Weird flashbacks

Toxy · May 15, 2011

Sup guys. Lately I've been getting really weird flashbacks of my past memories that I totally forgot about, and sometimes I even get memories that don't make sense at all?
Like I'll have a flashback about a memory I don't remember, and the feeling of that memory was extremely foreign, almost as if I was on another planet.
Now I'm starting to think that I'm getting memories of past lives because of that foreign feeling. Has anyone else been having this lately?
It happens much faster and more intense when I'm meditating btw.

coolrunningsdro · May 15, 2011

Ya I kinda get what you mean. I had a very strange day a few months ago. About 7 or 8 times that day, I would experience these strange flashbacks of past dreams. They would only last for a few seconds and I could never fully understand what was happening in these flashbacks. I would try to piece together what was going on, but it would be out of my memory seconds later. It was extremely frustrating. These flashbacks were very vivid, and would occur while I was doing everyday activities- watching tv, doing a math problem....they would happen at random it seemed. I can't really describe the feeling of them, other than that they were much like what you feel when you experience deja-vu. I've never done psychedelics or any thing like that. I only smoke weed, although I no longer do. The other weird thing is that it hasn't happened since, just on that one day. I did some research online and found people who had experienced similar things, but no cause.

dirtydingusus · May 16, 2011

there have been times in my life when i lived only for those moments.....

i have at times described the feeling of it as if i had dreamed my entire life before i could speak....

first the sound would come -of the most perfect deep music ....

quickly followed by the taste of copper and that "off" feeling in my stomach...

and as the music rises so does the vibration all thru every cell of my body....

gray and black static would come into my vision from the sides and close in around me....

then the darkness would tear open and for a moment...i could see into that place where the music came from ...

into that whole other world that was always trying to reach me...

the place i was always trying to get to...

i loved it so much that when it came i would do all i could to hold onto it...as long as possible...

i searched for that feeling in everything...

often repeating to myself phrases i had heard withing the music....

i believed if i tried hard enough one day i could get to that place.....

well eventually i did...

only we dont get to remember what we see there do we......

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anything like that^?

ete23 · May 16, 2011

I can separate my dream memories from my actual memories

budsmokn420 · May 17, 2011

A couple yeas ago (maybe 2 years?) I had a really, really vivid dream. The dream took place at my house and in my neighborhood. It felt like everything was absolutely normal and I was just having a normal day. Even when I look back on it now I can't really recall if it was dream or not. It feels like a regular memory...like I actually lived it. I'm pretty sure it was a dream though cause I remember things being sorta strange and there are something's that stick out in the memory that reassure me it was in fact a dream.

Anyways, a couple months ago I remember being outside of my house and I found myself doing the same exact thing, in the same exact spot where I was in the dream. It was really trippy to say the least. I literally felt like I couldnt define reality in that moment. It felt like the most lucid dream ever besides I couldn't do whatever I wanted. But the feeling of me being inside a dream was so intense...words can't describe.

That was probably the strangest experience I've ever had with memories and dreams.

dirtydingusus · May 17, 2011

i described it to the doc as being like a flash back from a dream...

something so intense that our language lacked the ability to properly describe it....

coolrunningsdro · May 17, 2011

i described it to the doc as being like a flash back from a dream...

something so intense that our language lacked the ability to properly describe it....
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Yea man that's like what I was saying above. I'm just curious, what did your doctor say to you?

dirtydingusus · May 17, 2011

coolrunningsdro said:

Yea man that's like what I was saying above. I'm just curious, what did your doctor say to you?
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http://forum.grasscity.com/general/437616-brain-sergery-not-rockit-sceince.html

my story^
cant tell you that you have what i have.....
but check it out.....
i didnt find out till i was 32...and it became something much more intense then it had been before.....many people have this and never get diagnosed....because it never becomes enough of a problem for them to need to seek help.....
if you check the link...you will see how my shit progressed and became a problem....

