One seizure.

Beethoven- Moonlight Sonata plays through the speakers. Everything feels connected. Don’t lose focus ..
blue ball of light - people, burning, screaming, melting....

As she lay there convulsing, naked, in the shower; she felt and heard everything around her. The warm water rolled along her skin. She didn’t have control of her own body. Her eyes were firmly shut. She then hears “open your eyes.” They open at that command. “Can you hear me?”

Still convulsing she started saying call 911 call 911 call 911 call 911; in the most robotic tone she’s heard a human speak. She sees him leave the wash room. She hears her son sobbing. He returned quickly, phone in hand, explaining, “my wife is having a seizure, no, she’s never had one before. Yes, she’s sitting up repeating the same words.”

He walks out. Her crying son comes into view. She stops saying call 911 and begins shouting “This is really happening, I’ve been trying to tell you the truth but you haven’t been listening.” She then proceeds to scream “this is really happening, I’ve been trying to tell you the truth, but you haven’t been listening!”

Her hands start moving to hit her self, shouting “they are going to call me crazy, they are going to lock me up.”

At that moment her son starts loudly saying through tears “as I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil.”

It snaps her out, she looks down and has some control back. Get dressed. Starts repeating “don’t call 911, don’t call 911, they are going to lock me up.” As she’s saying this she’s moving with speed to her dresser drawers. Underwear, socks, pants, shirt. Fully awake now she has an unsettling fear.

Emt’s arrive and check her out. She tells them of the vision she had and asks them “are you with the white hats or black hats?”

That’s the last time she saw her family. She couldn’t move again. The case now was a straight jacket.

Fin

a reply to: CrazyBlueCat

That's what you get if you don't wear your tinfoil hat at all times

Nice story...

a reply to: CrazyBlueCat

Deadly story.
I gave you your 111 flag..

Love a bit of Beethoven in the morning. Well, i do now.

Straight jacket and into the rubber room with ya.
Nice ending well written

a reply to: Terpene

Thanks for reading

Now let me go find my tinfoil hat!

a reply to: SecretKnowledge

Thanks for reading

111 huh, neat.

The padded room is so comfy tho

a reply to: CrazyBlueCat

rather unsettling

The Mozart effect, which the authors described as “the enhancement of cognitive performance in spatial tasks while listening to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major K 448 (K448),” has been reported multiple times. There also exists what the team suggests is a “complex” relationship between music and epilepsy. In rare, but well-described cases of musicogenic epilepsy, music may actually trigger a seizure. In contrast, it has been reported by multiple research teams that listening to Mozart’s K448 can reduce epileptiform discharges, measured by electrodes placed on the scalp, or scalp electroencephalography (EEG). One meta-analysis of 12 studies reported that 84% of patients demonstrated an overall reduction in the number of interictal EDs while listening to Mozart’s music. However, another review of literature concluded that the evidence for an anti-epileptic effect of music is only weak.

bolding mine

a reply to: Terpene

Hmmm.. that’s actually very interesting.

Thanks for sharing that info. I’m gonna look more into that.

I noticed last night I was listening to some beats, and my limbs went numb. And it was weird and so I turned off that beat and my limbs were back not numb.

a reply to: CrazyBlueCat

Just avoid YouTube, for listening to music. These issues will not be present on CD or old recordings.
But YouTube... well without going into much detail, I don't trust them.

Great writing style and interesting story but for reference seizures don't quite happen like that, though most of the description of one is perfect.

When I had them I've been able to say/shout what's happening in the first couple of seconds but after that you're out, other than that it's pretty much a faultess description.

You're 100% on the mark with the hearing voices telling you to open eyes/wake up when regaining conciousness.

When someone wakes up the behaviour you describe with 'don't call them, they'll lock me up' is perfectly on the mark to and an excellent description of the 'post-ictal state' or potentially 'post-ictal psychosis' that occurs in the period where someone is concious but hasn't regained enough coinciousness to be themselves.

Post-ictal psychosis is pretty common and is where someone is in a psychotic state for up to six months due to the trauma a seizure causes to the brain .

EDIT: Not meant to be criticism, just you have a very engaging writing style and such an accurate descriptiont that you've obviously put a lot of effort and research into your piece and may apreciate the additional info.

