Posted by Mitch on July 3, 2001, at 23:20:15
In reply to back to me (he he), posted by geekUK on July 3, 2001, at 14:27:08
GUK, also Elizabeth and Zo,
Besides the "dreamy" derealisation or "movie-like" episodes (longer lasting) I have had *sudden* illusions on Prozac (I have already described elsewhere)where I *suddenly* felt like the vehicle I was driving in was enormous and I was about 20 foot off the pavement(like a flying tank!) and simultaneously feeling very panicky (happened only at nite-I know that Prozac can cause nightime "subhallucinations"). Then it abated in just a few moments.
In the past I have had some deja-vu experiences (not lately-maybe because I am on anti-convulsant mood stabilizers?), but they weren't deja-vu experiences like people normally describe them or how we popularly imagine them I guess. It wasn't like you walked into a strange place and it felt like you had been there before (in a simple way), it was more like interacting (talking-communicating) with another person (processing information) and I *suddenly* just felt for certain that I had said precisely the same words to this strange person that I had to another familiar person (in the past-in my memory) and was hearing the same responses as well and this was accompanied with the sensation of not being in my body-like I was outside looking at our conversation (not really there taking part-just observing myself going through the motions). This was not during any prominent depressive episode-I know that you can get very depressed and feel outside of your body. Sorry, but a lot of this "phenomena" is kind of tough to describe-I feel like "I have got it", but then it eludes my ability to describe it.
Another way perhaps of looking at it maybe...is that similar information-processing situations creates a lot of "hits" memory-wise very quickly and my mind creates a very fast quick *analog* or *model* of the event and I end up getting distracted by the sense-memories of previous "models" and that sets up the derealization and feeling "outside looking in" and the deja-vu. Just theorizing,
Does this create any "hits" with any TLE experiences, anybody?
Mitch
Mitch
> I kinda lost the thread earlyer don t know who was talking 2 who.
> yeah i was on about getting brief, 2-3min max periods of derealisation when things feel like I am sunk back 100 miles into my skull and everything is distant (no visual sympt.)
> and
> As A kid mainly I got strong attacks of tactile halucinations of a contradictory nature, the feeling that something was big and little and thin and fat, coupled with tingleing in arm and legs and tongue, occasional auditory halluc. as if speech was being played back really fast without be comprehendable.
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> consiousness is never lost.
> any ideas guys and gals
> MC
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