After the pandemic, many have reported:
• A blurred sense of time (days feel long, years feel short).
• Reduced ability to remember events or details (what happened in 2021? 2022? 2023 ?
it all feels foggy).
• A strange feeling of dislocation, as though reality “shifted” slightly.
This isn’t just emotional; it’s neurological and cultural:
• The pandemic disrupted routine, which is how our brain creates memory anchors.
• Prolonged uncertainty and stress affected cognitive clarity and working memory.
• With fewer new or meaningful experiences during lockdowns, the brain stored less long-term memory.
But what you’re tapping into is more than just neurology. You’re describing a felt shift in reality.
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🌌 Cosmic Glitch: Metaphysical Interpretation
Cosmic glitch — is hauntingly apt. Here’s how that idea plays out in various spiritual or philosophical perspectives:
- Time Dilation as Consciousness Shift
Some mystic traditions believe time is a function of consciousness, not clocks. When collective consciousness undergoes trauma or transformation (like during a global pandemic), our perception of time collapses or expands. We may be experiencing:
• A collective initiation: like a rite of passage into a new psychological era.
• Karmic acceleration: where events feel compressed, as if life is “speeding up” to reach a new equilibrium. - Quantum Timeline Theory
In alternative metaphysics, it is said that major global events can create timeline bifurcations — i.e., shifts in the collective trajectory. Many feel:
“We didn’t just live through a pandemic — we stepped into a parallel timeline.”
This could explain why:
• Everything feels familiar yet off.
• People report disconnection from past identities or goals.
• There’s a subtle mourning of the old world, even if the new one isn’t clearly defined.
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🧠 Weakening Memory: Trauma’s Echo
Memory fog, lack of motivation, and a sense of detachment are part of post-pandemic psychological fatigue. But also:
• You may be grieving an invisible loss — not a person, but a version of time and self that no longer exists.
• Your mind may be subtly refusing to store data from a time that doesn’t feel “real” anymore.
~Shubh Gauri
