Sounds like a plan.

I have some kind of unspecified dissociative disorder and it’s weird. The other day I was having a stress response to some stuff. Woke up, remember some stuff about the morning, then remember coming back into existence that evening. The entire house was cleaned including garage and driveway. I had been talking with people too. I think I remember parts of it but I don’t actually know if they’re post-dissociation manufactured memories as my brain tried to fill in the gap. Malls are the worst for me they’re a sensory nightmare and I’ll usually start dissociating within a few minutes.

I’ve gotten so used to it that I’ve built up a “what am I doing?” skill set. Sometimes I’m just suddenly somewhere else in the house or in a different part of town shopping or some shit. I have to piece together what’s going on like in Memento. Am I me during those times I can’t remember? DID has been ruled out but if I can’t remember things than what exactly is running the body while I’m away? People who interact with me say I respond to stuff slowly, in a confused or dreamlike way, and need things repeated to me multiple times. Sometimes they can pull me out of it then they have to explain where we are and what we’re doing.

Imagine watching a movie and periodically hitting the next scene button. Sometimes you skip a little bit, sometimes a lot, and you need to piece together what was missed based on limited info.

Where do I sign up?

Agatha Christie might have experienced this. In 1926, her husband Archibald had been having an affair with another woman and asked her for a divorce. One night, she left her home at night, drove a little far. Her car was found abandoned. When they searched for her she was found 11 days later in a hotel in Northern England staying under a false name with no recollection of who she was. But, there are some people who think that she did all of that deliberately just to embarass her husband.

That headline is terrible…

People have claimed that it last for months and causes them to adopt a new life, but even those claims are very very rare and often someone who ran away from their old life.

A real fugue state would be something like “highway hypnosis” where you’re doing a repetitive activity and your brain just decides it can handle it on autopilot.

I’d love a book based on this which tells like 4 completely different stories but all with the same person as the central character after they forget their identity. And each story just ends abruptly after a possibly traumatic event.

Interestingly I just watched the Archer fugue state episodes yesterday…

I can barely keep this identity solvent.

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Sounds perfect for a scenario.