I am here yet, I am gone yet, I am now here.

I had an intresting thing happen to me today at work. I found myself helping cashier and I was talking to one of my regulars who happens to be muslim. Due, to her religious views she refuses to talk much or even tell me her name and I respect that but, she is very nice what little she does say to me and I enjoy her kindness that she does show me. I told her today, "Allah, Akbar!! I said it loudly and said, "Allah, Akbar!! he is one!" She smiled very big and I continued saying, "I feel it's very important to the word of God out in the open and when reading it outloud." She smiled and said, "Yes, yes, me too!!" she laughed happily. I continued, "Hear O' Israel The Lord our God is One!" and I said, "Here O' Israel Isa Al Salam is One!(Jesus)" She begun to get a big smile on her face as I said it out loud and loudly for everyone to hear...suddenly...after receiting it I found myself not there anymore but, rather in the customer service desk. The line that I was serving was gone and I found myself counting a till. I came to myself, "Whoa...what was that?" What just happened? I know I didn't just imagine that, did I go into a meditative trance without realizing it? I asked my co worker if she had perceived that occurance of the event that took place and she responded, "Yes, but that was twenty minutes ago." Yet, I felt like i had just witnessed it. I asked my co worker again and her answer was the same. How is it that I do not recall coming to the customer service desk? what did I do twenty minutes ago? How curious and perplexed I was I almost felt like I had translated a short period of time...I am unsure of this event. I cannot believe that I was that careless to not realize or be aware of a twenty minute gap in time...how odd...
any thoughts my fellow Jedi?

Having been through similar experiences myself, sounds like a moment of disassociation / psychosis. Just being honest.

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That happens sometimes. I usually hear it described as "going on autopilot" for a bit. Nothing interesting enough happens for our brains to really remember much of it consciously. Most of the time I hear people talking about it when driving home from work or something mundane like that.

Interesting. Perhaps it is psychosis. I am not sure. I often have times like driving home I don't even really have to think to know how to get home. I am almost likrle aware of my surroundings yet I am not.

Happened to me quite a few times in the nineties, and is the reason I quit smoking Marijuana lol...

Yes... I have had it happen as well...

And how do we know what happened?

I had a motorcycle accident when I was young, and, I think I have memory problems (I think?) on occasion...

How do you know you have not had others you have not noticed? A question I have pondered for myself... lol...

My wife says, "I told you", I say, "I dont remember", she says, "Your memory sucks"...

But does it?

I know I have forgotten things, who hasnt?

In the case of my wifes and my conversation, I continued the last time she said this; "Well, I know I have forgotten to tell people things... And, if I forgot, how would I know until I remembered that I forgot?"

So, did my wife really tell me? Or is she thinking she did, but didnt? Did I forget?

Do you remember the last time you forgot a space of time?

You noticed this one...

:lol:

Losing blocks of time like that is problematic. I would be concerned.

When I was younger I was an ex-pro wrestler and I took a few shots to the Head in my one year of going pro and I took the wisdom of an older wrestler that the business does not cater to the older wrestlers as it does the Young and I should get out while I have my health I did and I'm glad I did it's only business I've ever worked in or had a job where you are constantly in pain. Once I got out I did go to the doctor and have a scan of my brain and my muscle and tissue. The doctor said that I was perfectly fine although he was shocked that there was no abnormalities or brain damage from the kind of beatings I took in the ring but that he suggested every couple years to come see him. I just recently had one recently he told me that I was overweight and I need to lose some weight and that my brain age was about that of a 42 year old which is roughly 12 years older than what I actually am. But he said no abnormalities and then I was healthy other than being obese. No high blood pressure no high cholesterol no bad symptoms. But like I said he would encourage me to lose some weight and do cardio because it helps with memory and brain age which I have been doing on and off still got a lot of work to do

Well let me correct myself I do have anxiety but he also thinks that's because of energy drinks that I consume but I haven't drank one since I went to the hospital with symptoms of a stroke without it being a stroke so I guess you can't say that I'm going to go perfectly healthy but it does definitely have to do with my weight

When I was younger I climbed a tree back in the woods. A branch did not carry and I fell about ten meters through the tree. Since there were fir needles about five centimeters thick on the ground I basically bounced back of it. Next thing I remember is me being almost home. I don’t recall getting up, or starting to walk, or even making the decision to go home. I notice this ‘feature’ to this day. Whenever I am wounded or intoxicated beyond a certain point this auto-recall kicks in and I get the drive to go home (which is wherever I perceive home to be at that time). If I resist the urge too long or the state that caused it aggravates, I lose time again and start remembering when I’m almost back home.

Sometime after that I went through the traumatic phase. I do not remember anything about it, though I see the signs and scars. I am currently trying to regain these memories as there are certain parts in it I need to finish the whole mess. These memories did not get drowned out by some kind of autopilot. They were locked away to protect. The second kind of ‘lost memories’ I experienced.

When I was in therapy, I met someone who would disassociate. It was a rather noticeable change in her, people could tell she wasn’t there. I don’t know how much attention your coworkers payed, but I’d imagine they would have noticed you ‘drifting away’. We were taught to help her, by the way, by making her name 5 things she could see, 5 she could hear, 5 she could smell. Then 4 other things of each, then 3. I found it to be a very useful exercise to anchor myself to reality/my surroundings.

