A patient describes time feeling as though it is moving in bursts, sometimes seeming to leap forward suddenly. When asked, he can still correctly state the date, day of the week, and his location. Before revealing the answer: does his accurate orientation rule out a genuine disturbance in how he is experiencing time?
No, it does not. The phenomenon's own text is explicit that this is a felt, subjective sense of time's pace, separate from actual clock time and from ordinary orientation, and that the two can occur independently of one another. His intact orientation confirms this is not a confusional disorientation, but it does not rule out a genuine distortion of his personal experience of time passing, which is exactly what he is describing.
References
- Casey, P. & Kelly, B. (2019). Fish's Clinical Psychopathology, 4th ed. Ch. 3, 'Disorders of Perception'.