Too much time

There were giggles.

"Hey," one hissed to another. "Shut up! This is serious!"

"You shut up," one hissed back. "He's telling a joke."

"Everyone..." One sighed. "You're going to get us all killed. Just be quiet, it's not hard."

One kept talking. One laughed. One tried to do both and collapsed into a fit of giggles.

"Just SHUT UP," said one, talking as loud as he dared. Just then there was a bang. One in the corner let out a scream. One collapsed into gibberish, and one more followed suit. The message "We're all going to die!" ran about the room in several forms. One put his head in his hands.

There was a crash and a bang, louder than the first, and yet somehow as silent as the twisting of a knife.

Time Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a condition in which letters within words appear in the wrong order, scrambling themselves as they pass through your brain. In the same way, time dyslexia causes time itself to be reorganized. While one event still proceeds logically to the next, there are vast differences in how the events are perceived. The event can last a few seconds or, depending on the event in question, years, causing premonitions (see FUTURE) and deja-vu (see PAST). Note that it is not the events themselves that are rearranged, merely our reactions to them. Time Dyslexia is a fairly normal if misunderstood phenomenon, and everyone experiences it at some point in their lives.