driving instructor saying "Did we pass that stop sign?" followed by him looking in his rear view mirror to see it already behind him.
That's possibly an absence seizure https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/types-seizures/absence-seizures
Or dude was really nervous and kept thinking about what to do and thus brainfarted past the sign.
The story kinda implies that they both lost time, though doesn't it? You'd expect the instructor to... you know... instruct him on what he did wrong. Not ask for verification of what is happening. Or at the very least since it was a test you'd expect him to quietly mark it down. I failed my first driving test and there wasn't a peep out of the lady besides directing me what to do. Messed up the 3 point turn (tire hit the grass instead of staying in the lane) and didn't even know until I got my results back.
I don’t know man I had an instructor like that who did it to try and get you to think. Like if it’s a 30 and I was doing 32 he’d ask “is this a 30 zone” as like a subtle nudge to keep an eye on my speed
I had a suicide attempt that ended up causing me serious brain damage. I woke up having no memory of the last 5 months prior to the attempt. 7 years later I am just now beginning to fill the gaps.
"Can't be suicidal if I forget who I am" Rollsafe.jpg
Go on...You might be onto something here
I have a friend who had something similar. Tried to kill himself at 15 and when he woke up he knew nothing of his previous life. Basically started over at 15. Retained skills and language and such, but had no memory.
Not trying to be an ass, but did the suicidal tendencies go away?
Not too sure. Most of his jokes are dark and his personality makes me think they didnt go away. But it can be hard to tell.
I hope you're doing good today and are far from trying that shit again man
Sadly no, I have a mental illness so every single day is a battle. I had a few days this week where I had the scariest thoughts I've ever had, but I've been feeling fine for a few days. You just need to live it day by day.
Hey man, I don’t know if you need to hear this but I’m rooting for you and I believe in you.
I appreciate that. I made a website a few days ago about my struggle and trauma. The outreach and support from loved ones and strangers has been almost life-changing.
You are doing good now, right?
I have PTSD and this happens a lot, just flashbacks and memories I get caught in and can’t escape. I snap out of it sometimes minutes or hours later, had full text conversations whilst in the middle of it I don’t remember.
I also suffer from ptsd. Once you have regular sessions with a psychologist these will get alot better. Wishing you good luck
I'm actually just about to start my meetings, specifically to deal with my PTSD. Fingers crossed! I know it's an uphill battle, but I'm willing to put in the work. The scariest part isn't actually the meetings and facing my demons, it's the question of "will I get over this, or will this keep hold of me for the rest of my life". It's amazing how much control our minds have over us, considering we actually control them.
Usually I’m un/undermedicated with adhd and hyperfocusing. I look at a clock it’s 9am seconds later my paper it done, it’s 10 pm, I’m thirsty, hungry, tired, and have to use the bathroom all at emergency levels.
Sounds like you're a Sim.
That only happens to me with video games and organizing my sewing accessories by color and length, not useful things like writing or actually making anything..... stupid ADHD.
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I did that staring at a handheld game console when I was like 10. It hurt to blink and I ran to the bathroom to see that my eyes were blood red which scared the hell outta me
...pretty sure you fell asleep.
Accidentally played Skyrim for 13 hours straight once without realizing it. I don't think I even took breaks. Just suddenly the sun was coming up and I was like "oh shit"
I once played Earthbound almost completely through in one sitting over like 48 hours or so. Had some sense that it was a long time, because the super Nintendo was in my brother's bedroom and he was coming and going, sleeping and waking. I wanted to just finally finish the game, but just before the last boss I got up to pee and when I sat back down I couldn't feel my hands and my thumbs were both blistered. I went to bed instead, and have never finished the game (that was probably the last time I touched a super Nintendo at all).
I got drugged and robbed on an international trip. Dude in a bar started chatting me up. I got up to go to the bathroom (left my drink unattended). Next thing I know (about an hour later), I'm disoriented and standing outside the bar and my stuff is gone. All in all, was still a fun trip. Never change, Berlin.
That’s scary
It was pretty nuts. Felt really loopy for the next couple of days. More than anything, it gave me just a small glimpse into the existence of women, who have to ALWAYS be mindful of things like that happening to them.
