Thanks for breaking this all down, gtowngirl
I would say that I definetly have experienced
Motor seizures. It spreads throughout my enitre body. When getting them I'd have my ex place his hands on my shoulders. I just felt so ungrounded, as if I were about to fly around the room. It will always start with the buckling of my knees.
And then the
Sensory seizures. A voice or ringing sounds. Lately, the sound of just one telephone ring rather than the ringing in ones ear. Sounded so real, I thought I was getting a prank call during all hours of the evening. Night after night. I actually had my telephone number changed three times. The last one with a block. Still the ring again. This was the begining of a full blown TLE paranoid psychosis (or maybe best put
Psychic seizure) where I wound up in the hospital. There, I came to realize that I was having an auditory hallucination. There, single phone ring. There was no phone in my room.
And, yes, many OBEs throughout my life. In the 80's if you had an OBE, you were considered to be spritually evolved. eg Shirley McClaine's Book "Out on a Limb" where she describes OBE when in a spring in Tibet or some exotic place.
Only twice have I experienced garbled speech. Unfortunately, once when I was riding the elevator with the VP of my company. Just us two. I made absolutely no sense whatsoever and the horror of not being able to stop! He was so nervous all he could do was spurt out a laugh.
I do know that various forms of dissociation are interconnected with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Derealization, Depersonanilization, Dissociative Identity Disorder. The latter I had been diagnosed with years before my first Tonic-Clonic seizure.
I don't know. Maybe DID can fall in the category of
Psychic Seizure.
Gleened from one of many articles I've read:
The involvement of the temporal lobes in DID is not surprising, in light of connections between the temporal lobe and the limbic system. The latter includes the amygdale, which is involved in the processing of emotional responses and in particular fear, and the hippocampus, which is vital to memory storage. In theory, the patient was able to induce dissociative states seemingly at will, presumably by increased volitional inputs involving neurons in other cortical areas-the temporal lobe has heightened sensitivity to electrical stimulation from other neurons—and when emerging from a dissociative state did appear confused and disoriented.
What does disturb me concerning this patient study is the following sole statement:
she was able to induce dissociative states at will. No mention that the patient is most always "unaware" of being in an altered state. Only twice in my life have I "induced" a dissociative state. Both times to perform a high task which the very aware "I" could not.
The link I provided below might be of interest.
http://www.priory.com/psych/did.htm
