I had a bad experience very recently with hash (in the non-CS sense.) There was a harm done, for a couple of hours, to my understanding of time, of recalling "when" each memory I was using was formed. I could not tell AT ALL if it was from literally 10 seconds ago, or weeks/months ago. It was incapacitating, but upon reflection, really showed as is often the case with medical science and pathology, there was a faculty at play here that was only apparent when removed. I could not function without the ability to sequence events, including the provenence of each damn propositions I was trying to use to explain my current existence. Bad times. But with some distance quite interesting.
I wonder if this is a more extreme manifestation of the common experience of losing sense of time passing when high, often thinking that something is taking a very long time while actually not taking very long.
I'm describing something I thought was salient. This was a passage of time issue, but it was specifically the loss of the ability to temporaily sequence the provenance of recollection. Imagine having a discussion where you couldn't tell if you said something in the previous sentence, or last week. We (apparently) feel this information and use it to guide the process. There was clearly some sort of 'tagging' of memory regarding it's age and how it "should" be used in reasoning, and I lost that. TFA is talking about this sequence being unique to humans.
I felt like I was 102 years old. I wonder how other organisms function without relying upon this appently inate ability.
