Posted by Mitch on July 3, 2001, at 0:05:09
In reply to Re: aha! Deja Vu dreamy states » Mitch, posted by Zo on July 2, 2001, at 23:42:55
Zo,
What I am describing is not acutely *episodic* in the case of a seizure or a panic attack for example. All I can say is that when I experience perceptual stimulii it tends to "echo" or "hang-around" in my head. Actually, I think the experience I described is actually quite common-you know after you come out of a movie theatre in the daytime after being inside for a couple of hours? You have to get your "land-legs" so to speak. You are somewhat disoriented. It just takes a lot longer for me to "shift gears" back into a different perceptual frame of mind. I have also noticed this especially with stimulant meds or AD's that boost norepinephrine which helps with my ADHD. Sound becomes more "directional" and "discrete", whereas normally it just seems to come from inside my head for the most part. There is a shift from the "subjective" perception in my mind of sound to a more *objective* experience of *listening* to the music.
Mitch
> Mitch,
> I'm not aware of TLE seizure states lasting for a few hours. . .but then, it's relationship to migraine. . .why the hell not. I do know the perceptual feeling that everything is a movie. Depersonalization doesn't quite say how literal this and similar TLE states are. But for me, anyway, they pass after a loooong few minutes, and on Neurontin, have largely disappeared.
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> > Just an FYI, I have noticed recently that if I sit too close (within five or six feet) to the TV and watch it attentively for very long and go outside and drive around I feel all "spaced out" for a couple of hours. I just don't feel like "I'm there". It is like the whole world is just a movie I am watching that I am not part of. I just have a suspicion of TLE and family epilepsy, though.
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> > Mitch
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