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This can happen for many reasons-- [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|memory damage]], aliens, [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia|trauma]], [[Grand Theft Me|posse]][[Demonic Possession|ssion]], or [[Split Personality|multiple personalities]], just to name a few.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* [[Lupin III]] suffers from this in ''Sweet Lost Night'' (Maho no Lamp wa Akumu no Yokan).
* It's implied that this happens to Bakura in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' whenever he gets possessed by his dark side. It's very obvious that this is the case when Yami Bakura suddenly relinquishes control during his duel with Yugi in the second season. Poor Bakura is completely bewildered, having suddenly woken up on top of a blimp with a bleeding arm, with apparently no idea how he got there and why. Also, this happened to Yugi during the early volumes of the manga whenever he got possessed by the puzzle.
* In ''[[Trigun]]'', Vash the Stampede has a bit of a problem with this whenever his more high-level powers get unlocked, until he learns to do it on purpose. Since both this incidents involve psychic powers being used to make him ''blow up a city with his right arm'', which transforms into a [[BFG]] for the purpose, it's unclear whether the cause of these gaps is the psychic trauma, the emotional trauma, or the physiological trauma. Or the combination.
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* In ''[[Animal Man]]'' #19, the title character, as he gradually approaches [[Medium Awareness]], wonders why his life seems so episodic and fragmentary:
{{quote|What if we're just [[Noticing the Fourth Wall|characters]] and not people? [...] A few months ago, or maybe it was a year or more, my wife was attacked and almost raped in the woods. There were four guys. What happened to them? [...] Why was there no trial? [...] Why is my life so...so disconnected? One minute I'm at home, the next I'm in the Faroe Islands or in Paris and I think I remember how I got there but I don't really know.}}
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* ''In Like Flint''. While playing golf with the U.S. President, Z.O.W.I.E. chief Lloyd Cramden uses his stopwatch to time the President's golf swing. When he checks the watch, he finds that the swing took 3 minutes. His investigation of the missing 3 minutes leads to the discovery of a plan to take control of the minds of women all over the world and put a nuclear sword of Damocles in orbit around the Earth.
* Aaron Stampler in ''[[Primal Fear]]'' mentions that he "loses" time over his childhood. {{spoiler|This is explained as his alter-ego taking over during times of stress.}}
* This is something that the title character must deal with in the domestic drama ''Regarding Henry'', starring [[Harrison Ford]]. When Henry [['Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain|survives a gunshot wound to the head]], the resulting pinched artery affects his memory. Cue the rest of the movie depicting him [[Quest for Identity|coming to terms]] with [[Loss of Identity|not remembering anything]] about
* This happens to Eddie in ''[[Limitless]]'' when he starts taking too much NZT.
== Literature ==
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s novella "[[wikipedia:The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag|The Unpleasant Profession Of Jonathan Hoag]]"{{context}}
* In [[Lois Duncan]]'s ''[[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.
* This is apparently what Ginny's possession in ''[[Harry Potter and
* Short story "Sign Among The Stars". Mike and Molly Carson are at a military Research Base when [[Red Alert|Battle Stations]] is sounded and "Emergency Plan X" is activated. They're told to go home and they start to do so, but then lose control of their minds. They wake up the next morning having no memory of what happened. They're told that Emergency Plan X involves broadcasting a hypnoray to all children in the area that mesmerises them and makes them go home as quickly as possible.
* In the [[Star Trek: Millennium]] trilogy, it's revealed that neither Odo, Quark nor Garak can recall what happened the night of the Cardassian withdrawal from Terok Nor. It's a classic case of missing time. Quark is the only one who will admit it, though. His attempt to find answers irritates Odo and Garak, who refuse to discuss or acknowledge that they're in the same situation.
* One of the first things that clues the protagonists of ''[[False Memory]]'' off that something's wrong is small episodes of missing time. Eventually, they figure out {{spoiler|that time was used by their psychiatrist to brainwash them, implanting phobias and using them as toys and tools}}.
* ''[[Bone Dance]]'' starts the plot with its protagonist, Sparrow, coming up from the latest of several inexplicable episodes of missing time. It eventually develops that {{spoiler|one of a group of legendary [[Body Snatcher
* William Prior of ''[[The Regeneration Trilogy]]'' spends part of the second volume suffering from [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|PTSD-induced]] memory loss that's developing into borderline [[Split Personality|Dissociative Identity Disorder.]] One of the few fictional works to address the fact just how absolutely terrifying this must be from the sufferer's perspective.
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** Happens in the Season 2 finale when House himself, while walking down a stairs, realizes he can't remember what happened between being in his office and walking down the stairs. Some have interpreted this as House gaining temporary [[Medium Awareness]], as the show cuts directly from the office to the stairs; the interim is not depicted.
* Sometimes happens in association with UFOs and other phenomena in ''[[The X-Files]]''. In the first episode, Mulder is ecstatic when he and Scully lose nine minutes while investigating alien abductions.
* Happens to Sharon Valerii onboard the ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Happens to Dr.Brennan on [[Bones]], after she gets attacked by a criminal of the week and framed for murder. She believes it's some sort of mental effect naturally, while Booth thinks it's voodoo at work.
* Happens to Fred Ade-Williams in Season 4 of ''[[Tinsel]]''.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Fate/stay night
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* ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' ask an important question, [http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20040917.html How did we get into space?]
* [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/morning-to-night/ this] strip of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' describes an incident where Shelly lost an entire day due to some strange dolls belonging to her mother.
* ''[[Zombie Roomie]]'': Being possessed by a ghost causes a persons mind to be 'paused'.
* ''[[Freefall]]'''s [[Uplifted Animal|Florence Ambrose]] winds up missing a large chunk of a day's memories thanks to [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|a chemical that inhibits the transfer of short term memories to long term storage]], during a trip to Ecosystems Unlimited.
== Web Original ==
* A very common symptom of Bad Things Happening in ''[[The Slender Man Mythos]]''. One of the more extreme was in ''[[Marble Hornets]]'', where {{spoiler|Jay ''tackled'' Slendy}} and wiped out the last seven months of his life in the process.
== Others ==
* This is a common trait of UFO accounts.
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* This can also be an effect of hypnotism or other altered mental states.
* Trauma to the brain can induce 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
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