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), now more commonly called complex partial seizure disorder so as to include seizures that originate in the frontal foci, straddles the borderland between psychiatry and neurology. Since the condition may involve gross disorders of thought and emotion, patients with temporal lobe epilepsy frequently come to the attention of psychiatrists. But since symptoms may occur in the absence of generalized grand mal seizures, physicians may often fail to recognize the epileptic origin of the disorder. Indeed, misdiagnosis and failures of diagnosis are common in TLE. Fortunately, the illness is marked by certain "signature" symptoms that can aid in its identification.

John Hughlings Jackson observed in the late 1800s that seizures originating in the medial temporal lobe often result in a "dreamy state" involving vivid memory-like hallucinations sometimes accompanied by dÃ©jÃ vu or jamais vu (interpreting frequently encountered people, places or events as unfamiliar). Jackson wrote of "highly elaborated mental states, sometimes called intellectual aura," involving "dreams mixing up with present thoughts," a "double consciousness" and a "feeling of being somewhere else." While the "dreamy state" can occur in isolation, it is often accompanied by fear and a peculiar form of abdominal discomfort associated with loss of contact with surroundings, and automatisms involving the mouth and GI tract (licking, lip-smacking, grunting and other sounds).

Experiential Illusions

In the 1940s and '50s, Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon at the Montreal Neurological Institute, artificially elicited "dreamy states" by cortically stimulating the lateral temporal neocortex, the anterior hippocampus or the amygdala in awake epileptic patients prior to their surgical resections. During these operating room experiments, the patients experienced what Penfield referred to as "experiential illusions."

These illusions involved an alteration, sometimes subtle, of the person's relationship to his or her environment, as well as emotional response to it. In contrast to psychotic persons, Penfield's patients remained fully aware that their altered interpretation was an illusion. A friend's voice may sound remote, or a well-known living room may appear unfamiliar, but the meaning is preserved, the voice does not become depersonalized, nor does the living room lose its identity. Even those patients describing feelings of unreality state that they know at the same time what reality is, observed Penfield. This is an important distinction from schizophrenia and other psychotic states.

For example, a patient of mine with temporal lobe epilepsy often feels compelled to stare for brief moments at a coffee table in her living room since, as she put it, "It just doesn't look exactly like my coffee table." After a few seconds, the feeling disappears. At no time does she think that the table has actually changed; the only thing that varies is her perception and "interpretation" of it.

Altogether Penfield (Mullan and Penfield 1959) divided the illusions of interpretation into four groups:

Auditory illusions accompanied by the perception that sounds were louder or clearer, fainter or more distinct, nearer or farther away;

Visual illusions where things seemed clearer or blurred, nearer or farther away, larger or smaller; fatter or thinner;

Illusions of recognition where present experience seemed familiar, strange, altered or unreal; and

Illusions of emotion consisting of feelings of fear, loneliness, sorrow or disgust.

None of these groups of symptoms are unique to epilepsy. Migraine sufferers regularly experience illusions of sound, sight, taste and smell.

True hallucinations-those without external stimulus-may occur in complex partial seizures, especially the classic olfactory or gustatory hallucination seen with uncinate fits.

In a psychiatric or neuropsychiatric practice, the most commonly encountered illusions of interpretation are those of emotion. Typically, these are sudden in onset and unrelated to conscious experiences or anything in the environment:

A 40-year-old patient with a 20-year history of mental illness had been diagnosed at various times as having either schizophrenia or borderline personality disorder. She regularly experienced sudden episodes of dread that occurred without warning and without relationship to any inner experiences or anything happening around her.

On one occasion while waiting for a cab to come to her home to take her and her husband to an event they had both been looking forward to attending, she experienced such an overwhelming sense of dread she sank to the floor with a compulsion to hurt herself. Because of the strong visceral component to her symptoms and the inexplicable sudden change in mood, a neurological workup was ordered. An electroencephalogram (EEG) "showed the presence of an intermittent epileptiform disturbance confined to the right anterior and mid-temporal regions. EEG findings would be compatible with partial complex seizure disorder." On carbamazepine(Drug information on carbamazepine) (Tegretol), she has been free of the seizures for 10 years.