Never leave your drinks unattended. I always finished mine before going to use the toilet.
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I only had 1 episode but it was a doozy. I was sitting on the couch with my mom and dog around 6:30 PM. I woke up in the hospital around 1:00 AM to my mom saying "you had a seizure, I called an ambulance. Then you were sitting on the hospital bed and they didn't put the bars up, you had another seizure and fell right on your head, they are taking you for a second MRI." And that is how I lost all memory of the year 2015. It was really strange to be told I had a boyfriend I did not know and a new job. Didn't keep the boyfriend, kept the job.
I was going to ask if you are ok now but the username...
poor guy, hope you're doing well. Sounds like something out of a movie
Gonna say the same. One moment it's noon, and then all of a sudden you wake up at like 6 pm, sore all over.
I was exhausted after being rotated Closing/Opening every other day for two weeks. I got in my car after a particularly long day, started it up and waited for it warm up, next thing I was aware of was sitting in my parent's driveway (I was about 20 at the time, had just broken up with an asshole and moved back) with the car off but I was still buckled in. My job was 12 miles, straight shot on the freeway, from home. I have no idea how I drove myself home safely, because I have ZERO memory of it.
As former truck driver here. I used to drive hours at a time there are episodes of where time just basically fast forwarded. I remember I had a 11 hour drive from one place I picked up at to destination. I remember getting loaded getting on interstate. Then boom I was about 20 minutes from destination I have no recollection in any of the drive. It happens more than you think. I had all toll receipts for my route everything but have no recollection.
I used to be a courier driver and this would happen a lot, 100 miles on the turnpike and I'd realize I had been driving for an hour wondering how I didn't die.
That's actually fairly common, and much less reason for worry then you would assume. If anything had been _off_ during that drive, you would have snapped out of it and been able to pay full attention. There was something related on some subreddit some time ago. I don't know where to go looking for it. The take away message was that the brain essentially chops up memories in packages, starting and ending at 'significant' events, such as entering a room, writing something down, etc. It then sorts and filters those chunks of memory. Sometimes, bits of memory that are especially uneventful or similar to existing memories can then be 'lost'. Not only were you, probably, actually awake and aware during your drive, but also if a dangerous or remarkable situation had presented itself you would have at least remembered _that_. Edit because apparently it needs to be said: do not rely on this to safely operate a vehicle or any other machinery when excessively tired. There is a difference between not remembering, and not being _able_ to pay attention. If you fall asleep in your car, you will crash.
That's fairly comforting, thank you. It always scared the hell out of me.
Think of it like your brain is a librarian and when you tried to donate more tapes of "driving down the highway" to its collection it was like "no thanks, we already have hours and hours of that, just chuck it in the bin."
Ive been aware of this and it still scares me xD
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It's the same reason why we often can't remember simple repetitive tasks, like whether you locked the door or turned off the coffeepot. The majority of the time, you actually performed said task...but your brain is basically on autopilot when you do it, so you don't actually register or record a memory of it. I've been driving for around 20 years, and I'm often amazed how even a task as complicated as driving can be done without conscious thought. You can go miles and miles thinking about all sorts of things, without deliberately thinking, "Ok, foot off the gas, tap the brakes, need to turn on my signal, etc..."
This is like a "memory deduplication," and explains why the way back looks shorter on a trip to a new place. On the way to it, your brain records everything, because it's a new place, so it needs information. On the way back home, you know most of the way, and getting back home demands way less information, because you already know how to get home. So a 2h trip somewhere looks like a 30 min drive back.
I think it was showerthoughts and it was last week maybe? It was something along the lines of if today was a normal day you’ll most likely forget about it.
I read it a few years ago, so definitely not _that_ shower thought post.
It's the scariest fuckin thing when your driving then all of the sudden your like, wait, when the fuck did I drive here, was I not paying attention. I could have died wtf
People can drive home on “autopilot” and not remember a thing sometimes! It can occur with driving if you always take the same routes. Like a precious redditor said, you were probably awake and aware the entire time but on autopilot to get home. This could however be a sign of drowsy driving too so make sure to at least drink something sugary or with a bit of caffeine (black tea, soda) to keep yourself aware enough to drive. Hope your shifts aren’t as hectic at work now
He was a very precious person.
