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A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Re: A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Post by otikik »

LoganDark wrote: post #41
reitanqild wrote: post #15

ADHD is sometimes wittily described as time dyslexia, and while I haven't met anyone who has described symptoms as bad as this and also know friends with ADHD who play music seemingly effortlessly, this article was still very interesting to me. I have understood and it also observed that meditation can help somewhat, and I wonder what else can help for people otherwise function well who struggle with time?

> ADHD is sometimes wittily described as time dyslexia As someone with ADHD, this wildly misrepresents the actual disorder. ADHD itself has nothing to do with time, it has to do with executive function . Someone with ADHD can try to will themselves into doing something and simply not be able to. They'll try to make a command, and their body or brain will not listen to them. It will completely refuse to do what they t…

ADHD presents a variety of symptoms, not the same ones for everyone. The “H” (“hyperactive”) part in particular often doesn’t manifest (and that’s how many children become undiagnosed adults- hyperactivity is easier to spot). If you don’t have time dislexia, that doesn’t mean that others don’t.

Re: A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Post by eastbound »

et1337 wrote: post #43

I think it's interesting that HN in particular seems to be fascinated by brain injuries, myself included. Losing brain functionality is a scary thought for people who enjoy using their brains all day. edit: also I find my HN comment history to be a really good check on my perception of time. It's weird to see the random thoughts I wrote out in my down time. I ALWAYS think, "wow that was 3 months ago?"

I really think we’ll discover that programming is toxic for the brain. Mechanisms:

- Intense loss of memory, inability to remember names and faces, since everything can be written down all the time,

- Periods of flow interrupted by compilation time, change of topic (looking at the web), within a lot of stress (want to deliver the feature, excited to set up the architecture),

- Long hours working, sometimes into the night, thus grave loss of sleep,

- Sedentary intellectual-only work, no use of the body, and more importantly no use of facial features, no smile, no talking for hours and even years long.

- Eventually, social networks top up all those with intense context-switching and dopamine addiction,

Leading to early onset of Alzheimer, or, as we’ll call it, Eastbound Disease.

Of course that doesn’t have to be your fate! But programming takes you into that slippery slope very easily.

To anyone downloading: Please argument too, because I don’t understand, thank you.

Re: A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Post by LoganDark »

reitanqild wrote: post #69
LoganDark wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean all of my dissociative identities? The answer is yes. DID can result in individual identities having different access to certain parts of the brain (for example, certain identities could have aphantasia while others have vivid imaginations), but as far as I'm aware, ADHD is a problem with the brain's reward system itself (the one that has to do with dopamine), so it affects the entire brain function, no m…

Hi again, and thanks for your website about plurality. I am not affected but I am aware of at least one person who seemed to be affected and it was really really interesting to read.

> thanks for your website about plurality

Not mine :)

Re: A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Post by LoganDark »

otikik wrote: post #71
LoganDark wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ADHD is sometimes wittily described as time dyslexia As someone with ADHD, this wildly misrepresents the actual disorder. ADHD itself has nothing to do with time, it has to do with executive function . Someone with ADHD can try to will themselves into doing something and simply not be able to. They'll try to make a command, and their body or brain will not listen to them. It will completely refuse to do what they t…

ADHD presents a variety of symptoms, not the same ones for everyone. The “H” (“hyperactive”) part in particular often doesn’t manifest (and that’s how many children become undiagnosed adults- hyperactivity is easier to spot). If you don’t have time dislexia, that doesn’t mean that others don’t.

> If you don’t have time dislexia, that doesn’t mean that others don’t.

In this case it's important to define what "time dyslexia" even is. I was talking about how the phrase didn't accurately describe ADHD symptoms, but you seem to be talking about a third thing that does have a concrete definition. What definition is that?

Re: A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Post by rexpop »

thunkle wrote: post #56

I tried a 5mg THC edible last week (new user) and I lost my short term memory for about 50 hours. It was hell because I could still remember some things but my visual memory was 0, so it was like I was always coming out of a dark cloud that's 15 seconds behind me, but perceiving now in full clarity. It really messed with my perception of time. I wonder how many times I thought: "what's going on... ok you lost your sh…

This is my experience with THC and it's definitely anxiety inducing! A good reason to avoid the drug. I imagine that with the proper mindset, and in the proper setting, short term memory usage might be less important or even a hindrance. I could see this as a boon when playing silly games, goofing off in the ocean, or maybe doing something akin to talk therapy, but for anything I currently enjoy doing, holding onto a thought and following it to logical conclusions is a primary necessity.

Re: A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Post by samus »

haswell wrote: post #33
ryanSrich wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does that work in practice? She can read a clock right? So would she just not remember to look at the clock to see the time? Genuinely curious.

My brother is dealing with a TBI, and in a nutshell, it’s exactly that. The reason most of us glance at the clock is because we feel the passage of time and wonder what time it must be now. He doesn’t always feel time passing, and he could go hours before it even occurs to him to look at his phone or a clock. He relies on timers and reminders to keep things on track.

I wonder whether my work colleague has that issue. Every 20mins there are timers going off on his phone. On the other hand, he is a smoker, and I imagine that the nicotine dependency ought to act as sort of a replacement for that sense. Not a terribly precise one though.

Re: A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Post by GistNoesis »

rabite wrote: post #64
GistNoesis wrote: post #36

What about solitude, solitary confinement, social isolation, with respect to the perception of time ? How much of it is link to a physiological injury like inflammation vs loss of markers ?

I was imprisoned on false charges and tortured by the United States government. A precedent-setting appeal freed me, but not before I spent a long time in solitary confinement, much of that on a hunger strike. Solitary confinement causes brain damage so severe it is visible on a CT scan. The area that it damages is the hippocampus, which is key of in the perception of time and spatial memory. I can still perceive tim…

Thanks for your feedback.

I feel sorry for you.

Malnutrition probably didn't help with respect to the CT injuries.

Does in-person conversation help to stabilize your flow of time ?

Can piggybacking on someone else (like a helper, or group activities) help you recover your own sense of longer term coherency by synchronizing your flow with others ?

Re: A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Post by lakpan »

512 wrote: post #23

I feel I have a slightly "time-warped" memory. I often can't tell whether something was two months or over a year ago, for instance. I believe this to be caused by depression, as I've seen many similar reports online. Life assumes a sort of "flow" state, as you don't care enough to pay attention to things. It affects my memory in general as well.

Is it possible that you've fallen into a habitual life? I have almost a black hole in my memory from 3-year period that I spent mostly at home. After that period, I can look at a photo in my gallery and know almost the exact date when it happened. Or vice-versa, knowing where I was on a specific period 7 years ago.

Re: A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Post by slavik81 »

ryanSrich wrote: post #28
grogenaut wrote: post #22

After my mom's stroke she basically lost the concept of time. Apparently it's relatively common. Kids don't get the concept of time until an age, and you can lose it. Amazing how much you need it how things fall apart in this modern life without it. Didn't help that she decided to use a 2017 calendar in 2018, I questioned my sanity as I unraveled the mess. It very much impacted her life. About the only good thing was…

How does that work in practice? She can read a clock right? So would she just not remember to look at the clock to see the time? Genuinely curious.

You judge the passage of time by remembering the things that have happened since the last time that you checked the time. If you can't remember what you've been doing, then it could have been minutes or it could have been hours since you've last checked.
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