The funniest thing you thought was a seizure but wasn't

[Endless]

What's the funniest thing you thought was a seizure, but wasn't?


I get the alice-in-wonderland thing sometimes. One form of it speed warps. Like I think I'm going really fast, but I'm really going slow.

I was driving down this big long hill near my house, at what felt like the speed limit. I looked at the odometer and it said I was going 70+ mph! Yikes! I slammed on my breaks and got it down to 30, which was the speed limit. It felt like the car was crawling at 30mph - hardly moving. I pulled over because I was totally confused, and thought I was in the middle of an epic seizure.

Well, as it turns out, I looked at the odometer again and I had accidentally hit the button that changes it from mph to kilometers per hour. Oops. When I thought I was going 70mph I was really going 35 or so. When I was going 30, I was really going 15-ish. No seizure. Ooops~!

[Cint]

I get the alice-in-wonderland thing sometimes. One form of it speed warps. Like I think I'm going really fast, but I'm really going slow.

I thought the "alice-in-wonderland" thing is more like an aura, so wouldn't that be considered a simple partial seizure?

http://www.aiws.info/symptoms

Other symptoms which have been referred to as part of AIWS include:

Distorted time perception; time moving quickly or slowly.
Distorted sound perception.

Often times, when I knew I was going into tonic clonic seizure, my auras were like the above description. Time would start going in slow motion, like in the movies, and the sound around me would get soooo loud and unbearable..... then I would pass out.......

So I never considered it funny.

Then another time, I had a complex partial, and it look as though my right arm was disconnected from my body. I remember looking at it and trying to figure out why it was flying in the air. Weird!

[Endless]

You are right, Cint. It is never funny in the moment. It feels awful in the moment. But later (sometimes much later) I can look back and laugh at it. 'Cause if I don't laugh, I'm gonna cry....

[Chel]

A couple of times I'd had my hand on the corner of the kitchen bench, and my hand was buzzing. I get simple partial seizures with both hands buzzing, or with a whole limb buzzing, so I'd wait, and no progress. Weird. After a few times, I realised it was the kettle boiling!