Missing time?

[sommervr]

I had a weird experience today. I was reading a book and I assumed I dosed off. This is very strange behavior for me because I had bread in the oven (which burnt) and a puppy lose which chewed up some baseboards. The really weird thing: I am something of a watch aficionado and own and wear an accurate swiss mechanical watch. This watch which I set every day and is accurate to a few seconds/day was slow by exactly 30 minutes (right down to the second). The watch is recently serviced and the mainspring wound tight when I checkled afterwards. I have no explanation for the watch stoppage it has never happened before and the lost time was literally exactly 30 minutes to the second.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this before? This is a first for me.

[Bill Ryan]

I had a weird experience today. I was reading a book and I assumed I dosed off. This is very strange behavior for me because I had bread in the oven (which burnt) and a puppy lose which chewed up some baseboards. The really weird thing: I am something of a watch aficionado and own and wear an accurate swiss mechanical watch. This watch which I set every day and is accurate to a few seconds/day was slow by exactly 30 minutes (right down to the second). The watch is recently serviced and the mainspring wound tight when I checkled afterwards. I have no explanation for the watch stoppage it has never happened before and the lost time was literally exactly 30 minutes to the second.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this before? This is a first for me.

An immediate question... what (exactly) were you reading when you dozed off?

I had a very slightly similar experience a few years ago when I was listening to an audio interview. Like you, I never doze off. I woke up when the closing music was playing, and I realized I'd been 'out' for the best part of an hour.

I don't feel I had any 'missing time' (in the usual sense of the word), but it was clear there was definitely something there for me to pay attention to in the audio. I went back to listen to it really carefully, this time taking notes, and with a strong cup of :coffee: at hand.

That's a different situation, though, as the audio was continuing to play when I was 'asleep' — and I woke up exactly when it had finished. With a book, no information continues to be absorbed — presumably! — after one closes one's eyes. :)

[sommervr]

I was reading A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab. Recommended with a caveat: you may slip into an alternative dimension for a short period!

[seah]

I had an experience with missing time many years ago while walking in Mt Pleasant cemetery. I was never able to figure out just how much time was lost but the sun was in a different place in the sky when I became conscious again and we were walking in a total different direction than I had remembered. There was an uneasy feeling of things not being congruent.

Sommervr, what comes to mind is that your experience was not nefarious because when interdimensionals pay a visit our pets are generally put out of commission for the duration, and you mention your pup went to town on your baseboards.
It may simply have been one of those deep, into the black void kind of nap that threw you off kilter.

[WhiteLove]

I have not experienced that. What I am going through is this strange period when I live exactly like before, but I have ~4 minutes more time left prior to everything which removes what used to be stress and when I come to traffic lights it is green most of the time, either green or red but cars just went by so that I can walk across the street without stopping. Everything is in more sync from when I wake up to when I go to sleep. It's as if the time has suddenly decided to be on my side.

[sommervr]

My watch stopping for 30 minutes exactly to the second is what is freaking me out. It is a mechanical watch with a fully wound mainspring. It is not going to stop unless broken and in that case it won't start up again. It is working fine right now I just ran it through a quick and dirty regulator test (+3 sec/day) . People really don't wear mechanical watches much anymore but they just don't behave like this.

[cursichella1]

This is a first for me.

Curious to know if it was raining outside when it happened?

[Inversion]

I listened to a James Rink roundtable discussion on YouTube and one of the guests said he was missing exactly one hour from his watch then found out later he was off world for weeks. I've had that happen to me several times and my watch will be exactly one hour ahead or behind. I heard there's a technology that can take you and return you in the same second. David Paulides missing person's stories are worth looking into.

[picloud]

I once experienced half an hour in what literally felt like 2 minutes but I was wearing a broken watch so no proof of time lapsing, just the eerie realization that the 30 minute track I listened to from start to finish never paused or jumped or skipped at any time, just seamless and experienced in under 2 minutes (psychologically or whatever).