In most instances, the emotion experienced as part of the seizure is a disturbing one variously described as dread or a feeling of impending doom; in others, the emotion may be experienced as pleasant or euphoric, as Dostoyevsky described. Since the feelings can arise de novo without any identifiable precipitant, an incorrect diagnosis of an acute panic attack may be entertained. Almost always, however, the patient will describe additional experiences that will help in the differential diagnosis. Included here is a strong visceral component to the symptoms: a feeling or sensation, almost always unpleasant, traveling upward from stomach to head. In an attempt to explain the experience, the patient will sweep his or her hands upward starting at the abdomen. Descriptions such as "a wave," "something flowing upward" are often employed.

Often such details must be elicited by careful, tactful questioning, because the patient will be reluctant to describe the experience; its intensity and bizarre nature arouses fears of insanity. The physician frequently can sidestep this reaction by asking: "Have your episodes ever involved anything strange?" with a lack of emphasis on the word strange, thereby suggesting that strange experiences are not at all unusual with these kinds of seizures. Another approach is to say: "On occasion persons who have experienced some of the things you have told me about have described other experiences they have been reluctant to discuss because they were afraid other people, even their doctors, might think them crazy." Questions about specific epileptic experiences should be delayed until the end of the interview to avoid suggestibility.

TLE Personality?

Controversy continues as to the validity of a so-called temporal lobe personality. Certainly, many of the patients tend to be obsessive and over-inclusive in their thinking, often satisfying some or all of the requirements for obsessive-compulsive personality: hyperphogia may be seen in some patients. Their speech and thinking is "viscous" and ponderous with a tendency toward loquacity and the insistence on the elaboration of fine and often tedious distinctions. Outbursts of irritability, rather than frank violence, are hallmarks of TLE.

When interviewing suspected TLE patients, it's important to inquire about their birth and any complications of the pregnancy. Forceps deliveries, now almost unheard of, were quite common years ago and led to compressive injuries of the brain, anoxic damage to Ammon's horn in the hippocampus and the subsequent temporal lobe epilepsy. Also ask about generalized seizures, head injuries, concussions, temper tantrums and, with males, a history of aggression, fire setting, truancy and impulsive behaviors. Has the patient experienced frequent dÃ©jÃ vu, jamais vu, depersonalization, autoscopy or sudden mood swings accompanied by visceral or oral sensations? Do others complain that the patient often doesn't seem to be listening, appears to be daydreaming or otherwise preoccupied? Often the patients are aware of their lapses, and almost all of them experience some form of memory disturbance, even if nothing more than a vague inability to grasp things with sufficient precision.

Other rare presentations include anorexia nervosa (Signer and Benson 1990), multiple personality (Schenk and Bear 1981) or compulsive water drinking (Remillard, et al. 1981). Spitting and embarrassment have been described as the aura of a complex partial seizure (Devinsky and colleagues 1982; Hecker and colleagues 1972).

Finally, the clinician should inquire as to a family history of migraine, since migraine is overrepresented in families with TLE and can mimic the majority of TLE symptoms.

Tactful inquiry may result in anecdotal reports of sexual disturbances in some patients with TLE. Most common is a global hyposexuality affecting both libidinal and genital arousal. In individual instances, such patients may be mistakenly diagnosed as exhibiting hypoactive sexual desire disorder. These two can be distinguished by eliciting on history other hallmarks of temporal lobe epilepsy. Although rarer than hyposexuality, a great variety of other sexual disorders may be encountered in TLE. These include fetishism, transvestic fetishism, sadomasochism, pedophilia, frotteurism and voyeurism. During the seizures, the patients may also experience genital sensations, even feelings of sexual excitement evoked by the epileptic discharges.

