Nonlinear narrative,
disjointed narrative or
disrupted narrative is a
narrative technique, sometimes used in
literature, film,
hypertext websites and other narratives, where events are portrayed, for example out of
chronological order, or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line. It is often used to mimic the structure and recall of human
memory, but has been applied for other reasons as well.