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How exactly do aura's feel

Mon, 05/15/2006 - 11:30
How exactly do aura's feel? Can you have aura's and not have an actual seizure? I think I had some this weekend. I went off into like a "spacy" feeling. Like I was tingling and I couldn't make myself snap out of it for a few seconds. I have had a headache since I has these feelings. I have had E a long time, but I am new to all the terminology and so forth. Thanks.

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Re: Re: Re: How exactly do aura's feel

Submitted by brucehopson2000 on Thu, 2007-07-05 - 02:19
Waking up. I can totally agree. The room would begin spinning. I would close my eyes and say please go away please go away. SO that's what that was-an aura. I'd feel like I was floating. No pain. Just weightless, floating, dizziness. "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."-William Shakespeare

Re: How exactly do aura's feel

Submitted by wichitarick1 on Sun, 2009-07-12 - 17:04

peace R.C.

  Hi.

  I thought (oops)  I had responded to this before?  There must be 2 or more threads like this .

   I,m 45 and have had 1,ooo,s of szs over the last 15 yrs.

   BUT it has taken me until yrs. to understand that I have probably had "auras" all my life. 

    My mom (r.i.p.) and I spent some time talking about this and it may have started after a accident I had at age 6

    but we did not know about "auras" when we were discussing this .

    I have 14 yrs sober, BUT I have stated before that I am very thankful that I have done hallucinogenic drugs 

    because a lot of the feelings described here  are exactly like the effects of these drugs.

    I actually thought or at least passed off these feelings as "flashbacks" for many yrs  or diet,hangover,something ? lol.

   In fact even though I have been diagnosed as epileptic I have never discussed the aura feeling with a doctor lol. 

   I am in a drug study now. It says on my sz. chart that an "aura is cold,sweats,foggy thinking, 

    Almost anything brings this on now.  I have had serious side effects to a lot of drugs and I feel now that some of these szs.(auras) are a side effect of the drugs.

   Also my triggers have totally changed over the past few yrs. and I have so many that it is almost unknown to me what they may be.

  The heat is one I,m aware of  it belongs in another thread for triggers.

  I see where so many people describe their aura  and me and my neuro. chart see them as a complex partial sz. ? ?

  For the most part my "auras" have felt like everything here. 

  cold,sweaty,mind racing,(normal lol) left eye twitching, soft warm fuzzy feeling, panic,paranoid,vertigo,a problem swallowing, just a whole host of minor feelings. 

  It is seeing where these minor szs cross over is the problem for me,and knowing these "feelings" now may lead to a gmal is  enough to cause a panic feeling that brings on a sz. just like a big cycle a revolving door 

   I hope someone understands my rambling a little , Rick

peace R.C.

  Hi.

  I thought (oops)  I had responded to this before?  There must be 2 or more threads like this .

   I,m 45 and have had 1,ooo,s of szs over the last 15 yrs.

   BUT it has taken me until yrs. to understand that I have probably had "auras" all my life. 

    My mom (r.i.p.) and I spent some time talking about this and it may have started after a accident I had at age 6

    but we did not know about "auras" when we were discussing this .

    I have 14 yrs sober, BUT I have stated before that I am very thankful that I have done hallucinogenic drugs 

    because a lot of the feelings described here  are exactly like the effects of these drugs.

    I actually thought or at least passed off these feelings as "flashbacks" for many yrs  or diet,hangover,something ? lol.

   In fact even though I have been diagnosed as epileptic I have never discussed the aura feeling with a doctor lol. 

   I am in a drug study now. It says on my sz. chart that an "aura is cold,sweats,foggy thinking, 

    Almost anything brings this on now.  I have had serious side effects to a lot of drugs and I feel now that some of these szs.(auras) are a side effect of the drugs.

   Also my triggers have totally changed over the past few yrs. and I have so many that it is almost unknown to me what they may be.

  The heat is one I,m aware of  it belongs in another thread for triggers.

  I see where so many people describe their aura  and me and my neuro. chart see them as a complex partial sz. ? ?

  For the most part my "auras" have felt like everything here. 

  cold,sweaty,mind racing,(normal lol) left eye twitching, soft warm fuzzy feeling, panic,paranoid,vertigo,a problem swallowing, just a whole host of minor feelings. 

  It is seeing where these minor szs cross over is the problem for me,and knowing these "feelings" now may lead to a gmal is  enough to cause a panic feeling that brings on a sz. just like a big cycle a revolving door 

   I hope someone understands my rambling a little , Rick

Re: How exactly do aura's feel

Submitted by crashbang on Fri, 2009-08-07 - 18:22

here's my descripton to add to the lot.

 

episode type 1:

Going to bed at night, randomly would jump in bed and start playing back my day in my head  like most people do. The difference is my inner monologue would scream my thoughts back to me. I could not make this stop. Everything I thought was amplified. Let me make it clear, I would not "hear voices", but only my own thoughts being yelled back at me to the point of being painful. Along with this time seemed to slow down, I would go into a trance like state. I felt like I was shrinking into my bed, and the walls of my room felt like they were coming in on me and then going out. this would last sometimes until I fell asleep.


Episode type 2:

The other variance is during the day sometimes I feel this space out feeling. It feels different from regular spacing out because I would go into this trance state again. No yelling inner monologue, just the space out feeling, tunnel vision, voices sound slow when people talk to me, it's as if I am hearing a conversation from far away and can't quite make out what people are saying but only see their mouths move. I cannot respond to them. I feel like I have lost the ability to function, like I have become a statue. These episodes last anywhere from 10-20 seconds then suddenly stop! And zooooom I am back to normal. I sometimes am confused for a meer second then realized what just happened.

here's my descripton to add to the lot.

 

episode type 1:

Going to bed at night, randomly would jump in bed and start playing back my day in my head  like most people do. The difference is my inner monologue would scream my thoughts back to me. I could not make this stop. Everything I thought was amplified. Let me make it clear, I would not "hear voices", but only my own thoughts being yelled back at me to the point of being painful. Along with this time seemed to slow down, I would go into a trance like state. I felt like I was shrinking into my bed, and the walls of my room felt like they were coming in on me and then going out. this would last sometimes until I fell asleep.


Episode type 2:

The other variance is during the day sometimes I feel this space out feeling. It feels different from regular spacing out because I would go into this trance state again. No yelling inner monologue, just the space out feeling, tunnel vision, voices sound slow when people talk to me, it's as if I am hearing a conversation from far away and can't quite make out what people are saying but only see their mouths move. I cannot respond to them. I feel like I have lost the ability to function, like I have become a statue. These episodes last anywhere from 10-20 seconds then suddenly stop! And zooooom I am back to normal. I sometimes am confused for a meer second then realized what just happened.

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