- Being unable to calculate properly the time elapsed between two different events.
- The clock's hours and the days of the week have ceased to mean an special relevance for us. It is the same at what time and day we make things.
- ...
Why does this happen?
We have lost temporal references from the past. Everybody, from childhood, has been learning to feel the pass of the time. For example to calculate, watching different events from the real world how long is one hour, or 5 minutes in function of the things may happen in that passage of time. To feel the pass of the time appropriately, we have to perceive well the reality that surround us.
If we are not fully connected to reality, the sense of the pass of the time stays distorted. We don't have anything to compare to, there are not references.
Another collateral effect of DP consist of having also lost the references about which things We did at what hour of the day before the attack of DP/DR. If one cannot connect with the things one did and thought of at certain hours of the day it is impossible that they now mean anything. The schedule and habits we followed were part from our personality.
PROPOSED EXERCISE nº3:
Every time you observe a watch to know the time, make a conscious effort to remember what do you usually did at this time of the day when you were ok, what were you doing, for example, when you went to school.
Remember the entering time, the departure time, how long did it take walking from home to school,..
What did it happen, i.e, Saturdays at 2 p.m.? What did you usually do?, Where were you going?, With who?..., What did you do different on Sundays morning?,.. Up to what time did you stay up late?,.. and the last time to arrive home?,...
Access to those temporal memories activates the memory of your FORMER EGO, of YOUR CUSTOMS, HABITS, TIMETABLES, ,... So it will help you to improve in your depersonalization.
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