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3:21am July 6, 2014
Anonymous asked: Can you explain nonlinear time perception? It's OK if you can't but I have no idea how it works.

I don’t know if it’s related to my temporal lobe epilepsy, but I just don’t perceive time in the usual way.  I perceive things as connected through time, I perceive time as a place that I can’t always get to but it’s still a place, much of the time I don’t perceive time at all, during seizures time goes really wonky and repeats or shifts or skips and that kind of thing.  Throughout my life I’ve felt like the past and the future are just as accessible as the room next door, and I’d talk to my past and future selves constantly, and I still perceive time in ways that don’t really translate well into language.  A lot of the time I don’t perceive time at all and get confused by how it even works.  But basically I have trouble seeing time all going in one direction, I have trouble placing myself within time, I connect times in all these ways other than by the ‘flow of time’, and in general I perceive time more as jumping around if I perceive it at all.  I’ve been told my temporal lobes are weird, but I don’t know if that accounts for this.

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