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staring off into space
Sat, 02/03/2007 - 15:36anyone ever get the experience where you just start staring off into space, and then someone notices and asks you what you are looking at, and you hear them asking... and it is hard to stop staring but you probably could stop it if you really had to? and then afterwards after your done staring, you dont remember ALL of the details of what they were saying. you can remember the subject matter but the details get lost. staring off into space happens to everyday people who are just "resting their eyes" as my mother used to say.
1. how do you know if it's just resting your eyes or some kind of small seizure?
2. i thought that seizures where you stare, are only seizures if you have no recall or aren't even aware you "left" for a minute? can you have a staring spell where consciousness is just altered but not completely lost?
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Re: staring off into space
Submitted by pgd on Thu, 2011-06-16 - 20:23
Words: Absence, petit mal; involuntary nystagmus (where eyes go in a certain direction involuntarily but consciousness is maintained); ADHD Inattentive - Can involve involuntary eye darting in some persons which the right stimulant/alerting agent medicine can, for some, temporarily relieve (not a cure); other. Other words: 12 pairs cranial nerves, medulla, pons, reticular formation of the brainstem, midbrain, and so on; full consciousness, degrees of consciousness; alertness, levels of alertness; brain waves, etc.
I too was in a bad mva coma
Submitted by Zurue1994@gmail.com on Mon, 2018-09-03 - 17:57
I too was in a bad mva coma and everything and do this quite often tho I'm afflicted with anxiety and ptsd from said incident.
Re: staring off into space
Submitted by wanda880 on Thu, 2011-06-16 - 17:03
I do it too ): it started off when i was 4 maybe. Sometimes, when no one really is talking to me, and i get lost in thoughts for a second, i realize that i am just staring at nothing. a wall, past a person, my eyes wouldn't move. It felt good. I could still feel I could stop it if i wanted to, but i never did. I would just stare questioning myself why. jaw opened, unblinking eyes, and then i snap out of it.