History Main / MissingTime

* In ''[[FateStayNight Fate/Stay Night]]'', ''Heaven's Feel'' route, Shirou starts suffering this after [[spoiler:unsealing Archer's arm]].

* This happens to Eddie in ''Limitless'' when he starts taking too much NZT.

* Happens to one of the vict--- patients of the week in ''{{House}}''.

* Happens to Sharon Valeri onboard the ''{{Battlestar Galactica}}'', when her Cylon programming kicks in, leading to her sabotage the ship's water tanks without realising it.

* Classic Traveller Adventure 4 ''Leviathan''. While on a data sweep in the Outrim Void, a member of the Scouts found himself on his ship heading at full jump toward his home base with no memory of how he got there and burned out flight recorders. He was the victim of psionic humans who ''really'' like their privacy.

* Also, in the book Down A Dark Hall, the girls in the school are possessed by ghosts randomly, and they have don't remember anything that happens while possessed.

* Happens to Donna in an episode of ''DoctorWho'' where she's stuck in a virtual reality. Though in her case, time really DOES jump, and people just tell her that it's her memory.

* This is something that the title character must deal with in the domestic drama ''Regarding Henry'', starring HarrisonFord. When Henry [[TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain survives a gunshot wound to the head]], the resulting pinched artery to affects his memory. Cue the rest of the movie depicting him [[QuestForIdentity coming to terms]] with [[LossOfIdentity not remembering anything]] about [[MissingTime his life before]] the [[TraumaInducedAmnesia shot]].

* Trauma to the brain can enduce amnesia in retrograde (the inability to remember some events prior to the blow) or anterograde (the inability to form new memories) form. Both are forms of time elapsing without people having any memory of it. Severe anterograde amnesia can result in MissingTime from the time of the event until whenever ''now'' is.

* ExterminatusNow ask an important question, [[http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20040917.html How did we get into space?]]

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* LupinIII suffers from this in ''Sweet Lost Night'' (Maho no Lamp wa Akumu no Yokan).

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* Classic Traveller Adventure 4 ''Leviathan''. While on a data sweep in the Outrim Void, a member of the Scouts found himself on his ship heading at full jump toward his home base with no memory of how he got there and burned out flight recorders. He was the victim of psionic humans who ''really'' like their privacy.

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* In ''[[FateStayNight Fate/Stay Night]]'', ''Heaven's Feel'' route, Shirou starts suffering this after [[spoiler:unsealing Archer's arm]].
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* ExterminatusNow ask an important question,[[http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20040917.html How did we get into space?]]

* ExterminatusNow ask an important question,[[How did we get into space? http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20040917.html]]

Quite simply when a character's life seems to 'jump' they are in work and then they are at home, with no memories of what happened in between. Sometimes the memories will come back in the form of flashbacks.

This can happen for many reasons, memory damage, aliens, trauma, possession, multi personalities..

Distinct from many Amnesia tropes in that only a few hours going missing and nothing else.

* Sometimes happens in association with [=UFOs=] and other phenomena in ''TheXFiles''. In the first episode, Mulder is ecstatic when he and Scully lose eight minutes while investigating alien abductions.

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* Adam Sandler's ''Click'' had this happen when the main character used his magic remote to "fast forward" himself past things he didn't like. He got put on autopilot while he did so.