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Repeating words/phrases of memories/dreams?

Wed, 11/16/2016 - 12:42
Hello, I haven't been diagnosed medically with anything, but for the past 2 years I've been having "episodes" which I'll give a play by play description of. An extreme sense of deja-vu is suddenly triggered, which is often accompanied with a sense of dread. I become less aware of my surroundings and my vision will tunnel and become dimmer and distorted, and I feel like I'm being pulled out of reality and into my own head. Keep in mind that this is all happening very quickly. I will remember parts of dreams (or my brain is making things up and because of the extreme deja-vu I just think I've dreamed it before, I'm not sure) and they will repeat/loop/echo. For example if I "remember" part of a dream where someone says "she is there", it will go like "she is there, there, there, there,". My dizziness, strong feeling of unwellness, and and general symptoms increase the more the repetition happens, sometimes my legs will give out. The images and things that repeat are in my head, not hallucinations that I see projected into the world around me. Sometimes several different things can repeat at once (episodes where this happens are very bad). Once things stop repeating it marks the end of the height of the episode. The first things I usually notice is that my vision will get better and that my heart is going 110 miles per hour. My nausea will start to subside, and I start to become more aware of my surroundings again, though I will feel spaced out and detached for a few hours afterwards, and it takes several hours before I feel "normal" again. I will always have a headache of varying degree afterwards, and I have experienced a few episodes where the sudden onset of deja-vu came with a very sudden intense pain, like someone had struck my head with a baseball bat. Just wondering if anyone's had any similar experiences, I do suspect that my episodes are some sort of focus/partial seizures, but the repeating is an important part of it and I haven't seen anyone else describe it before.

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