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What do flickering/flashing lights do to you?
Sat, 05/16/2009 - 19:24What effect do flickering or flashing lights have on you? Can you describe a bit how you feel when you encounter them and what happens to you?
Does everyone with epilepsy have a reaction to them? Is everyone photosensitive in this way or is photosensitive just one specific type, and there are others who are not bothered by what they see?
Re: What do flickering/flashing lights do to you?
Submitted by pellykate on Wed, 2010-09-22 - 07:11
If you aren't aware of the zoning out, yourself, it might be an absence. I zone out alot, but I could tell you what I was thinking about. Couldn't tell you much about what was happening around me, but any recollection means you're still conscious. Non-responsive for a few MINUTES is pretty serious.