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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: Hello ee

Submitted by Cradle Song on Thu, 2012-06-28 - 14:34

Hi again ee--

I have just re-read the post I wrote to you yesterday.  I see that the upper-case "g" was used.  I'm confused by that since I meant to use a lower-case "g", as in "god".  That's an important distinction to me because I'm not really religious in the usual sense.

I just wanted to clarify that since I don't want to add to your current worries. It's a heartbreak to hear that you are so sad that you're crying a lot.

Best,

Cradle Song

 

Hi again ee--

I have just re-read the post I wrote to you yesterday.  I see that the upper-case "g" was used.  I'm confused by that since I meant to use a lower-case "g", as in "god".  That's an important distinction to me because I'm not really religious in the usual sense.

I just wanted to clarify that since I don't want to add to your current worries. It's a heartbreak to hear that you are so sad that you're crying a lot.

Best,

Cradle Song

 

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Submitted by eXeAdam on Mon, 2012-09-10 - 11:08
I get the same symptoms i get: an aura with a sense of already being there in that moment of time..which can sometimes lead to seeing something before it happens, or finishing a persons sentence. luckily Keppra,or its cheaper knockoffs, medication has put a stop to them as long I don't miss a dose. For the most part i hate seizures..however 2x that i know of it seemed to alert me to a warning or a danger..once i almost walked into a shooting at a gas station, that i always went to buy a drink after school..however i had an aura that something bad was happening.. another time..i almost got ran over crossing a crosswalk not by 1 driver but 2 in a row....luckily i took a step back.... so not sure whether they are a Godsend or not. i have noticed if i think about a seizure or try to study it too much..a partial seizure can occur. Also for me it seems like temperature plays a big part or use to when i was younger..whether it was really hot, or really cold.. i'd be sweating even if it was cold, or would be freezing even if it was hot.

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Submitted by sparker001 on Sun, 2012-10-07 - 12:40

That is the grand irony of these types of auras, isn't it?  I always refer to them as the 'agony and the ecstasy'.  There are aspects to them that are favorable and even have a sense of something special and beyond this world.  And there is the other dreaded side.  Yours actually are a form of extrasensory perception.  Mine also put me at a level of sensitivity that is to beyond the norm, and my slate of memories is just wide open from seemingly time immemorial.  It's overwhelming.  It's like something that you ask for, and you get it in spades - like "help me to see everything more clearly", "help me connect more intensively with the Universe" - and then an aura hits and you feel so miniscule and helpless before it all. 

You and ee both have incredible descriptions of your auras.  You marvel that nobody else is aware of what you are going through, floating through, spinning through.  I agree on the temp thing as well.  It was very warm the other day in my home, but I was absolutely freezing.

Trying to study the phenomenon can indeed suck you into the seizure vortex!  The more I try to pay attention to them when the big ones start, the bigger risk I'm taking.  I have to pull back before the precipice.  So frustrating!

Hang in there, and thanks for your input.  Blessings to you!

That is the grand irony of these types of auras, isn't it?  I always refer to them as the 'agony and the ecstasy'.  There are aspects to them that are favorable and even have a sense of something special and beyond this world.  And there is the other dreaded side.  Yours actually are a form of extrasensory perception.  Mine also put me at a level of sensitivity that is to beyond the norm, and my slate of memories is just wide open from seemingly time immemorial.  It's overwhelming.  It's like something that you ask for, and you get it in spades - like "help me to see everything more clearly", "help me connect more intensively with the Universe" - and then an aura hits and you feel so miniscule and helpless before it all. 

You and ee both have incredible descriptions of your auras.  You marvel that nobody else is aware of what you are going through, floating through, spinning through.  I agree on the temp thing as well.  It was very warm the other day in my home, but I was absolutely freezing.

Trying to study the phenomenon can indeed suck you into the seizure vortex!  The more I try to pay attention to them when the big ones start, the bigger risk I'm taking.  I have to pull back before the precipice.  So frustrating!

Hang in there, and thanks for your input.  Blessings to you!

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