Do Other PWP Have This Problem?
 

As of late, I've noticed that I am losing time. As long as I keep my mind busy I'm ok. When I take a break or just sit back and relax, I can lose a half hour to an hour. I don't think I'm falling asleep. I'll look at the clock and it can be an hour later. I don't remember watching anything on tv or hearing anything on the radio during this time. It's just time lost.

GregD

Lose Time
 

Hi Greg,

That is not a symptom I have experienced, though there are days I wish I could lose time, as the day drags along sometime. I don't doubt it is happening to you. The brain can be a dirty, little trickster and seems to get joy out of knocking our confidence out from under us.

Vicky

I sort of have a problem with time. When I think back to how long it took to do something or how much time passed between two events, I often have no idea. I'm usually not aware that I've lost track of time. Usually, someone will ask me about something I did and I can't remember how long it took or if I did it before or after something else.

Time
 

Hi Gregg,
I think you are probably asleep, but not realising you have been asleep. I do exactly the same, I watch TV then realise time has moved on and I think I have been awake. My wife assures me I have been asleep.
I would not believe her at first, I usually rember waking up, but now seem to just drift awake.
Ron

Hello Gregg, this is what I call self hypnoses, I have had this thing my whole life. My son have the same way " falling in thoughts", and now my granddaughter ,soon 2 years old,
her eyes become distant and she is lost in her thinking. My daughter in law tells me "he was supposed to do things in the house when she was outgoing back he sat at the same place,not doing anything but thinking have not registered the hours going ".
This is only when it is stress and specially lot of important things to decide and handle.
Driving the car , my brain often is surprised," am I here already ?"
Self hypnosis -

Annelise

These are the days that run together...
--The Exies, "These Are The Days" (2006)

I wonder if this phenomenon is a result of memory loss of sorts...

Entire days of mine have been "running together" as my encephalitic parkinsonian dementia gets worse, and I find it hard to believe that it's been 7 months since disability forced me to quit my job in Georgia and move in with my parents. If you asked me on the spot which month it was, I'd probably say September.

For the past 5 years it seems that time is slipping through my fingers. When I drop into bed at night I feel as if I just got up and that the day just whizzed by. I look at my "to do" list and make sure that a majority of the items have been completed. I feel as though I'm in a race against time.

time
 

For me, time seems to have slowed down. Unfortunately, I can't bottle it.

Lloyd

Lloyd --

I came up with somewhat of a bizarre correlation after reading about your experience... Given that Parkinson disease is a disorder of dopamine dysfunction, if you're not having any generalized dementia (like I am), maybe it's like you're having "akathisia" (a side effect of the dopamine-blocking antipsychotics). Before I had any parkinsonian syndrome, I was on the stuff for depression/bipolar and the thing drove me nuts (ironically!) as time seemed to stand still.

[EDIT: "The stuff" meant an antipsychotic, Zyprexa/olanzapine in my case.]

Thanks to everyone that has replied.
At least I know I'm not the only one losing time. I think I'm going to set up a camera in the place I usually take my brake and see if I can capture one of these episodes on film. Like I said, I don't think I'm going to sleep. We will see. Again, thanks for your replies.

GregD

Sense of time commonly messed up in PD...
 

...and this version of it is what I call Staring at the Wall. I'm a little more aware of shaking out of it than what you describe, but an hour can easily go by without my realizing it. :Red eyes:

Jaye