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How exactly do aura's feel

Mon, 05/15/2006 - 11:30
How exactly do aura's feel? Can you have aura's and not have an actual seizure? I think I had some this weekend. I went off into like a "spacy" feeling. Like I was tingling and I couldn't make myself snap out of it for a few seconds. I have had a headache since I has these feelings. I have had E a long time, but I am new to all the terminology and so forth. Thanks.

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Submitted by aura_feels_good_seizure_bad on Tue, 2010-01-19 - 00:36
3RD EPISODE (THE ONE WIT AURA, THE ECSTACY):

Its Shopping time, Summer 2007, Staurday morning 11am, kuala lumpur-Malaysia. . . . . .

After a 45mins train ride, i drop off at Bank Negara station,

Half-way on an escalator, suddenly, i hv been taken over by d the best feeling ever, i know  people around me are not sharing similar feeling but one thing is clear, am having a nice nd good feeling. But then i feel like someone at a distant was smiling at me and i was smilling back. i feel as if he is d one transmitting this estatic feelin. But wen i look ahead to concentrate and see if i can capture a memory of d face; there was none but only a BIG black circle.

As soon as i step off the escalator, almst Like a time bomb, i am seized by a heavy blow that knocks me down and without contesting i fall on my right side. . . .That was my third seizure episode. I am 24 nw and bin having episodes since 2005.

if i were a marijuana smoker, mayb i'll say 'i feel high'. But the issue is knowing dat after dis celebrated feeling comes the opposite, whc we expect of course, THE TONIC-CLONIC ATTACK. It comes with severe depression and worst headaches.

Weneva i try to explain this, people think am a psycho freak. So i keep it to myself.

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Submitted by Cradle Song on Thu, 2012-09-13 - 02:07

Hello, I am new to this website. Last week I posted here a few times on a thread entitled, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. A good discussion ensued about auras and déjà vu and visions and voices. Today this heading caught my eye, “How exactly do auras feel?”

I have read this group thread from start to finish today, and there are many very interesting posts. I’ve written a book about my life-long experiences with TLE, Chopin in the Attic. It’s now out in hardcover, and your library may have it. The book’s website is:

chopinintheattic.com

Chopin’s Cradle Song plays as you open the website… a song that is symbolic of all my early TLE trauma.

I’ll be going on a book tour, and it’s likely that I’ll meet many people with TLE while touring, so as preparation I am studying all of you! I have lived with TLE for decades, yet I’ve never met another person with this malady.

Here on this thread, a post by “aura_f” -- fourth post from the top – overwhelmed me. His aura description comes so close to the one I often had. He wrote:

“Half-way on an escalator, suddenly I have been taken over by the best feeling ever, I know people around me are not sharing [a] similar feeling but one thing is clear, I am having a nice and good feeling. But then I feel like someone at a distance was smiling at me and I was smiling back. I feel as if he is done transmitting this ecstatic feeling. But when I look ahead to concentrate and see if I can capture a memory of [his] face; there was none but only a BIG black circle.”

In my book, I speak of that “someone at a distance… smiling at me” as God-consciousness, since I don’t know how else to characterize it. This is how I describe an aura I often had, so similar to that of "aura_f":

I journeyed out, farther and farther until Time was simply a lesser option, coming up to an aromatic Door, and I passed over the doorsill, finding myself in Eternity. I gazed at God-consciousness—Who had been expecting me.

"What is it?" I asked Him.

With the tenderness and mobility of a human glance, God-consciousness simply mouthed His words.

No air at all—I must have some, and I gasped.

Ever patient, God-consciousness mouthed words I must die in order to hear.

"Och!" I need air!

Who was shaking me?