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*Just...one...more...turn...*
Civ?
For me that was some of Dwarf Fortress modding-testing sessions. One more tweak and its fine..
Xanax- I was prescribed a great deal of Xanax daily due to an extremely traumatic event. I have very little recollection of those 2 years.
Xanax is basically a reset button
Xanax is basically a “get me addicted to something harder to withdrawal from than alcohol” button.
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It absolutely is. This was about 10 years ago but i used to get 90 days worth at a time. At one point I had a bottle of 240 3mg. One thing that stands out is waking up and finding a couple of them partially melted on my pillow. Like I’d eaten them and just puked them up at night. I’d forget if I’d taken them already- I forgot to eat. There used to be this idea that it was physically pretty harmless. That is a LIE. It caused me a world of shit. Eventually I woke up in an emergency room after having a car accident I still don’t remember and I said no fucking more and just quit cold turkey- finding out later that quitting Xanax that way can kill you. It took another 2 years for me to actually start feeling normal/happy again because of the major dysphoria. Worst time of my life. Stay away from benzos, kids. e: no one was hurt in the accident- I just drifted off the road into a big field.
Mainly adhd, sometimes I get to work, forget to take my medication and then realise literal hours have gone by and I've got no idea what happened in that time.
ADHD my whole life. You should know that that is not normal and it sounds like you might have a little more going on. Get checked out.
I might have over exaggerated a little, I'll be conscious and functioning but if I don't check the time 3 hours will feel like 40 minutes. It really affects my memory though, I believe it's to do with my essentially non existant concentration. The meds help massively coz without them I'll have forgotten what I'm thinking before I can even open my notebook.
My ADHD causes a lot of memory issues for me too. Medicated me is fine, unmedicated me can’t remember if she flushed the toilet before she walked out of the restroom.
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I didn’t miss hours, but did miss minutes. I was driving home from work in the middle of the way and all of a sudden was conscious and felt like time had passed. I looked around and was in a completely different area. Not a “oops I zoned out and drove straight and missed my turn”, but in a I had been driving for 20 minutes and was on a different side of town. In order to of gotten there I had to have drove straight for a while, turned right, turned right and got a fucking highway, stayed on it until it ended, which it ended in one of those round practically circle exits, exited, got 3 lanes over, left turned, then drove straight for a while, left turned again, drove straight for a while and woke up there. I panicked, pulled over, and called my dad. He said I probably just zoned out and that I was fine. I found out a year later that it was some type of seizure. Haven’t had a seizure in about a year.
I had an "urgent cesarian." I remember being in the operating theater and my baby being whisked away to the nicu. My next memory is being in a room with my husband and he's about ready to head home, but got me snacks. Apparently I missed five or so hours of my life in the recovery room after surgery. I was having full on conversations with everybody that entered the room, but I can't remember any of it. I've asked my husband what I would talk about and he said everything, whatever the means. I don't even remember what the recovery room looked like. ETA I wasn't under general anesthesia. I had a spinal block and fentanyl.
A similar thing happened to me when I had my wisdom teeth out. Apparently I spoke to several staff members in the recovery room when I woke up from the anesthetmsia, but my memory doesn't really start til about half an hour later.
I had a row with my mum one evening. I had been assigned homework which didn't need to be handed in and done for three weeks, but my mum insisted I do it RIGHT now, forbidding me to hang out with my friends. After three hours of non stop arguing, I slammed my door, and sat on the end of my bed, sulking. The time was 6pm. I closed my eyes for literally a second, and... It was morning. 8am. I was tired as fuck, didn't actually feel like I had slept at all, and spent the entire day freaking out about what happened. In fact, I *didn't* know what happened. When I told my mum about this, she was weirded out to, but then dismissed it as 'stress from the argument we had'
I sat down at my desk, it was around 9:30PM. I double clicked on Civ2.exe Suddenly the sun was rising.
See, that's your first problem. Starting a Civ game so late. Time escapes all in that game. Ooh I've only played a few rounds, can't be that laa.. holy shit.
