real time = 'a point or period of time in actuality'; (also adj.)

[Jonathan Lighter]

1988 Nancy Anisfield in W. J. Searle, ed. _Search and Clear_ (Bowling Green,
O.: Bowling Green U. P.) 58: [T]he charge...is enacted twice, once in real
time (42 pages into the novel) and once in Paul Berlin's imagination.
_Ibid._ 59: The novel is divided into real time...flashbacks...and
imagination....[M]emory and imagination...are as important and powerful as
"real time" thought.

Not a surprise but kind of early. I think.

JL

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