seizires

I've been looking this up and just cannot find an answer to my question. So when I was younger, I had a seizure where I was awake and aware, but everything sounded distant and kind of...muffled? I remember my sister and baby brother were playing together behind me on the play mat, and the sound...

My mother n law:( told me that the seizures tht happen on the surface of the brain cause brain damage but the ones that are deeper don't. Is this true and what's the Diffrence between the too?