Do you have blocks of time you have simply lost?

That’s a really great question.

Yes…but I don’t know why. I will have to think about that.

“Missing time” is what you mean I gather?

Nope! For better or for worse, I find comfort that I still remember them all!

yep, and I ain’t going into detail

18th Jan 1999, the hours of 1am to 3pm. I woke up in an ambulance with no idea how I had got there.

Yes. I have about 8 years that are sort of fog. I have memory of what happend but it is very different than other years of my life. I was in chronic pain, doctors did not take me seriously, and the ones who seemingly did, but whom I did not agree with their diagnosis, threw all sorts of shit drugs at me. Sometimes I tried them, but it was never for very long. It negatively affected many parts of my life. I felt imprisoned most of those years, an incredible loss of freedom was the overwhelming thought in my mind at the time. I also felt I was not me, not the me I know myself to be, so the time is lost from the life I feel I was supposed to have. Maybe the years are foggy as a defense mechanism. I think it is probably a gift to have an unclear memory of bad times. There is research suggesting taking drugs that affect memory helps treat PTSD before it sets in. When a traumatic bad memory is etched in our brains, and pays like a tape in our heads, it can be extremely anxiety provoking. I’d rather not go back to feeling anxious.

I have blocks of time I choose to not remember.
Does that still count.

The last few hours of my 21st birthday. My friends said I was up and walking around all night and that I was being a belligerent drunken jerk, but I don’t really remember anything after 10. We were stopped by a police officer on the way home and I ordered a ton of shit at McDonalds, but I don’t really remember any of that either. I woke up safe and sound in my bed at 3 PM the next day. I’m so grateful that they got me home safe and that nobody drew on my face.

My childhood is pretty blank. I cannot remember so much of it, it bothers me. I wish I could.

Years! I’d rather not go into it because I’ll find myself turning to Xanax again! (Plus the fault was mine, which makes it even worse!)

There are many things I no longer remember, but the memories sometimes pop up when triggered by a comment or such.

The summer of 2008 is pretty much a blur due to a lot of baking…

I wish I had kept a diary… do you keep a diary @YARNLADY?

Much of my childhood is gone. It was an awful, awful time, so I’m actually pretty grateful not to remember it.

Most of my childhood, from age 5–12. I remember holidays and birthdays, but that’s about it. My parents always made sure I had a special birthday and holiday.

I learned in my mid 30s that my dad had a mistress the entire time he was married to my mother. That’s why he was never home after work, and why my mother spent her afternoons in her bedroom with her cigarettes and bottle of wine, leaving me to do whatever I wanted.

@Bellatrix No, it doesn’t really seem that important to me to remember most stuff. I started one when I was a child, but I was so unhappy in those days that I wrote what I wish would happen instead of what really did happen, but it only lasted a few weeks.

No,but I want to be able to do that.

I’m great at remembering little details and great at forgetting all the surrounding story. I’ve lost most of the eighties. Looking forward to forgetting most of the past year, as it’s not been the best for me.

Only a brief blip in the grand scheme of things, but i’ll never get back those two hours I lost watching Valkyrie. What a shameful waste of time that was.

Are we on the Tom Cruise lost time list? I have a couple.