Episodes of frank psychosis can be the initial presentation of TLE: a 38-year-old businessman with a history of childhood staring spells and petit mal epilepsy confirmed by EEG, came under considerable work pressure and began an around-the-clock work marathon lasting two days. Suddenly, early in the morning of his second "all-nighter," he experienced a "realization" that his difficulties must be conveyed to the president of the United States. After his arrest at the White House and transfer to the psychiatric ward of a local teaching hospital, an EEG was ordered for him because clinicians uncovered a history of childhood epilepsy. It showed bursts of generalized spike/wave discharges consistent with a generalized seizure disorder.

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan showed "two foci of increased signal noted in the medial aspect of the right temporal horn associated with a widening of the right temporal horn." A neurology consult suggested the use of anticonvulsants only if the patient became "symptomatic." The psychiatrist concluded: "Since the patient had no observable physical symptoms of seizures, we would withhold the anticonvulsant at this time." On low doses of antipsychotics the patient improved, another tip-off that his psychosis was atypical in etiology. (Clinicians should note, however, that antipsychotics tend to lower the seizure threshold, thereby increasing patient's incidence of seizure.)

At discharge he left the hospital uncertain and worried about what had happened to him. When I saw him in initial consultation several months later, the psychosis had cleared and he was no longer on any medications. Nonetheless, he continued to experience difficulties with memory and "getting my thinking exactly right." Neuropsychological testing showed "deficits consistent with the local or remote effects of a right temporal lesion." When placed on carbamazepine, the patient reported improvement in thinking and memory.

In retrospect, the most likely explanation was this: The lack of sleep and food coupled with stress led to the onset of a schizophreniform episode in a person with a latent seizure disorder. Because the episode was not associated with any signs of generalized epilepsy, it was not recognized as an example of complex partial seizure disorder by either psychiatrist or neurologist . After the psychosis had cleared, the patient was still left with a problem involving memory and focus originating from the hippocampus, a secondary effect of the abnormality in the right temporal region. The memory disturbance improved with anticonvulsant administration.

TLE also may be responsible for chronic rather than just acute psychoses. While any of the symptoms of schizophrenia may be encountered, paranoid traits are the most common. TLE patients can be distinguished from schizophrenic patients by the maintenance, when not acutely ill, of warm affect and good rapport. In addition to the history, the diagnosis of complex partial seizure disorder can be aided by EEG. However, since such diagnosis remains a clinical one, it should be noted that several negative EEGs do not rule out the diagnosis of TLE in a given patient. Other diagnostic aids include MRI, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET). Interictal SPECT of cerebral blood flow is not nearly as helpful as ictal SPECT. Even more sensitive, although not generally available, is PET imaging of interictal cerebral metabolism. PET permits greater spatial resolution and versatility. Only MRI can image the structural changes associated with the underlying epileptic process. Quantitative evidence of hippocampal volume loss is correlated with seizure onset in medial temporal structures.

The treatment of TLE is complicated by the fact that many times improved seizure control via anticonvulsants leads to deterioration of the neuropsychiatric status. Schizophrenia-like epileptic psychoses often emerge when anticonvulsants are normalizing or improving the seizure activity. If this antithesis isn't recognized, the psychosis will soon become more of a problem than the seizures. One expert, Dietrich Blumer, M.D., has gone so far as to claim: "It is probable that the modern schizophrenia-like epileptic psychoses are largely iatrogenic in nature, caused by modern ability to control seizures."

TLE management presents a conundrum. While the illness is an epileptic one and treated by neurologists, many neurologists remain unfamiliar with and even uninterested in its neuropsychiatric components. But by ignoring the experiential symptoms, the neurologist deprives the patient of the opportunity to coherently integrate all aspects of the epilepsy. It may also cement the patient's misconception that in addition to the epilepsy, he or she suffers from a "mental illness."