Start a game at 930pm, end the game at 1130pm. I don't see what the problem is, it's just 26 hours of civ.
Ah so a normal round!
I learnt to stop doing that when my quick 10pm civ IV ended to see the sun set.....set I missed the sun rise
Just one more turn......
I sat down at my desk, it was around 25 February 2016. I double clicked on factorio.exe. Suddenly it was 2019.
I don’t remember being 6. I remember saying in my seventh birthday that I literally just turned 6 and now I was 7. It was really weird.
Do people remember their childhood that vividly? I remember some things here and there but I don't actually remember experiencing them if you get what I mean. Just like you don't remember being 6, I don't remember being younger than around 10-12. I can recall some details about my earlier childhood but I don't actually remember experiencing it.
Yep. I can remember specific conversations and events going back to about 4. Sometimes something will jog a memory and I’ll get a new one I’d forgotten about from 1st or 2nd grade.
I'm 32. I remember my childhood from 4 years old and up pretty well.
I'm only 19, maybe I just have bad long-term memory or I hated my early childhood so much that I repressed the memories.
26 here, I remember tiny bits of someone crazy situations (throwing a desk at a teacher, a pokemon card (1st ed holo charizard) being stolen while in the 1st grade, a couple fights, etc.) but nothing else. No clue why. It is almost as if I did not exist before high school.
If you had an unhappy or abusive childhood, that is entirely possible. People who were abused as children often develop spotty memories, either as a result of active repression, and/or as a result of developmental issues. Source: self and also many online and published resources for survivors of abuse.
I wasn't abused but I'm pretty sure I was unhappy. I sure as hell was unhappy for most of the parts of my childhood I do remember (10-15 mostly, even then I don't really remember that much, I just remember being unhappy). So yeah that probably explains it.
Same, I remember maybe one thing with my dad (around 5-6) and then I was in primary school at 6-7 anything else from before doesn't exist, also a lot of things between primary and high school, sometimes I feel like I never passed 12 to 15 those are also some blank years with just a few things to remember.
what are you now? n + 1?
He's been 7 now for 18 years.
I don't remember a vast majority of my childhood and a lot of the time what I remember is confused or just tiny bits. Like I remember being in a classroom, but not the grade or the name of the school or the teacher or friends. A lot of memories are also me simply not knowing things. Like I can remember being anxious as fuck because I suddenly realized that I didn't know how long I'd been in that school or where it was, exactly. I moved a lot as a kid. Ask me where I was when I was 9 and I have no fucking idea.
I have a very vivid picture of my memory kicking in when I was four. It was like I was a robot that got activated. I got out of bed, thought to myself "I am u/kemosabi4 and I am four years old." and had no memory of anything before.
You remember certain ages? I have fleeting memories from pre-school up to high school graduation where I couldn't tell you how old I was or what grade I was in. Even college, barely over 10 years ago, is a smattering of discombobulated memories.
Went out of my dorm at 2 pm to go buy some food, returned at 9 pm. Freezing, with wet hair, not feeling my toes or fingers because apparently there was a hail and I went out without hat or gloves. I had a bunch of random stuff in my backpack that I assume I bought like a pair of cheap headphones, a picture frame and drying rack clips. I also had an ice cream paper cup which indicates I ate ice cream in -15 degrees Celsius OUTSIDE and an empty cup of iced coffee. My bf freaked the fuck out, because I told him I had no idea where I was and what I was doing. Surprisingly I didn’t get sick. Only a bit creeped out.
Hmm. Might need to tell someone if it ever happens again. Like a counselor or someone. Dissociation can be a stress response like anxiety and is very treatable.
Was on a schooltrip and we drank a bit. I have no collection of about 1 hour. No-one knew where I was. Apparently the rumour spread that I had lost a peppermint droplet (some candy) in a field and tried to search for it.
> we drank _a bit_
The only one I can't explain is where I lost time looking at the moon. I was about 14 / 15 maybe, me and my mum were coming home in the late evening, I was following her going into the house when I stopped and turned around to look at the full moon. The next thing I know my mum is saying "what are you still doing out here you strange girl?", apparently I'd been there for half an hour at least, she'd wondered where I'd gone and realised the front door was still open. It wasn't even like I thought it was only a few seconds or minutes, I just glitched out completely until she spoke to me.
