Has anyone ever seen that expression used anywhere or heard it used outside the film medium? I have tried researching it and Collins and all respectable dictionaries only list it in the ‘We have no time to lose’ context or as a synonym of ‘waste time’.
When I watched Primal Fear over a decade ago I assumed Aaron saying ‘I lost time’ was an authorial term/concept to describe how he feels when
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the “multiple personality disorder” takes over. The judge or someone in the trial scene actually asks him, ‘What does it mean - you lost time?’
But Season 3 of Hannibal uses the exact same expression to describe how the Tooth Fairy/Francis Dolarhyde is feeling. What’s up with that? Is there any evidence that this expression actually refers to a lack of awareness of oneself/losing memory or something like that? Edit: Hannibal also uses it in Season 1 for Will, I think, once. |
Re: ‘Lost time’
Yeah, I remember the first time I heard it, too, and I had a similar reaction: it was new to me. I probably was a teenager the first time I heard it. But I've heard it plenty since, and yeah, just means "blacked out" basically. No memory of something. But more than just "I don't happen to remember a specific thing," it seems to exclusively mean prolonged blank spots where memories should be.
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Re: ‘Lost time’
I've heard "In Search of Lost Time" and "three hours I'll never get back."
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Hmm, thanks, I guess that means I have either never noticed it irl or have really never come across it. At least that clears that up!
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Re: ‘Lost time’
The first thing that came to my mind was the phenomenon of missing time referenced by alien abductees.
“It is not perceived as a break in which something happens and then a resumption. It is… remembered as continuous and… the half hour trip… turns out to be a two hour trip or whatever, and this is sometimes experienced in conjunction with a UFO sighting or something like a light, but not always.” Prob dosnt help just thinking out loud |
Originally Posted by ScannerDarkly (Post 2210250)
The first thing that came to my mind was the phenomenon of missing time referenced by alien abductees.
“It is not perceived as a break in which something happens and then a resumption. It is… remembered as continuous and… the half hour trip… turns out to be a two hour trip or whatever, and this is sometimes experienced in conjunction with a UFO sighting or something like a light, but not always.” Prob dosnt help just thinking out loud |
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From the Wikipedia article ThatDarnMKS just linked for us :
"Sometimes dissociative fugue cannot be diagnosed until people return to their pre-fugue identity and are distressed to find themselves in unfamiliar circumstances, sometimes with awareness of "lost time". The diagnosis is usually made retroactively when a doctor reviews the history and collects information that documents the circumstances before people left home, the travel itself, and the establishment of an alternative life." Emphasis mine. I think I was pretty aware of the term, but obviously I can't trace where or when I first heard it and/or used it. |
Originally Posted by ThatDarnMKS (Post 2210307)
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