The onset of generalized amnesia can be sudden, stress-induced, and may be accompanied by a dissociative fugue, meaning a temporary period of disorientation and wandering or travel.
Sometimes dissociative amnesia is accompanied by dissociative fugue, where a person suddenly wanders away from their home or community without a clear memory of having done that.
Or in this case, I was already distracted and I was in a state that was similar to a fugue state, but not a fugue state because I was talking and I wasn't in some general ether.
So I see a lot of young men playing video games, smoking weed, kind of doing nothing with their lives, but it doesn't matter because they're just in a kind of little fugue state.
Thus he would listen while Lo-Tsen marshaled some intricate fugue rhythm, and wonder what lay behind the faint impersonal smile that stirred her lips into the likeness of an opening flower.
But it turns out that she does because she does have certain, she goes into these kind of, As Mark said, fugue states and drifts off, comes back and snaps back.