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People facing spatial and social restrictions during the Covid-19 period could report various surprising temporal disruptions, such as time passing slower and faster at once. We investigate the temporal experience of the pandemic through a corpus-based thematic analysis and multiple correspondence analysis of 149 subjective reports in March 2021, during a period of long lasting and ongoing restrictions in France and the UK. We argue that three forms of temporal disorientation constitute a fitting umbrella over a heterogeneous phenomenology. The loss of temporal landmarks made it harder to orient oneself and induced episodic forms of temporal disorientation. Distinctively, sustained temporal disbelief, an existential form of temporal disorientation, could happen when people’s past perspective was severely distorted. Finally, a future-oriented form of temporal disorientation whose hallmarks were feelings of anxiety and hopelessness could occur alongside inabilities to project oneself into the future. Our findings suggest that public authorities should provide future landmarks to those most exposed to temporal disorientation during crises. |
