I looked at the clock it was 11.15 pm . I looked again thinking 10 minutes or so had passed . It was 12.05 am .
It happens late at night to me too sometimes. Were you focused on a task like reading the Internet.
Maybe you even dozed off for a second who knows!! 
Happens to me sometimes. I often forget what day it is as I stay in bed all day everyday. I can’t know time or the date without my cellphone.
Time flies when you’re having fun. I swore ten minutes ago it was 2014.
Yeah, I kind of hear you, I’ve been having a lot of examples like this… And I wonder about dementia! I have been chain drinking water/coffee/seltzer and have heard about a ‘wet brain’ from my mother. Back to you though: maybe you were heavily entertained throughout those minutes…?
My inquisitive mind had mr googling.
Could you give a summary?
That’s truly scary to lose that much time.
Read the abstract and it meshes with my life with Sz. I read in "Driven to Distraction’ [the book on ADHD] that they are ‘time blind’. Wasted lots of time thinking I was one of them.
Also personally I was pulled over by a police officer during my one time psychosis and was asked to basically speak up when I thought 24 seconds had surpassed. There were many tests like that, but after they ended he said I didn’t do very well on them. He let me go ultimately and I kinda/sorta documented him in my blog, right or wrong.
I’ve never been good at précis. This seems to be easier,
Effect of Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) on time perception
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is a behavioral disorder characterized by severe and pervasive impairment in several areas of development including but not limited to reciprocal skills, social interaction skills, communication & language skills. Apart from these struggles self-reports and reports from people (parents, teachers, and clinicians) having regular contact with people with ASD indicate that they often see them struggle with time perception and sense of time. Individuals with autism seem to have a basic inability to make sense of past and present experiences, which has to do with comprehending the passage of time and linking it with current ongoing activities.[121]
Allman and Falter (2015) present three general trends in the research on abnormal timing and time perception in ASD. Firstly, studies concentrating on the sub-second range have tended to find superior temporal discrimination differences in people with ASD. Secondly, studies in the supra-second range have tended to find impairments in longer durations beyond the limits of the ‘psychological present’ of about 3 seconds as described by William James (1890) and connected with increased variability. Thirdly, there is initial evidence indicating problems with conceptual notions of time in ASD (Allman & Falter, 2015).[125]
Effect of Schizophrenia on time perception
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior. Individuals suffering from schizophrenia have a varied perception of time compared to neurotypicals; also are less precise in judging the temporal order of events.[126][127] Time perception impairment in schizophrenia was originally described by clinicians and later addressed in laboratory. Past work on schizophrenics indicated a great impairment in time sensitivity and perception leading to overestimation of time intervals. Due to the cognitive impairments that the disorder poses, there have not been any definitive conclusions about the nature of time perception irregularities. A recent study aimed to isolate a genuine time perception disorder (functioning of the internal clock) in schizophrenia by testing id the patients’ internal clock runs faster compared to healthy controls. Results indicated significant correlations between Time perception tasks and memory outcomes suggesting such impairments are directly related to memory impairment in schizophrenia.[128] Schizophrenia has been associated with abnormalities in dopamine (DA) transmissions (Seeman et al., 2006), which in turn, have been linked to the speed of the internal clock (Cheng et al., 2007). The time overestimation has been suggested to be caused by accelerated time processing and may be associated with psychosis (Droit-Volet and Meck, 2007)[129]
Uh, 50 minutes went by faster than you thought, it doesn’t seem like a big deal.
Heck, the half hour at work before lunch flies by. At work I often lose track of time. After lunch, I don’t have a break until 2:00. Often an hour goes by but I’m so busy I don’t look at my watch but when I finally do I am usually surprised at how fast and how much time went by.
This happens to me usually late in the evenings.
Maybe you dozed off and didn’t realize?
As a stand-alone event maybe not.
I have quite a lot of difficulty getting off to sleep, but that’s not totally dismissible.
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time goes fast when you dont realise it.no problem though,it happens to all of us.
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