根据H.P.洛夫克拉夫特的《时间的阴影》(The Shadow Out of Time)改编,这是一个教授癫痫发作导致完全健忘症的故事。当他恢复健康时,他变得如此与众不同,他的家人都抛弃了他。五年来,他收集了自己专业以外的知识,然后又发作了一次。当他醒来时,他又恢复了自我,但现在他已经记不起两次袭击之间的五年了。他开始做奇怪的梦,试图找出自己在不记得的五年里做了什么。他所发现的,再加上他不断增长的梦想现实,让他相信,正在发生着比单纯的性格转变更黑暗的事情。Based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuperates he is so different his family deserts him. He gathers knowledge of things outside his specialty for five years, then has another seizure. When he reawakens he is himself again, but now he has no memory of the five years between the attacks. He begins having bizarre dreams, and tries to find out what he was doing during the five years he can't remember. What he discovers, combined with the growing reality of his dreams, convinces him that something much darker than a mere personality shift was going on.
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