If it was a onetime thing, I wouldn’t give it to much thought as long as no one approached you asking what you were doing (i.e. as long as you didn’t do anything out of the ordinary during the lost time) and as long as your doctor thinks it is harmless. If it repeats, I’d try to figure it out as fast as possible though. My two cents only though, at your discretion.

Sven One wrote: I told her today, "Allah, Akbar!! I said it loudly and said, "Allah, Akbar!! he is one!"

You couldn't just leave the poor woman alone? And you had to shout religious weirdness and draw attention to her when we live in a world crammed full of people that openly hate Muslims right now? My bosses would immediately discipline any employee that did this to a customer. At my company, I believe that would get you fired. Regardless of her reaction being positive, that was NOT okay. You put her in great danger by singling her out. Did you shout "HEY LOOK AT THE GAY!" at the next person who came through the line wearing a pride pin too?

Desolous wrote: Losing blocks of time like that is problematic. I would be concerned.

I'm much more concerned about what I've responded to here, but I agree with Des.

Okay snow that sounds like a personal problem. Since that conversation this woman has invited me home to her family and talk about the Quran. Secondly I'm in charge. And thirdly what was wrong with that? Religious weirdness? I live my faith very boldly thank you very much what is wrong with that? It's not any means of converting or saying they're going to hell if they don't believe what I profess. I understand your point of Tolerance but I did not say anything disrespectful and clearly the fruits of that response she invited me to dine with her family and take a lesson in the study of the Quran. I just disgree with your statement and quite frankly I think that was an attack against me not in order to help me. Remember there is no emotion there is peace and what I did was in the name of peace tolerance and an open mind. I live in America I don't know about you but I'm allowed to openly to believe and express myself any way shape or fashion I see fit as long as I am not causing physical harm to anybody why should it matter or emotionally mentally why should what I said matter? And if you feel like I'm attacking and retaliated on you that's fine I'm only making a point I believe you're wrong and yes this is an open discussion post but I think what you said was wrong

interesting. hmmmm

Well, my brother, there are constants in life, you can be certain that there are as many opinions as grains of matter in the universe. And, no good deed goes unpunished.

Perhaps the universe prompted you to connect at that moment or perhaps there was a chemical imbalance... The real question is what it means to you here and now.

Have you had a chance to further reflect on it's meaning for you?

From the medical side of it, one of two things could have happened that I do see from time to time working in both EMS and a trauma specialized EMS.

If you have had a decent concussion before, even years prior, it can prevent long term memories from being formed in the area where you had the concussion damage. Memories aren't really stored in a linear format in the brain, they kinda just fill in where your brain manages to decide to fill it so I've seen a pt. have a similar effect, had a strong history of concussions and they couldn't remember their race at all so we transported assuming a concussion and turns out they were clean, but the explanation from the doctor is what I'm going off here. Sometimes even many years later if your brain tries to store long term memories near enough to where there was previous damage it doesn't properly store memories, and sometimes can give you lapses at random times. I forget the name of the condition but there is one, not really anything you can do and while your in that moment your still operating at normal brain activity making normal decisions it doesn't effect you in any way other then not remembering it so they don't really worry about it.

The other obvious one was if your blood sugar had dropped to a low level, can also cause the same thing but unless you hadn't eaten in sometime and/or are diabetic in anyway shape or form I doubt that was the case.


On the complete flip side of that, your brain eventually does try and heal itself and correct damage even from years prior. There are rare times where it fixes a branch that hits that damaged area and you suddenly remember things you've never remembered before, that is a bit more of a trip =p

I forget how detached people are from reality here sometimes. I withdraw my end of the discussion.

Have fun playing with the unicorns out in the yard.

Snowy Aftermath wrote: I forget how detached people are from reality here sometimes. I withdraw my end of the discussion.

Have fun playing with the unicorns out in the yard.

Oops, you missed a piece of lego over there!

How did this become about you?

Sorry, derail, my bad...

Cheers,

Arkayik

I forget how detached people are from reality here sometimes.

Who's reality?

I see the point you are trying to make, but it's inserting assumptions into the scenario that we are not in a position to make.

The OP was fairly vague - we don't know if this was an interaction with a woman he's served a hundred times in a small boutique or grocery store, or if he was chasing her across a Walmart screaming at the top of his lungs.

we live in a world crammed full of people that openly hate Muslims right now?

Crammed eh? I've got two muslims in my office (and two christians, and one smoker, and one person who wears glasses, two women, three men with receding hairlines, and three people who speak english as a second language)

The smoker is probably the least popular.

The only people who hate muslims are the spuds who watch too much news and have their heads up their arses.




As for the OP - I lose many hours. Never the ones I wish I could though :pinch:

I've got no idea what happens for you, but I suspect your brain filters "garbage" to a certain extent and dumps what it doesn't need.

JamesSand wrote:

I forget how detached people are from reality here sometimes.

Who's reality?

Exactly, in reality we do not 'live in a world crammed full of people that openly hate Muslims', but live in a world where the news is crammed full of reports on people who hate Muslims. The news won't report on the 99.99% of people who don't openly hate Muslims because a normal, rational, human being is not a headline-grabbing, news worthy story.

Arkayik wrote: How did this become about you?

By 3 of you responding after my last comment :whistle: