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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I usually refer to that as having a "squirrelled-up circadian". I have one now as I have been working 1st shift, then third shift, then two shifts together, then....(Squirrelled is a South Texas Colloquialism for completely confused.)
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
Discombobulated? Same sense of being disordered, but not displaced. Well, for that matter, the term "displacement" might just be the best, though it does have several technical meanings, even in psychiatry, but I've seen it used in novels to describe that vague, out of time/out of place feeling.
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i'm not sure whether any of these are really *translations* exactly, but i'm defninitely looking forward to slipping the word "discombobulated" and the expression "squirrelled-up circadian" (or squirrelled-up anything, really) into conversation at the earliest possible opportunity.