There is also meant to be a musical frequency that causes heart attacks (was taught to avoid it by proffesors/audio engineers), I think it was around 425Hz but I'm rusty on the figure.

a reply to: bastion

Interesting stuff. I’ve never suffered from seizures ever before. I had a traumatic brain injury back in 2008 that has had lasting effects on me.

At the time of this seizure I was on anti-seizure meds because I was having bad migraines and my neurologist thought it best.

After that incidence my doctor could not find out why I had it. He did so many brain tests that I got sick of it and quit going. I also stopped taking that medicine and all pharma meds.

I boiled it down to, something took control of me for a moment and I remember every moment and it was terrifying. I’m still trying to come to grips about it. It happened right before a blood moon in Jan of 2018.

It felt like a glitch of some sort. I know there’s logical explanations for these situations but I like to look outside of logic


I do appreciate your comment. Do you still have seizures?

a reply to: CrazyBlueCat

That does sound very similar to a seizure. Are the Drs aware of the TBI as they can trigger seizures (had my witnessed one a couple of weeks after TBI).

I'm on a new medication that has stopped them and seizure free for nearly two years, prior to that I had drug-resistant uncontroiled epilepsy and would have clusters of grand mals every two weeks. I'm also prescribed cannabis due to having bad reactions to various anti-seizure meds.

Having a seizure after TBI is pretty common - it doesn't mean you have epillepsy as that requires a seperate sezuire within (possibly after) 6 months.

It could potentially have been a Non-Epilleptic Attack Disorder Seizure (NEADS) - Clues can be if you didn't bite your tongue or soil yourself (depends on when you last used the toiler). They're genuine seizures (just not epilleptic) caused by the brain trying to protect itself from a traumatic memory (i.e - getting the TBI), the person isn't pretending or putting it on, their brain just shuts down for a bit to protect and reset itself - it's a relatively new but incredibly fascinationg and terrifying area of the brain.

The meds aren't for everyone and you don't seem to need them in your case - they all work by slowing the brain down and have a secondary use as mood stabalisers for people with Bi-Polar disorder so kind of make you feel groggy all the time and pretty emotionally numb.

Fully understand the glitch thing, it's really hard to describe but I get a strange static feeling and pulsating/distorted soundwaves going through my head - whatever events happened just prior to seizure 'echo' and repeat a few dozen times when I'm in the unconcious seizure phase, then there's silence, blankness, and a voice/my voice saying 'wake up, open your eyes' several times as I start to regain conciousness.

They are terrifying if you remember them, if you're unlucky enough to have one again there are certain drugs prescribed that stop you forming new memories for a couple of days and prevent the 'shell shock' feeling after one.

a reply to: bastion

That’s prob exactly what I had- NEADS- I wonder why my neuro never thought of that. I didn’t bite my tongue or soil myself. Yes, all my docs know of my tbi. It’s prob the first thing I tell them so they know.

I was started on anti-depressants at 16. I truly think they messed up my growing brain. I am bi-polar but can’t take meds for it cause it causes really dark thoughts. I’ve tried so many and I was sick of it. Now I just do natural things to help. Exercise really helps me too.

That’s great you are on a medicine that has stopped them. I don’t like hearing about all the bad reactions but I know meds can help many. That’s great you have cannabis, it can help with so much.

Thanks again for reading and bringing your knowledge to this thread. I really appreciate it

a reply to: bastion

get a strange static feeling and pulsating/distorted soundwaves going through my head

That reminds me a lot of the description given in the book the god molecule by rick strassman. Apparently a very common occurrence when the molecule reaches the brain. The people describe it as a very deep but intense hum, that seems to resonate with everything from the throat upwards, getting stronger to the point of discomfort, just before crossing over into the realm of the "mechanic elves".

a reply to: CrazyBlueCat

Good read; I want to go find her and break her out of her straight jacket and the place she is in.

a reply to: Onlyyouknow

Thanks for reading

a flower for you ..

damn fine imagery!

I can see that as the beginning of a very interesting TV series. This is what we use.



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a reply to: olaru12

Thanks for reading

Ooh yea, that could be interesting, maybe….
You’d probably have to really capture the audience with that first scene

a reply to: CrazyBlueCat
That is so kind and my favorite color as well.