Read on Twitter
I think @vgr is doing some of his most fascinating work this year https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/05/07/leaking-into-the-future/
imagination and mental simulation, "mental time travel," etc is one of the most important features of human thought. it is also intricately tied to time perception
hence one understanding of trauma is primarily a disruption of experienced temporal properties as well as the internal collapse of the ability to simulate forward into the future https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166378/
another analogy is to what happens in fiction -- noticeably pynchon -- when the working models of reality used in the novel suddenly collapse http://theamericanreader.com/review-thomas-pynchons-bleeding-edge/
this too is distinguished by severe temporal distortions as well as interruptions of the ability to coherently link together past, present, and future
