Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: what does it feel like?

I have no idea how old this thread is but it's like reading my own story. Started having small episodes like this in 2014. Get this funny feeling rising in my stomach up to my chest. Then I get intense fear and feeling like im going to be sucked out of my body. Then my heart is pounding feel sick and I shake. Looks like my EEG showed spikes in my temporal lobe. Now I am waiting for 72 hour EEG.

I have not been officially diagnosed with TLE, but I know I have it. Years ago while searching sites such as this I cam across the common symptoms everyone typically feels before, during, and after a TLE experience. Not everyone has the same symptoms, all depends on what part of the brain is the focal point. Mine are pretty much like this and am uncertain of the trigger, perhaps stress, but still can't remember after an event occurs.- A few images flash before me, never animated, just kodak moments of some point in my life. Typically when I was young and almost always a happy event. Doesn't have to be a picture of me, could be a picture of an inanimate object like a toy or something along those lines. When this 'slide show' begins, as I call it, I know its coming on and can typically warn others with a finger pointing to the sky as if to tell them 'hold one'.- The next thing I deal with is a smell and taste of something burning, normally like an electrical smell, like the remnants of a house fire days after.- The images, or slide show, then gets faster, to the point it is almost like if pictures were stacked like a deck of cards and flipped/shuffled. I rarely remember any of these pictures.- The images then slow down, come to a stop, and I realize what has happened. I can sometimes remember the last image, but not all the time.- A sense of deja vu occurs.- I get a sick feeling in my stomach, butterflies, etc.- I then will feel either a sense of euphoria or, as of late, a sense of terror. Euphoria as in wide awake, extremely happy, etc. Terror in the sense that I feel as though I am being watched, even though I know I am not, and afraid of dark places.During these TLE events, I feel I still am aware of my surroundings, as I have had them while driving, jogging, etc, but I know I am not 100% focused during those times, but at the end of an event, everything seems to rush back/catch up with me all at once, which may explain the sickness feeling.

I have not been officially diagnosed with TLE, but I know I have it. Years ago while searching sites such as this I cam across the common symptoms everyone typically feels before, during, and after a TLE experience. Not everyone has the same symptoms, all depends on what part of the brain is the focal point. Mine are pretty much like this and am uncertain of the trigger, perhaps stress, but still can't remember after an event occurs.- A few images flash before me, never animated, just kodak moments of some point in my life. Typically when I was young and almost always a happy event. Doesn't have to be a picture of me, could be a picture of an inanimate object like a toy or something along those lines. When this 'slide show' begins, as I call it, I know its coming on and can typically warn others with a finger pointing to the sky as if to tell them 'hold one'.- The next thing I deal with is a smell and taste of something burning, normally like an electrical smell, like the remnants of a house fire days after.- The images, or slide show, then gets faster, to the point it is almost like if pictures were stacked like a deck of cards and flipped/shuffled. I rarely remember any of these pictures.- The images then slow down, come to a stop, and I realize what has happened. I can sometimes remember the last image, but not all the time.- A sense of deja vu occurs.- I get a sick feeling in my stomach, butterflies, etc.- I then will feel either a sense of euphoria or, as of late, a sense of terror. Euphoria as in wide awake, extremely happy, etc. Terror in the sense that I feel as though I am being watched, even though I know I am not, and afraid of dark places.During these TLE events, I feel I still am aware of my surroundings, as I have had them while driving, jogging, etc, but I know I am not 100% focused during those times, but at the end of an event, everything seems to rush back/catch up with me all at once, which may explain the sickness feeling.