Reality

If we really were transported between worlds or epochs, how would our brains cope with such transitions? Would they adjust to one manifestation of reality by forgetting or denying an unacceptably different version? Who better to address such questions than imaginative writers like HG Wells, Poul Anderson and Michael Scott Rohan?

The Time Traveler:

"'I'm damned if it isn't all going...'"
-see Understanding New Worlds.

An Andersonian time traveler:

"His past life, Eve, MacPherson, the world of his time, were dimming in his mind, they were too remote from his present reality. It seemed as if he had never been anything but a follower of the Galactic Empress."
-Poul Anderson, "Flight to Forever" IN Anderson, Past Times (New York, 1984), pp. 207-288 AT CHAPTER FOUR, p. 258.

An Andersonian Time Patrolman explaining that a single extratemporal incursion need not have drastic consequences:

"'Even you folks who were on hand would stop talking much about it, and it'd fade in your recollections. You weren't really affected, and you have your lives to get on with... That's what a brief intervention by the gods is like, in the minds of people here-now.'"
-Poul Anderson, The Shield Of Time (New York, 1991), PART TWO, 209 B. C., p. 115.

A frequent traveler beyond "the Core," discussing a new arrival:

"'She's adrift. So, are you surprised she finds it easier writing this off as some kind of fever dream, a delirium?'"
-Michael Scott Rohan, Chase The Morning (New York, 1992), CHAPTER NINE, p. 246.