Is there a disorder where you lose track of time?

Schitzophrenia could do that. It also happens in dreams, you could say that it was all a dream!

Or time parallel.

Or fugues? Then again Dean Koontz has done this (but it is Dean Koontz...).

There is a phenomena called "fugue" where people wander from their families, lives, etc., for up to years having no idea where they are from or where they have been or how they got where they are...so I guess time passes differently for these people.

Keep in mind that time is relative to the observer (E=mc^2 and all that) so what one perceives as mere seconds can be hours to another.

The more you know....

Schizophrenia, schizotypal personalities make you lose your track of time.

FIRST HAND HERE.

Hive five, and shit.

Oliver Sacks did some studies on some people with varying degrees of time loss, for lots of different reasons; head-injury, genetic disorders, autism.

Some examples that I can recall were a man in an institute who thinks it is still the early seventies, and he's always getting ready for or just returning from a Grateful dead concert. I don't recall what caused this.

A painter that paints images from when he was a child in Italy. Hadn't been to this town since he was like seven years old, but all of a sudden - forty years later - starts painting the town as seen from his bedroom window. Other than that I think he had Asperger's Syndrome.

A woman was in a car accident no longer percieved time moving smoothly, only as still-frames that would be replaced at intervals.

These are all from his book: An Anthropologist on Mars, which is not specifically about time disorders, but does include those.

alien abduction

I don't know if it's a disorder, but I DO know a woman who thinks that WWII is still going on, and not in a crazy conspiracy theory way... she actually believes it's THAT time period.

She also has not left her house in many, many years.

But I think that's just plain ol' trauma.

In any altered state of consciousness it's normal to have difficulty estimating time.

if you've lost 9 minutes exactly, you have to watch the pilot of the X-Files. It will explain it all.

[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;991711]I don't know if it's a disorder, but I DO know a woman who thinks that WWII is still going on, and not in a crazy conspiracy theory way... she actually believes it's THAT time period.

She also has not left her house in many, many years.[/QUOTE]

Alzheimers'll do that to you....

Whatever disorder that is... I've got a pretty bad case of it (though I don't consider it a disorder). It's not nearly as bad as you describe - I certainly wouldn't insist it was day if I saw a dark sky full of stars. I've never really been comfortable with clocks or dates - it all feels like an abstract measurement system layered over something more organic and real. Marking points in time seems really absurd to me -- I've learned how to do it (it would be hard not to living in our society) but it doesn't come natural at all. If something drags on forever does it really matter if it was only 15 minutes? And don't get me started on something like 'next Thursday at 3 PM'...