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A '''Time Wake''' was an anomaly in the [[Time Vortex]] caused by the use of (primitive) time travel technology. The [[Sixth Doctor]] told [[Peri Brown]] it was "rather like the wake left behind by a ship at sea". The duo encountered one created by [[Tasq]], a [[Time Engineer]] from the [[planet]] [[Bestonas]]. It connected [[London]] in [[January]] [[1986]] to the London of [[1720]].

Time Wakes "healed themselves" after primitive time travel excursions were halted. Until that time, however, they presented themselves as shimmering blue-white rings. People could step directly into the rings and be transported to wherever the Wake took them. The sign of a Wake closing was a gradual constriction of the circumference of the ring. It was possible for Time Wakes to be lethal, if one attempted to enter at a point where the circumference could not accommodate one's personal size. Tasq, for instance, died because he tried to step into a Time Wake that had closed too far. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Wake (short story)|Time Wake]]'')

[[TARDIS]]es additionally left temporal wakes, which were areas in the vortex where it had recently been or would be, meaning a TARDIS could cross its own wake. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Imperial Moon (novel)|Imperial Moon]]'') [[Ramón Salamander]] believed he had drifted through the [[Time Vortex]] in the wake of the Doctor's TARDIS, arriving on [[Earth]] only minutes after him in the [[1960s]], "or perhaps another decade." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Heralds of Destruction (comic story)|The Heralds of Destruction]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear]]'')

Because she merged with part of his TARDIS, the [[Seventh Doctor]] was able to track the wake of the [[Timewyrm]] and follow her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|Timewyrm: Genesys]]'') The [[Headhunter]] programmed [[Morbius]]' [[stellar manipulator]] to follow [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]'s time wake as she locked it onto [[Lucie Miller]]'s [[DNA]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Worldwide Web (audio story)|Worldwide Web]]'') Similarly, the ruptured core of a [[Dalek time machine]] left a temporal wake that dragged the Doctor's TARDIS off course. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Elite (audio story)|The Elite]]'')

Due to his actions in the past on [[Skaro]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] caused a "timewave" that interfered with the [[Time Ring]] and caused himself, [[Harry Sullivan|Harry]], and [[Sarah Jane]] to be scattered across the [[Adelphine Cluster]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Device of Death (novel)|A Device of Death]]'')