Temperal lobe epilepsy

[2pacandhisbrutalshit]

i have t.l.e and i see it as a gift not a disease

[ekahamsa]

I really feel for the people suffering from this.

but i am also very intrigued by it & the effects the seizures bring, deja vu seems very common amongst sufferers & the feeling that they are 2 people.

other famous people who suffered from this were Rudyard Kipling, Phillip k dick & Winston Churchil,all who felt they were actually 2 people,

Look for Anthony Peake's videos on here for some good information on this subject.

Peace

[DemonslayerInNorway]

Deja vu was the first thing I noticed on my first LSD-trip. It seemed like I had been there before, it seemed like coming home in a wierd way. Like awakening from a dream and rediscovering what reality really was.

[truculentfairy]

Having TLE really sucks. I moved to Germany where I can finally get good AEs. I'm now taking Lactimil and Zonegran and don't have auras anymore. I had them all my life (50 years) It took about 3 years to get the meds right, but one morning I woke up and my brain had no more noise in it. It was the most wonderful feeling I've ever had. I've still got problems from years of siezures had deja vu and jaime vu and religious auras that would end in passing out.

[beckyuk2001]

I have Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy sadly!

[Badwsky]

If you "died" and returned a good number of a dozen times where it didn't change you, you would have to be nuts or an emotionless robot to begin with. True, one cannot remember what is happening as a dream during a seizure or normal REM for that matter but the ensuing nightmarish dreams upon recovery I would agree must be like an LSD trip. Seizure recovery is like slowly trying to emerge from the lower floors of that hospital in that movie "Jacobs Ladder". I become a Lazarus anew every time.

[DemonslayerInNorway]

Yep, it would change you. Why do you think near-death-experiences and high-dose LSD-trips have such an impact on your veiw of reality?

It all depends on what reality really is.

Once you accept that this physical world is not all there is, then the concept of death takes on a whole new meaning. The emotions that we link to the concept of dying are only negative because we fear it. If you believe that reality is an illusion produced by consiusness, then it follows that death is also an illusion.

[MatthewFordVictoria]

When I got diagnosed in 1970, the Epilepsy Society didn't exist. There was a hospital for physical ailments, but since seizures occur in the brain, I got sent to a place for people with mental problems. I got sexually fixed as a teen, and I got classed Unemployable as the safety of the public is more important than the pleasures of just one. I got put in a Care Home from age 20 (1982) until after I had Brain surgery in 2003 (age 41). Women refuse to date me. Men in their 40's should be rich.

[jCwel]

I have this kind of epilepsy, altough I don't have that many seisures. Last time, 6 months ago or something, I felt like my soul was sucked out the door of my appartment.

[bdude92]

I have epilepsy. Since my last seizure a few weeks back i havnt felt normal since. i feel dizzy and my senses are messed up.

[zhuriyuk2]

I think about things during seizure days that are quite odd, actually. I "see" things, I "remember" things, and I feel disconnected from everyone and everything. In my teens, I actually had such increased electric activity that people didn't like touching me cause I shocked everthing and everyone I touched. I could also "foresee" things a little. It was scary, and I was very cautious.

[zhuriyuk2]

Having seizures is a VERY weird feeling. I have had a few different types in my life, and each have different, but similar, feelings. The world simply looks different, the brain thinks different, and there is a very "mystical" feeling to it all.

[MySeizures]

Just like Alcoholics Anonymous, why isn't the Epilepsy Foundation available any where in USA, except designate areas? Who finances the EFA?

Besides dispensing redudant self-serving brochures, how, what, where and when did the EFA helped any victim of Epilepsy since it ever came to happen around? I wonder, if the EFA have any idea that victims of seizures are losing every thing they have ever earned for persistent seizures? WHERE'S THE HELP?

[ludwigvanaus85]

You know they have found that exposure to a certain type of fungus causes the patient to have intense religious experiances which carry on from there...it seems this stuff contaminating flour makes people become religeous.

I also find it interesting how seizures used to be the work of the devil and those having them were posessed, but now some claim its a heavenly thing...thoughts anyone?

[ludwigvanaus85]

You know they have found that exposure to a certain type of fungus causes the patient to have intense religious experiances which carry on from there...it seems this stuff contaminating flour makes people become religeous.

I also find it interesting how seizures used to be the work of the devil and those having them were posessed, but now some claim its a heavenly thing...which is it people?

[macmitchdog]

To all those people with Epilepsy; I am sorry that you have it it. Some people just do not understand. I also have cerebral palsy and Arnold Chiari Mal-formation. But what the hey! may as well enjoy life while I can. Only have one life to live.

[macmitchdog]

Graphic experiences can occur in the mind due to the seizure. Believe me I know as I have partial complex Epilepsy, which can be frightening. Its more of an 'internal' one i.e. Very little external signs that I am having a fit. My misses says that I tremble a little and want her to hold me.

[therealrealeuan]

this guy is clearly very ill so these crass comments are not helpful. ive seen this doctor on tv before and he is a genius. my own belief is that the pathology in his brain demonstrates the same symptoms as religous people. i believe that religious belief is an entirely nurological phenomonon

[hayyalife]

the mind is very powerful. we choose right from wrong. that's what religion is. spirituality lays the foundation for science which is the study of what is already there whether we can prove it or not. all scientists have faith in their beliefs. so does everybody else.

[EmeraldizingTheStars]

That man is messed up if he thinks seizures are divine. He was right at the beginning about wanting to be shot or whipped to death instead.

[luxretia]

Mohammad and Jeanne d`Arc were epileptics and who knows what the other prophets have been.

[DemonslayerInNorway]

Mystical experience is a phenomena that is integral to the functioning of the human brain and may be there so that we may comprehend God though no physical proof of his existance may be ever be found. I have experience the same conection to God through LSD and magic mushrooms, but I don't dismiss the existance of God on the grounds that these are chemically induced states.

[DemonslayerInNorway]

Even though he may experience the presence of God during an epileptic seizure, doesn't mean that the experience is a product of abnormal brain activity. After all, reality is only experienced by the brain and has no direct link to an outside reality. We only recieve electrical impulses from our senses and interpret these signals in our brains.

[navywife1977]

wow. excelent. I had an experience when I was being choked once of euphoria, and complete understanding of the entire universe.. I have also had a similar experience on LSD when I was younger. I believe that we only get to look into different parts of ourselves, when we are open to it.

[setfree2day]

You know.. after I have a siezure.. I want my husband to hold me.. I'm also very sensetive. But I do not believe God is made up because of epileptic people.

[RussLBarth]

check out "graphic Epileptic seizure"