I am very pleased to pen the above on a thread that is specifically about epileptic auras, since I doubt that anyone here will think I am a loon. As all of you know, words are inadequate when it comes to describing auras. One can only use language of the great Mystics and Seers in an effort to explain the feeling, in an effort to relate the essence of those few seconds. In “aura_f’s” post, his remarkable words are describing a Presence, which he calls, “someone at a distance… smiling at me and I was smiling back. I feel as if he is done transmitting this ecstatic feeling.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote of his sublime raptures when in the grip of a seizure. He also created many characters who had epilepsy. Kirilov, in The Possessed, talks about knowing "eternal harmony" while in aura and said if the ecstatic feeling were to carry on for more than five seconds, his soul could not endure it and would perish.

Thank you for listening, as I know you hear with understanding. Giving my story to the general public will not be so easy.

Cradle Song

Hello, I am new to this website. Last week I posted here a few times on a thread entitled, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. A good discussion ensued about auras and déjà vu and visions and voices. Today this heading caught my eye, “How exactly do auras feel?”

I have read this group thread from start to finish today, and there are many very interesting posts. I’ve written a book about my life-long experiences with TLE, Chopin in the Attic. It’s now out in hardcover, and your library may have it. The book’s website is:

chopinintheattic.com

Chopin’s Cradle Song plays as you open the website… a song that is symbolic of all my early TLE trauma.

I’ll be going on a book tour, and it’s likely that I’ll meet many people with TLE while touring, so as preparation I am studying all of you! I have lived with TLE for decades, yet I’ve never met another person with this malady.

Here on this thread, a post by “aura_f” -- fourth post from the top – overwhelmed me. His aura description comes so close to the one I often had. He wrote:

“Half-way on an escalator, suddenly I have been taken over by the best feeling ever, I know people around me are not sharing [a] similar feeling but one thing is clear, I am having a nice and good feeling. But then I feel like someone at a distance was smiling at me and I was smiling back. I feel as if he is done transmitting this ecstatic feeling. But when I look ahead to concentrate and see if I can capture a memory of [his] face; there was none but only a BIG black circle.”

In my book, I speak of that “someone at a distance… smiling at me” as God-consciousness, since I don’t know how else to characterize it. This is how I describe an aura I often had, so similar to that of "aura_f":

I journeyed out, farther and farther until Time was simply a lesser option, coming up to an aromatic Door, and I passed over the doorsill, finding myself in Eternity. I gazed at God-consciousness—Who had been expecting me.

"What is it?" I asked Him.

With the tenderness and mobility of a human glance, God-consciousness simply mouthed His words.

No air at all—I must have some, and I gasped.

Ever patient, God-consciousness mouthed words I must die in order to hear.

"Och!" I need air!

Who was shaking me?


I am very pleased to pen the above on a thread that is specifically about epileptic auras, since I doubt that anyone here will think I am a loon. As all of you know, words are inadequate when it comes to describing auras. One can only use language of the great Mystics and Seers in an effort to explain the feeling, in an effort to relate the essence of those few seconds. In “aura_f’s” post, his remarkable words are describing a Presence, which he calls, “someone at a distance… smiling at me and I was smiling back. I feel as if he is done transmitting this ecstatic feeling.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote of his sublime raptures when in the grip of a seizure. He also created many characters who had epilepsy. Kirilov, in The Possessed, talks about knowing "eternal harmony" while in aura and said if the ecstatic feeling were to carry on for more than five seconds, his soul could not endure it and would perish.

Thank you for listening, as I know you hear with understanding. Giving my story to the general public will not be so easy.

Cradle Song

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Submitted by sparker001 on Sun, 2012-10-07 - 12:44

We are all trying to find the words to describe these experiences that are so beyond the norm.  And even though often they are terrifying, they also are... special ... and really do demand and even inspire attempts at explanation or, at least, description.  It is amazing to read others' descriptions especially when the auras are similar.  It's like: "That's it!  That's it!" 

I look forward to checking out your website. Best of luck with your book and many Blessings to you.

We are all trying to find the words to describe these experiences that are so beyond the norm.  And even though often they are terrifying, they also are... special ... and really do demand and even inspire attempts at explanation or, at least, description.  It is amazing to read others' descriptions especially when the auras are similar.  It's like: "That's it!  That's it!" 

I look forward to checking out your website. Best of luck with your book and many Blessings to you.

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