Question- Do you know what's going on during your seizures?

I have GM in my sleep, too. The tightening of my vocal cords wakes me up, and I have consciousness just long enough to recognize where I am, understand what's happening to me, and have a split second to try to control my muscles. It hasn't worked, so far. I lose consciousness, finish the seizure, and wake up hours later, sometimes not even knowing it happened, until I remember the vocal cord tightening, and ask my hubby "did I have a seizure?". He's so cool by giving me time to remember it myself. It helps me feel better about my ability to remember. Other times, when the seizure is harsh, I don't have to remember, my body tells me. Sometimes I wake up and it's hard to remember anything. UGH! Luckily, it's rare that I have a bad one anymore.

Hello Sandy, How are you? I have 4 kinds that I know of, and each seems to have a different level of awareness. I have simple partials that progress into complex partials, and absence sz's (used to be petit mal) that progress into Tonic/Clonic (Gran Mal). The partials are Temporal Lobe Sz's, and the doctor has yet to locate the origin of the T/C's. I do also get simple and absence sz's that do not progress into the other. The Simples, which are also auras, I am very very aware of having, from the very first sign of the onset of one. It's hard to describe, but I get almost a cramp in the bottom of my stomach (kind of similar to sheer panic) and that's usually my first clue one is coming. Now, once I make it to the complex partial, I have an odor I smell. and I get some extremely strange visuals, also. I am one of those ppl that either has a phrase repeating in my head, or just a race of weird thoughts during one. After the sz is over I will be able to remember none of these things, but I am aware that I had a sz, and if I was talking to someone, or in the middle of doing something I pick right back up where I left off as if nothing had happened. I can function during the simples, but it's almost like I go somewhere for a second or two during complex partials. The T/C's on the other hand, is an entirely different story. First, I am not aware of the absence auras at all. From what I'm told I stop whatever I'm doing, kind of look around blankly, and once I'm good and pale and the sweating starts, I hit the floor and the T/C begins. Second, every time I have one, I have some kind of "out of body experience" and it feels like I go somewhere (I have never told that to ANYONE before, and I just posted it in a public forum...plese don't think I'm TOO WEIRD). Those usually leave me unable to function for hours, and I could sleep after one for a week. There was a time after a T/C I'd come-to on the floor, picked my head up, looked around, put it back down on my arm, and went back to sleep. The fire department is there, and I just thought I was napping (on the FLOOR, with a knot on my head the size of a tennis ball, no less) but I had no clue I had one until the firemen started asking me if I knew what city I was in. I had also found out that day my dog had saved my life alerting my room mates about a phone chord around my neck, and I had her trained. Hope you're enjoying your weekend, Susan