Total management of TLE by a psychiatrist is also not without problems. Although temporal lobe epileptic patients are particularly intriguing to psychiatrists because of the nature of the symptoms, these "psychic" seizures can generalize at any time into psychomotor status or grand mal attacks. What's more, neither the timing nor the seriousness of grand mal episodes can be predicted; the initial generalized seizure sometimes occurs many years after the first manifestations of the illness and may culminate in status epilepticus and death.

For these reasons, a physician should undertake the treatment of TLE patients only if he or she has sufficient training and experience in the overall management of epilepsy. When this isn't the case, close collaboration between psychiatrist and neurologist offers the best venue for successful management of this fascinating "bridge" between neurology and psychiatry.
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coolrunningsdro · May 17, 2011

Thanks for the read man much appreciated. The strange thing is that it only happened to me that one day, but multiple times throughout the day. So i dont think I have what you had. I felt detached from reality and like I was dreaming while I was awake. It would only last 5-10 seconds though. Each of these flashbacks would trigger some sort of memory though or as it seemed I had dreamed it before. How long did each one these flashbacks last for you?

dirtydingusus · May 17, 2011

coolrunningsdro said:

Thanks for the read man much appreciated. The strange thing is that it only happened to me that one day. How long did these flashbacks last for you?
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i had them my whole life and didnt know what they were.....
they could last a few seconds to a few minuets.....

at different times in my life they would come more often....
there were times i went long enough between to have forgotten about them....untill the moment one would start.....

everything i have read tells me there are many people who could be considered temporally sensitive....
having such minor versions of these episodes so as to not even notice something happening....
people can be found with everything between that^ and full generalized epilepsy....

read some of this http://forum.grasscity.com/spirituality-philosophy/general/4...t-sceince.html
and obviously what i already posted here...if you think you need to talk to a doc...it will be the neurologist you want to see....

dirtydingusus · May 17, 2011

coolrunningsdro said:

Thanks for the read man much appreciated. The strange thing is that it only happened to me that one day, but multiple times throughout the day. So i dont think I have what you had. I felt detached from reality and like I was dreaming while I was awake. It would only last 5-10 seconds though. Each of these flashbacks would trigger some sort of memory though or as it seemed I had dreamed it before. How long did each one these flashbacks last for you?
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yeah- seriously....look into this....

i totaled 3 vehicles the day i was diagnosed....

and yeah ...what you discribe is just like what i have ....
sometimes many times in a day.....sometimes only a few seconds....

here- dont know that i buy into everything these guys say....but this gives more of a look into what this shit is like.....and what people with it experience....

Treading the Labyrinth

"With TLE, I see things slightly different than before. I have visions and images that normal people don’t have. Some of my seizures are like entering another dimension, the closest to religious or spiritual feelings I’ve ever had. Epilepsy has given me a rare vision and insight into myself, and sometimes beyond myself, and it has played to my creative side. Without TLE, I would not have begun to sculpt."

This testimony comes from a woman who suffers from — and, obviously, often exults in — temporal lobe epilepsy. This condition (TLE, for short), is caused by unusual electrical activity in the brain’s temporal lobes A significant proportion of people with TLE report that their seizures often bring on extraordinary experiences of transcendent wonder, luminous insight — or, at times, harrowing, uncanny fear.

Take, for example, the numerous reported cases of "alien abduction." TLE researcher Eve LaPlante has noted that many abductees feel mild, epileptic-like symptoms just before they are "captured." Some abductees feel heat on one side of their faces, hear a ringing in their ears, and see flashes of light prior to an abduction. Others report a cessation of sound and feeling, or an overwhelming feeling of apprehension. All of this is typical of certain kinds of epileptic seizures. In fact, LaPlante suggests that the most famous abductee of our time, best-selling author Whitley Strieber, suffers from TLE.