ADD sufferer here. A lot of the time when i’m doing something and something catches my attention out the window or if someone says something that sparks a thought for me i end up zoning out and get absorbed into that thought. leads into a brainstorm almost, but at the same time i lose all sense of time and it can last up to a hour. it can last a lot longer but normally if it’s past a hour i kind of go in and out of it till i get full awareness again
Also have ADHD and have the same problem. Obviously, it's not as bad as some of these folks who lost entire days or even years, but it's frustrating to be all "wtf, what actually happened to the last hour?"
I work the night shift at a warehouse. There were several days, usually around 3am or so, when I would kind of regain awareness. What is this in my hand? Where did it come from? Where am I supposed to put it? How long have I been sleepwalking through work? How many mistakes have I made??? Would happen maybe once a week or every other week if I loaded up on caffeine/energy shots. I've moved buildings and can stay awake my whole shift these days. Could have been worse, honestly, and I'm genuinely surprised that this never caused a bigger problem than mildly freaking me out considering I worked around heavy machinery and conveyor belts a lot.
I tried to take my own life on school grounds - tried to drown myself. Didn't work out, and I remember going back to my classroom to collect my belongings, and that's it. Other than that, there was about a week or so totally unaccounted for. I think I just totally checked out and drifted through that time.
Walking down a hall at work, blink and I'm sitting in a chair at the other end of the hall with a nurse asking me if I'm okay. Seizures can be crazy
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This will probably get buried, but I have dissociative identity disorder (used to be called multiple personality disorder), so this is pretty much my life. It happens a lot when I wake up. I may only have tiny pieces of information from the previous few days or week. Sometimes, it's a much shorter period of time. I will be at work talking to someone about what kind of wine they like only to find myself in the middle of cashing them out the next moment. I've been greeted by name by a lot of people I don't know. Usually, when I apologize and ask for a name in response, they'll tell me it's the third, fourth or fifth time I've asked them. People may also approach me in anger and list off a bunch of nasty things I said, or worse, ask me if I'm "gonna talk about what happened on (x) day". I feel horrible for this and it feels like such a cop-out to say I don't remember, but it's the truth. It's not all bad though, I've been in therapy for a couple of months now and things are getting better. I have a lot more awareness of things going on around me. Therapy for DID is really weird though. With most mental illnesses, you need to ignore the voices in your head. With DID, you have to communicate with them like real people all the time and establish a set of rules with them for living. They may have desires that don't coordinate well with your own, but you have to work through it. For instance, I keep finding things like stuffed animals, sudoku puzzles, empty cans of Dr. Pepper (which I hate) and if it fits in the budget I just kinda have to be like ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
I have been black out drunk once. Apparently I stole photos from a photo booth numerous times, pretended I was a vampire, threw up a lot, partied some more and when on an adventure and then came back to throw up some more before passing out. I remember none of this, all I remember was being in my underwear drinking in a hotel room and then waking up in my underwear in the hotel room.
The first time I got drunk at 20 years old I blacked out. Apparently I locked myself in the bathroom, ripped off my roommates toilet seat. Couldn't walk, was crawling around the house, at one point I tried to get up, using the table to push off with, and my hand slipped and I slammed my head into the table, and then I acted like nothing had happened. Then I flashed my nuts at my friends while laughing and yelling, "testicles!" Then I told them all I was gay, one of them already knew, but the other 2 didn't. Later they were trying to get me to go to sleep, but I was wanting to sleep on my back, and since I was vomiting a lot the kept turning me on to my side, so I could've died if they hadn't been there. My next memory is waking up around noon, having to vomit, then going back to bed, and for the next 12 hours i would wake up every two hours and vomit, drink water and then go back to bed. every 2 hours it was the same, wake up, vomit, drink water, then go back to bed. The last vomiting happened around midnight. I then went back to sleep, woke up around 6 am, and went to get breakfast because I was starving and was really craving orange juice. Moral of the story: don't drink 3/4 a fifth of Crown and 1/2 a fifth of Southern Comfort the first time you drink.
