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How would you classify...

Thu, 06/01/2006 - 14:11
I need help classifying something. It is almost like deja vu, but not quite. I've been getting it in different situations all day, and it is EXTREMELY distracting. It's a sense of remembering something, but not quite remembering it. Like remembering a dream sequence that is related to what you are doing. Almost like the next step happens thusly because you had this dream and this is what you were doing and this is what happened next because it happened that way in your dream. Would you classify that as deja vu? It's an odd deja vu if it is, and like I said it is distracting. It's like I'm remembering a fragment of something or like I have a half a memory. And I was in the middle of doing what I am doing now, which is why the memory comes. But it doesn't come in full. And I pause and can't seem to get on with my work because I'm trying to do what I was doing while trying to remember. And I can't STOP trying to remember. It has passed now, but this is the third time today this has happened to me. If my ears start ringing again, I think I am going to cry.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: How would you classify...

Submitted by fzMousie on Thu, 2006-06-01 - 18:47
Thank you!! It's the sort of feeling that you think should have it's own terminology, because it's not deja vu and it's not jamais vu. But it's VERY distracting and after a while starts to make you question your sanity. It's like I can almost reach out and grab my thought or the memory that is sitting there taunting me, but I'm just a half step removed from it and so I can't. Thanks to a wonderful husband who decided I didn't need to cook dinner tonight, I'm starting to feel better. ((hugs Heidi)) Thank you for posting that. It IS reassuring to know that I'm not alone. I think the scariest thing is the inability to verbalize it and the feeling that you are the only one who feels this.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How would you classify...

Submitted by heidi on Fri, 2006-06-02 - 07:10
Hugs right back! When I read that definition, I wanted to get up and do a little dance I was so happy, and relieved. I kept trying to tell my neurologist that there was a memory "on the tip of my tongue," and he just looked thoroughly confused. I'm glad you're starting to feel better.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How would you classify...

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2006-06-02 - 10:39
The best way of explaining the sxs is just what everyone did-- say it like it feels! These are called psychic or experiential phenomena of partial seizures that can be experienced or felt in different ways, by different people. Sometimes they fit neatly into a term, sometimes they don't, but not to worry... They are generally sxs of disturbance in the limbic area of the brain, of which the temporal lobe is a major part. Take a look at the following links -

www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_simplepartial.html

www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy_temporallobe.html

Hope this helps!

www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_simplepartial.html

www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy_temporallobe.html

Hope this helps!

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