In 1987, Strieber wrote the book Communion which described his abduction by 3 1/2 foot aliens with two dark holes for eyes. In his account, Strieber exhibits various symptoms of TLE: jamais vu (the feeling of never having been in what should be a familiar place — the opposite of deja vu); formication (feeling bugs crawling under the skin); vivid smells, hallucinations, rapid heartbeats, the sensation of rising and falling, and partial amnesia. Magnetic resonance imaging of Strieber’s brain has revealed "occasional punctate foci of high signal intensity" in his left temporoparietal region, which is suggestive of scarring that could lead to TLE.

Such alien abduction stories can tell us about the workings of the mind. Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, found that people with frequent bursts of electrical activity in their temporal lobes report sensations of flying, floating, or leaving the body, as well as other mystical experiences. By applying magnetic fields to the brain, he can also induce odd mental experiences — possibly caused by bursts of neuron firing in the temporal lobes. For example, he has made people feel as if two alien hands grabbed their shoulders and distorted their legs when he applied magnetic fields to their brains.

Our modern fasicnation with other such phenomena, such as ESP, past-life regression, and out-of-the-body experiences, may also be the result of mild, undiagnosed TLE. It’s a fertile field, awaiting more research to bring such mysteries out of the realm of the "paranormal" and into the fascinating labyrinth of the brain.
Fear and Trembling

Has TLE changed the course of civilization? LaPlante and many other TLE experts speculate that the mystical religious experiences of some of the great prophets were induced by TLE — because the historical writings describe classic TLE symptoms. The religious prophets most often thought to have had epilepsy are Mohammad, Moses, and St. Paul. Dostoevsky, another famous epileptic whose works are filled with ecstatic visions of universal love (and terrible nightmares of uncanny fear and radical evil), thought it was obvious that Mohammad’s visions of God were triggered by epilepsy. "Mohammad assures us in this Koran that he had seen Paradise," Doestevsky notes. "He did not lie. He had indeed been in Paradise — during an attack of epilepsy, from which he suffered, as I do."

When Mohammad first had his visions of God, he felt oppressed, smothered, as if his breath were being squeezed from his chest. Later he heard a voice calling his name, but when he turned to find the source of the voice, no one was there. The local Christians, Jews, and Arabs called him insane. When he was five years old, he told his foster parents, "Two men in white raiment came and threw me down and opened up my belly and searched inside for I don’t know what." This description is startling similar to the alien abduction experience described by people with TLE.

Note that the overriding emotion experienced by Mohammed, Moses and St. Paul during their religious visions was not one of rapture and joy but rather of fear. When Moses heard the voice of God from a burning bush, he hid his face and was frightened. Luke and Paul both agreed that Paul suffered from an unknown "illness" or "bodily weakness" which he called his "thorn in the flesh." Many biblical commentators have attributed this to either migraine headaches or epilepsy. Paul did once have malaria, which involves a high fever that can damage the brain. Other psychologists have noted that likely TLE sufferers such as Moses, Flaubert, Saint Paul, and Dostevesky were also famous for their rages.

However, psychologist William James has argued that religious states are not less profound simply because they can be induced by mental anomalies:

"Even more perhaps than other kinds of genius, religious leaders have been subject to abnormal psychical visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensitivity liable to obsessions and fixed ideas; and frequently they have fallen into trances, heard voices, seen visions, and presented all sorts of peculiarities which are ordinarily classed as pathological. Often, moreover, these pathological features have helped to give them their religious authority and influence. To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value is quite illogical and arbitrary. [Because if that were the case], none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis-beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of the possessor’s body at the time. Saint Paul certainly once had an epileptoid, if not an epileptic, seizure, but there is not a single one of our states of mind, high or low, healthy or morbid, that has not some organic processes as its condition."

More recently, several TLE nuns have provided further evidence for an epileptic root of many mystical religious experiences. For example, one former nun "apprehended" God in TLE seizures and described the experience:

"Suddenly everything comes together in a moment — everything adds up, and you’re flooded with a sense of joy, and you’re just about to grasp it, and then you lose it and you crawl into an attack. It’s easy to see how, in a prescientific age, an epileptic or any temporal lobe fringe experience like that could be thought to be God Himself."

