Poll Do You Have A Poor Time Sense?

[Bluerose]

I’ve got day and night and that’s it. Occasionally I might get curious as to what time it is.

 

[Abstract]

I don't seem to have any reliable sense of time at all. As far as I am aware (I have big gaps in my past) I have always had a problem with time and thought it was just part of me until recent years when I discovered dissociation, realised I did it, worked on it and had times when it was much more controlled.

If I run a bath I have to set an alarm to tell me when to check it. The same with cooking food or doing anything. I normally try to have double checks for important things. I struggle to remember how many years I have been somewhere or have a sense of months that have passed. Appointments would not happen if I did not have special measures in place. I guess it's possible that the huge gaps in my past are related to this but just more complete.

For me this is mostly about dissociation. It seems I am very different when grounded.

 

[Survivor2Thriver]

I can tell what time it is without looking at a clock. The date? Never. LOL

 

[Bedbug]

I have always had a good sense of time - before the abuse, after the abuse and after recovering memories of the abuse - in that I have never worn a watch and, if asked, could usually tell you the time with pretty good accuracy.

However, ever since the abuse I have lost chunks of time to blackouts and flashbacks. Coming out of them, I realise that time has passed and can even have a pretty good guess at how much but, for a while, time doesn't exist (more so with blackouts than flashbacks as I tend to experience my flashbacks as if the past is overlaid on the present, both existing at once, so there is some sense of present time even when I am reliving a past time).

When I first started to recover my memories and was diagnosed with PTSD, I had a very strange sense of time. I still knew the time quite accurately without looking at a clock, but I didn't always feel part of it. My body wasn't quite "real". I was aware of the passage of time, but only because of all the cues that this body was aware of. It was an odd feeling which is less frequent now.

I have also found that time seems to have passed very quickly. The past two months have felt more like two weeks. They say time flies when you're having fun, so I would have expected the opposite. My time certainly hasn't been fun.

Perhaps following on from this, I find that things happen too quickly for me now. I need to take much longer to complete a task than I used to. I just can't take in information as fast as I used to. I even walk slower.

And then there's the forgetfulness. I guess that can be seen as a failing in my sense of time.

 

[amethist]

My husband is terrible with time. His ten minutes turn into 3 hours in the blink of an eye.

 

[Changing4Best]

My answer would have been sometimes. I'll look upat the clock and be surprised. Usually when I am engrossed or really focused on something, something will surprise me, like yesterday when my friends texted me and said "We're here". They were here to give me a ride and I didn't notice it was already time for them to pick me up, surprise!

Other times I'll have a perfect sense of time, realizing when it is time to do a specific thing.

None the less, since I sometimes forget that it is time, I have all the alarms set on my cell phone, so that it tells me each day when it is MEDS TIME and to take my dog out.