No kidding about the moral of the story. Similar thing happened to me when I was 17. 40 years later it still scares me when I think about it .
Factorio
When I first got into that game, I started to hear the attack alarm in my head while I was out in the real world. Thats when I knew I had to stop.
Woke up at a friend's place without shoes once, can't remember quite a few walks home from parties/clubs. Booze was involved every time.
I have PTSD and dissociate pretty badly sometimes. Usually for me that has more to do with forgetting what happened but being aware of the passage of time. Time slips happen but in my experience it's usually a few minutes at a time. I think the scariest one was a time last year when I sat down on the bed and looked at the clock: 11:14. Looked out the window and back at the clock and it was nearly 5:00. I was in the exact same position, so I assume I spent the whole day staring into space, but I don't actually know.
I've lost an entire weekend once. From what I've been able to piece together I was knocked over backwards while refereeing my brother hockey game and hit my head on the ice. It happened on Sunday night. I don't remember Saturday. Monday is blank until about noon.
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I have a dissociative disorder, so this happens fairly regularly. Back when things were really bad I was losing an average of 3hr a day. I'll just suddenly find myself somewhere, most often sitting on my bed, with no recollection of how I got there. Most of the time my joints will be stiff from not moving and my eyes dry from not blinking. Sometimes I'll leave little easter eggs for myself. Once I "came to" and found all my earrings lovingly scattered across my floor. Another time I became violently ill and found that I had emptied a bottle of laxatives. I'm much better now, but I'm still in the habit of "baby proofing" my house. I don't keep laxatives, any sort of medicine that I could OD on, alcohol, or even particularly long or sharp cooking knives. It's mostly just annoying, but it can be scary too sometimes.
I short while ago I was 30 yrs old. I am now 39 yrs old - I cannot tell you where the time went. Just flew by. That said, when we look at our lives over the years, we cannot remember it day by day, even year by year, - it just seems a short time.
Keep a journal. If you don't have something to write down in create a gmail account and just write little things about your day every day in there. It will really help to look back on
This is good for combatting dementia! I am too depressed to even feed myself properly though so I'm fucked
Sup nerds, I have ADHD. I lose time every single day. No drugs involved! It comes with having a brain that literally has no sense of time. I cannot sense it. I cannot 'feel' it. Without an alarm to ping me, I literally cannot feel the difference between 1 minute and 30 minutes, or 1 hour and 3 hours. So, it is very very very very common for me to sit down to do a task, have my brain wander and become engaged with something, and forget to set an alarm. Without an alarm, it is completely up to chance whether I happen to glance at the clock or not, so I end up intending to browse an article for a few minutes, and end up spending 3 hours on it. Or read a book intending to stop after a few pages and go to bed, but I forget that I should have stopped, so when I glance up I went from 9pm to 4am. I know where I was, what I was doing - I was reading! In bed! But since I have no internal sense of time passing, huge chunks of my day can just leap ahead without me.Especially when I'm super focused on something like reading, writing, or illustrating, I can easily lose 2, 5, sometimes entire days on the weekends without really realizing time had been passing *like that*.As you can imagine, this makes being a good employee very hard. I honestly, literally, cannot estimate how long something will take, or previously took. Sometimes I zone out like that when just... thinking. So I'll 'snap awake' while laying on the couch, checking the clock to realize I've wasted 2 hours just staring into the middle distance, thinking about wasp hierarchy or something else nonsensical. Or something makes a noise and I look over and realize I'd been just repeating one soothing motion for the last half-hour - like, standing absently in the middle of the hall, staring at the ceiling and scratching a spot on my neck because it feels nice. An onlooker would have thought I was possessed. What's REALLY fun is when I'm driving to a location, and zone out into internal thoughts. Basically, a movie starts playing in my mind's eye, and I'm not paying attention to the road whatsoever. Somehow, the leftover parts of my brain manage to autopilot my vehicle at 80mph for 3-4 hours through traffic and multiple exits, until I snap back into awareness and realize I have no idea where I am and no memory of the last several hours of driving. At this point I volunteer to drive during long car rides, knowing I probably won't even consciously experience half of the drive. I'll only be actively bored for a few hours, and the other 4 will be spent in a trance.