Umer Gurchani

Three forms of temporal disorientation: A thematic analysis of subjective reports about Covid-19 restriction periods.

PLoS One 2025 Bastien Perroy, Pablo Fernandez Velasco, Umer Gurchani et al.

During the Covid-19 restrictions, people reported various surprising disruptions in their experience of time, such as time simultaneously passing slower and faster, or feeling unreal. This hints at instances of dissociative time experiences in the general public in times of crisis. We investigate the temporal experience of the pandemic through a corpus-based thematic analysis and a multiple...