“[Time] is a man‐made notion which we have projected into our environment for our own particular purposes” (Leach 1979:227). Although time is a structuring principle by which reality is ordered, it is difficult to understand. Time is measured and validated by clocks, calendars and sequence of events, but it can also be created and changed in memories, dreams, thoughts, reminiscences and speculations. It can be suspended, wasted and killed, but inevitably time determines reality. One who markedly alters time and reality so as not to be compatible with the surrounding social milieu is thought to be abnormal. As Alzheimer's victims Suffer from age and time disorientation, it is instructive to ask if such misrepresentations reveal a logic and insight into the patients’ perceptions of reality. Taking a cue from Turner (1969; 1974), the examination of the apparent abnormal behavior of self in chaos presented by the Alzheimer's patient, although seemingly superficial, reveals a complex phenomenon with a deeper s...