I absconded and spent a night in a car smoking dope with a guy who had found me, no shoes or socks, jacket or underwear sitting in town and offered me some hash.
The next day (I might have been awake for i don’t know how long… might not be more than two nights, but chronic lack of sleep certainly) we went to the beach and i changed my clothes and waited for them to dry while wearing his clothes, it was a very hot day…
and then i’m not sure what happened… I have very few memories of the rest of that day, as in i can’t work out what happened that day or the day before, but i certainly lost between 4 - 11pm or could have been from 10 am to 11 pm
but one thing i know is that i lost time and was woken up by a woman shaking me and waking me up, asking if i was okay, lying on the pavement in the middle of town, not even that close to the shops, more in the middle of the pavement. and i had no idea how i got there
I am thinking the guy who offered me hash and smoked with me all night and went to the beach with… he drove down to Newquay from the North (UK) and I’m slightly suspicious that something more might have happened. I only remember waking up and it was dark, and it hadn’t been dark, it had been possibly early afternoon. It was middle of summer and it gets dark at about 10 or 11 at night.
I’m sure i can over dramatise any situation i want here,
just wondering if you have ever lost time?
i think i did once prior to that lose time, when i was injected with diazepam or worse by the staff i was out for longer than 24 hours, but that isn’t losing time, strictly it’s just another blank
No its not common. Somethings wrong. Maybe with your meds(not working for you) or their dose. You were messed up before you met the guy sounds like. I’d tell someone like a doctor about that.
I didn’t give a backstory, sorry
this was a long time ago, I’m recovering well
i just don’t know if i forgot that i lay down and slept with no awareness or what happened
its just strange because i still remember being woken up not knowing how i got there
I’m so sorry that happened. Recreational drugs and sz just don’t go together very well.
I’m thinking maybe get the police involved. Maybe talk to one of the counselling lines for advice on that asap. Your bound to feel a whole lot better talking to someone about it all. rather then type also. It will be anonymous and safe.
Regardless I think a std test and pregnancy test. is something you will have do soon also…I’m not saying anything happened. It’s just for peace of mind.
Yeah, I might phone someone like a line like that.
I think minor cases of losing time have happened a few times when I had chronic lack of sleep… although that was only at home, but i woke up in strange places after sitting up on my computer. Like sitting with my head resting in my hands and cross legged on the floor, once waking up lying on the floor of the dining area and once i woke up eating in the kitchen.
i remember scrabbling around in the bedroom one night when my husband said ‘what are you doing?’ and i was trying to squat on the chair to go to the loo and pulling my pants down but he woke me up a lot more than i was and i went to the bathroom., i have always sleep walked though
i can’t think of any more examples, don’t think these 5 incidents make a diagnosis
No idea why I didn’t think of it before. Been ages since I had it but when catatonic I loss time. Catatonia is SZ related. Much the sane just blackout motionless. Afterwards my heads very peaceful. Just a bit perplexed where the times gone.
Might not be anything to do with schizophrenia. You could have another condition as well. Then again it could be the meds. I had serious problems on seroquel for instance. Definitely mention it to a doctor.
i would not keep re- living a past event…
at this moment in time you are healthy, talented ( your writing ), married and recovering well…good on you
take care
All my experiences with losing time and going into a trance happned randomly.
It’s very scary and the only thing my doctor did was up my dosage on geodon, which did nothing. I think its a mental thing that stems from sz, but not directly caused by. Maybe a way for your brain to take a break? I dont know. I didn’t get much info from my doctor,sadly. best info I’ve received is about going into a catatonic state, @Dreamscape link best summed it up from me.
I wish I could be of some help, but I’m still confused about it. Be safe!
When I read that people with sz sometimes sit “for hours” without moving, I though “hunh, that’s weird – I don’t think I’ve ever done that for hours though”. But I have. I still do.
I zone out, and it’s as if I have found perfect balance and can’t move or I’ll ruin it. I don’t need to blink, my breathing slows and regulates itself, and I just kind of… slip out of full awareness.
I used to do it in school. I considered it like sleeping with my eyes open. Now I do it on the bus, mostly, and while listening to music. It puts me in a good place but I lose all contact with the passage of time. ‘Coming back’ is difficult if I force it, but easy if I just wait out the trance or whatever it is.
Sometimes I just feel like my limbs are too heavy and I can’t move them, or I can’t talk because of this weight / stillness, and I have to really focus on consciously moving those parts – and it feels much like waking up a sleeping limb, with pins and needles and gradual awareness.
Wtf? Is that catatonia? I never thought it was worth mentioning to anyone, I thought it was just another one of those weird things I do that are just a harmless odd thing about my life.
