Quantum Leap

When you find yourself in the middle of a situation where you have no idea what is going on, but everyone else around you assumes you do.

The term is a reference to the TV show where the lead character is trapped in time and travels therein by leaping into the body of someone in the past, but having no idea who he is or why he is there. In order to leave the body, the lead character must figure out what "situation/conflict" must be resolved or wrong must be righted by the host body. The people around him assume he is the person whose body he occupies, so anything he does, the people around him think it is the host body doing it.

"I just quantum leaped into a phone conversation with Karen. She started talking to me about something that she thought I already knew, but I had no idea what she was talking about."

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