Even the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel had a TLE-like vision reminiscent of modern UFO reports — the famous, fearsome Ma’aseh Merkabah, the Vision of the Chariot:

"And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.... Also out of the midst thereof, came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance, they had the likeness of a man. And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass."
The Light of the Storm

LaPlante is just one of a growing number of writers and researchers delving into TLE-induced religious experiences. For example, Professor Michael Persinger from Ontario does research on the neurophysiology of religious feelings, and believes that spiritual experiences come from altered electrical activity in the brain. David Bear from Harvard Medical School believes that "a temporal lobe focus in superior individuals (like van Gogh, Dostoevsky, Mohammad, Saint Paul and Moses) may spark an extraordinary search for the entity we alternatively call truth or beauty." Religion, then, is sometimes our interpretation of altered temporolimbic electrical activity. This is not to demean the mystical experience, because TLE personalities have obviously accomplished great things, whose depth and meaning have radiated far beyond the electric storms of a single cranium.

LaPlante, in her book Seized, aptly sums up the growing evidence linking TLE and creativity:

"Hidden or diagnosed, admitted or unknown, the mental states that occur in TLE seizures are more than simply neurological symptoms. In people like Tennyson, Saint Paul, and van Gogh these states may have provided material for religion and art. People with TLE, whether or not they know the physiological cause of their seizures, often incorporate their symptoms into poems, stories and myths. And the disorder does more than provide the stuff of religious experience and creative work. TLE is associated with personality change even when seizures are not occurring; it amplifies the very traits that draw people to religion and art."

Clifford Pickover received his Ph.D. from Yale University’s Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. His most recent book is Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen. His web site covering these and many other scientific topics can be found at: www.pickover.com.
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Read more: http://meta-religion.com/Psychiatry/The_Paranormal/trascendent_experiences.htm#ixzz1MaZwtzlw

Toxy · May 17, 2011

dirtydingusus said:

http://forum.grasscity.com/general/437616-brain-sergery-not-rockit-sceince.html

my story^
cant tell you that you have what i have.....
but check it out.....
i didnt find out till i was 32...and it became something much more intense then it had been before.....many people have this and never get diagnosed....because it never becomes enough of a problem for them to need to seek help.....
if you check the link...you will see how my shit progressed and became a problem....
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Wow that column sounded exactly how I feel sometimes.
When I walk down the street, sometimes I get this strange feeling of deja vu, and a "dreamy state", as if I'm in a dream. It sounds simple but its so much more complex and intriguing then explained to be honest. I find it very fascinating when this kind of stuff happens though because I feel like I'm being enlightened towards something. Sounds schizophrenic but whatever if I like it then shit, lmao.

dirtydingusus · May 17, 2011

Toxy said:

Wow that column sounded exactly how I feel sometimes.
When I walk down the street, sometimes I get this strange feeling of deja vu, and a "dreamy state", as if I'm in a dream. It sounds simple but its so much more complex and intriguing then explained to be honest. I find it very fascinating when this kind of stuff happens though because I feel like I'm being enlightened towards something. Sounds schizophrenic but whatever if I like it then shit, lmao.
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you sound alot like me.....
as stated previously...there have been times in my life when i lived for these experiences..... and it is much more complex then words make it seam....

"Sounds schizophrenic" -very

TLE also may be responsible for chronic rather than just acute psychoses. While any of the symptoms of schizophrenia may be encountered, paranoid traits are the most common. TLE patients can be distinguished from schizophrenic patients by the maintenance, when not acutely ill, of warm affect and good rapport.
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Toxy · May 17, 2011

dirtydingusus said:

you sound alot like me.....
as stated previously...there have been times in my life when i lived for these experiences..... and it is much more complex then words make it seam....

"Sounds schizophrenic" -very
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True that.

