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Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and premonitions

Sun, 03/04/2012 - 17:35

I posted this six years ago and thought I would post it again. Does anyone have TLE and experience premontions or other paranormal experiences that don't seem to be related to the TLE?

I have been diagnosed with TLE but can not take medication. Still not sure after all these years what type of seizures I am having. I have had a few two or three second dizzy spells that I am able to talk and function right through. They are calling those the seizures. I also have had many premonitions and some other bizarre visions. These are not the kind that are typical with seizures. These are partial visions that eventually come true. And they are not coincidences. I had a vision of 911 and many other occurances. I have had these all my life---long before the TLE diagnosis. Furthermore, I am not crazy. I'm a professional who seldom admits to these premonitions because I am afraid people will think I'm crazy.

I thought I read a similar post here but now I can't locate.

I would be interested in finding out if anyone else with TLE has these experiences. In particular, any TLE patients that are not on medication.

Comments

Re: Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and premonitions

Submitted by sparker001 on Wed, 2012-04-18 - 16:15

I am surprised nobody responded to this - if you look at the 'Ecstatic Seizures' thread, you'll see a lot of information there from people with TLE who have had paranormal experiences all of their lives.  I find it fascinating how many people who suffer from TLE also had psychic experiences from their earliest days.  Hopefully one day the worlds of the paranormal and science will converge and we'll be able to understand the 'why' behind such interesting phenomenon as premonitions coming true, out of body experiences, etc.  I have Left TLE and am on very minimal medication (by choice, the docs would love for me take at least 4x more than what I'm taking) and have had extranormal / paranormal experiences during my entire life, while the TLE symptoms didn't start until I was close to 40 and I didn't start on any medication until I was about 42.  So - go figure!  :)

I saw a fascinating video on YouTube of a neurologist who had a stroke that occurred in the left temporal lobe of her brain.  Her name is Dr. Jill Taylor. Imagine studying the brain for decades, and then you experience the very thing you've studied from the inside out, a front row seat so to speak.  If you search her name and the word 'stroke' on YouTube you can see the video.  She had an absolutely amazing experience where she went from her usual scientific/factual view of the world to feeling part of the universe and experiencing herself as an 'energy being' (as she put it). Although it was a stroke and not a seizure, there are some similarities in terms of the ecstatic nature of her stroke experience that some TLE patients experience with their seizures.   It's really quite lovely to watch.

Hopefully others will respond to this thread and put in their two cents :)

Blessings to you.

I am surprised nobody responded to this - if you look at the 'Ecstatic Seizures' thread, you'll see a lot of information there from people with TLE who have had paranormal experiences all of their lives.  I find it fascinating how many people who suffer from TLE also had psychic experiences from their earliest days.  Hopefully one day the worlds of the paranormal and science will converge and we'll be able to understand the 'why' behind such interesting phenomenon as premonitions coming true, out of body experiences, etc.  I have Left TLE and am on very minimal medication (by choice, the docs would love for me take at least 4x more than what I'm taking) and have had extranormal / paranormal experiences during my entire life, while the TLE symptoms didn't start until I was close to 40 and I didn't start on any medication until I was about 42.  So - go figure!  :)

I saw a fascinating video on YouTube of a neurologist who had a stroke that occurred in the left temporal lobe of her brain.  Her name is Dr. Jill Taylor. Imagine studying the brain for decades, and then you experience the very thing you've studied from the inside out, a front row seat so to speak.  If you search her name and the word 'stroke' on YouTube you can see the video.  She had an absolutely amazing experience where she went from her usual scientific/factual view of the world to feeling part of the universe and experiencing herself as an 'energy being' (as she put it). Although it was a stroke and not a seizure, there are some similarities in terms of the ecstatic nature of her stroke experience that some TLE patients experience with their seizures.   It's really quite lovely to watch.

Hopefully others will respond to this thread and put in their two cents :)

Blessings to you.

Re: Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and premonitions

Submitted by SoCalLady on Mon, 2012-10-15 - 00:58
yes, I had that too. It's a seizure. I started get a huge number of these events, accompanied by panic attacks and after several years of this finally got diagnosed. Looking back, I have had a number of "odd" experiences since childhood (now in my 50's) but I'm pretty sure it was the same problem, only at a milder state. My seizures are caused by a type of brain tumor that is dynamic (but benign.) Seizures stopped when I finally got treatment. This is pretty typical in TLE. The symptoms can be these sorts of experiences - - they don't seem like seizures so even if you tell a doc about them, they won't likely put the picture together. You may well have been having seizures longer than you think. Seizures tend to get worse over time if not treated. You say you only had TLE symptoms recently? What were those symptoms which finally lead to the diagnosis? BTW, I'm an MD. Just because something seems paranormal, doesn't mean it's not due to a brain problem. After all, even if you did have a "real" paranormal experience (this seems like a contradiction in terms) it would be your brain that would register the experience. So, personally, I don't see how anyone can tell by themselves what is a "real" experience and what is a brain experience that's trigger by a disease process. Schizophrenics hear voices. That doesn't mean they are real, even though they are very real to the patient. The only way we know these are symptoms and not "real" is that no one else can hear the voices and what the voices say doesn't make any real sense (the patients think they do make sense, but they don't). So logic tells me that if a patient with TLE has a paranormal experience, it's a seizure. I didn't see the YouTube video sparke mentioned, but there is no way a stroke can be seen a positive thing. Part of your brain is dead for heaven's sake! (no pun intended). Often people with brain damage have emotions which don't coincide with reality. For example some MS patients laugh when they are talking about sad things. It's brain damage, plain and simple.

Re: Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and premonitions

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Mon, 2012-10-15 - 19:31
Hi SoCalLady, My TLE premonitions also helped me greatly with university examinations. Unfortunately, the prejudices to epilepsy result in, in the Civilization of today, my very high scores on IQ tests being regarded as evidence of severe brain damage. For sure, with my "brain problem", I am too stupid to successfully fake stupid so as to meet the expectations complacent to Civilization's prejudices regarding epilepsy. Tadzio P.S.: http://www.ted.com/speakers/jill_bolte_taylor.html (I have to download it, as the commercials in direct streaming are now jamming completion of the video on my Chrome web browser).

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