timeslip
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A timeslip is a narrative device or reported phenomenon in which someone experiences a sudden, involuntary shift to another time period—witnessing past or future events as if present.
The term appears in fiction, paranormal accounts, and speculation about time travel: The novel centers on a timeslip that transports the protagonist to Victorian London.
Unlike deliberate time travel, a timeslip suggests something accidental or mysterious.
Break in continuity
- distortionTwisting from original state
- wormholeHypothetical spacetime tunnel
- quantumSmallest discrete unit
- riftCrack or estrangement
flux · anomaly · singularity · relativity · dimension · continuum · event · transition
Cause-effect connection
- bootstrapStart without external resources
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- loopCurve closing on itself
- contradictionOpposing claims, incompatible together
ontological · circularity · self-reference · recursive · impossibility · paradoxical · dilemma · closed-loop
Loss of spatial awareness
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- visionAbility to see
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
fugue · blackout · confusion · awakening · bewilderment · realization · consciousness · awareness
New and unusual
- science-fictionSpeculative technology-based literature
- narrativeAccount of events
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
- plotStoryline or land parcel
characters · speculative · fantasy · genre · literature · author · protagonist · setting
discontinuity
Break in continuity
- distortionTwisting from original state
- wormholeHypothetical spacetime tunnel
- quantumSmallest discrete unit
rift · flux · anomaly · singularity · relativity · dimension · continuum · event · transition · portal
causality
Cause-effect connection
- bootstrapStart without external resources
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- loopCurve closing on itself
contradiction · ontological · circularity · self-reference · recursive · impossibility · paradoxical · dilemma · closed-loop
disorientation
Loss of spatial awareness
trance · fugue · blackout · confusion · awakening · bewilderment · realization · consciousness · awareness · moment
novel
New and unusual
- science-fictionSpeculative technology-based literature
- narrativeAccount of events
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
plot · characters · speculative · fantasy · genre · literature · author · protagonist · setting · world-building
timeslippresent moment
Current point in time
linear time · normal time · real time · synchronicity · chronological order
timesliprealism
Accepting things as they are
contemporary fiction · naturalism · slice of life · documentary
time, slip, slippery, timer, timely, slipping, timed, timing, slipped