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Time disorientation occurs when one loses track of time and cannot accurately estimate clock time or the intervals that have passed.

For example people become quickly time disorientated if they are taken into conditions with no light. Time disoreintation also occurs with some mental disorders and as a result of drug abuse and other causes of consciousness disturbances.


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