This may sound weird, in fact it feels weird even talking about it....but I need the input of people without this problem. That problem is the almost complete loss of a sense of time. Since my MCI became a little less "M", something that has really messed with my sense of reality is the inability sense when some period of time has gone by or to be able to put some future date/time into perspective relative to now.
Yesterday feels like last week, and last week could have been yesterday. While the easy answer is that memory loss during any given period would seem to make that period seem "faster". What that would then imply is that normal people sense time based on the activities they recall from that period. For example, ask someone what happened 8 hours ago, they can usually answer because they have a sense of how long 8 hours ago was. To put it another way, perhaps we sense the passage of time based on the activities we remember. Once you start to lose those memories of activities, your sense of time can suffer...but remember kids: this is the theory of a clinically crazy man...so my question to you is, how do you sense time? How can you make a reasonable guess as to when say 8 hours have passed?
I am curious about the mechanics behind this because without a sense of time, even trying to plan a day is almost impossble....