I got a question. Do you have lots of dreams inside of dreams by any chance? I've been having that happen to me so much lately.

dirtydingusus · May 17, 2011

Toxy said:

True that.

I got a question. Do you have lots of dreams inside of dreams by any chance? I've been having that happen to me so much lately.
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try and be alittle more specific?
i have very vivid dreams....
and can remember dreams from before i could talk...but have a hard time remembering last week....and dont remember last summer at all....
i get the pleasure of meeting people who know me...but i have no idea who they are ....

of coarse the memory issues did not begin until i progressed from the simple partial seizures described here..to complex.....(the main difference being ....simple- remain aware....complex-blackout.....)

dirtydingusus · May 17, 2011

Simple Partial Seizures

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What are they like?

They are remarkably different from person to person, depending on the part of the brain where they begin. The one thing they all have in common is that the person remains alert and can remember what happens. Here are a couple of experiences:

"I almost enjoy them. The feeling of dÃ©ja vu, as if I've lived through this moment and I even know what's going to be said next. Everything seems brighter and more alive."
"It is a pressure that starts in my stomach, then rises to my chest and throat. When it reaches my chest, I smell an unpleasant odor of something burnt. At the same time I feel anxious."

Sometimes the seizure activity spreads to other parts of the brain, so another type of seizure follows the simple partial seizure. This can be a complex partial seizure or a secondarily generalized seizure.
How long do they last?

Only a short time, usually less than 2 minutes.
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Doctors often divide simple partial seizures into categories depending on the type of symptoms the person experiences:

Motor seizures:

These cause a change in muscle activity. For example, a person may have abnormal movements such as jerking of a finger or stiffening of part of the body. These movements may spread, either staying on one side of the body (opposite the affected area of the brain) or extending to both sides. Other examples are weakness, which can even affect speech, and coordinated actions such as laughter or automatic hand movements. The person may or may not be aware of these movements.

Sensory seizures:

These cause changes in any one of the senses. People with sensory seizures may smell or taste things that aren't there; hear clicking, ringing, or a person's voice when there is no actual sound; or feel a sensation of "pins and needles" or numbness. Seizures may even be painful for some patients. They may feel as if they are floating or spinning in space. They may have visual hallucinations, seeing things that aren't there (a spot of light, a scene with people). They also may experience illusions-distortions of true sensations. For instance, they may believe that a parked car is moving farther away, or that a person's voice is muffled when it's actually clear.

Autonomic seizures:

These cause changes in the part of the nervous system that automatically controls bodily functions. These common seizures may include strange or unpleasant sensations in the stomach, chest, or head; changes in the heart rate or breathing; sweating; or goose bumps.
Psychic seizures:

>These seizures change how people think, feel, or experience things. They may have problems with memory, garbled speech, an inability to find the right word, or trouble understanding spoken or written language. They may suddenly feel emotions like fear, depression, or happiness with no outside reason. Some may feel as though they are outside their body or may have feelings of dÃ©ja vu ("I've been through this before") or jamais vu ("This is new to me"- even though the setting is really familiar).

Who gets them?

Anybody can get them. They may be more likely in people who have had a head injury, brain infection, stroke, or brain tumor but most of the time the cause is unknown.

Simple Partial Seizures | epilepsy.com

tegula123 · Sep 21, 2013

I also have these "!DReam flashbacks" Anything new???

MacTonite · Sep 21, 2013

so much words. im fine with my weird flashbacks..i dont wanna know what they mean or why they occur if it means i have to read all that.

tegula123 · Sep 21, 2013

I think you do not know what we are talking about, or...

tegula123 · Sep 21, 2013

coolrunningsdro said:

Thanks for the read man much appreciated. The strange thing is that it only happened to me that one day, but multiple times throughout the day. So i dont think I have what you had. I felt detached from reality and like I was dreaming while I was awake. It would only last 5-10 seconds though. Each of these flashbacks would trigger some sort of memory though or as it seemed I had dreamed it before. How long did each one these flashbacks last for you?
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