A strange observation of simple-partial seizures.

[N Sperlo]

Just kind of thought of this as I was singing.

Before we got the simple-partials under control, I was very tired one day and they were sparing up like crazy. I wasn't able to talk coherently, so my wife pulled some of my favorite music up and played it on the way home for me to take a nap. I could sing it word for word, but not use the proper words to express my thoughts.

Things are funny, huh?

 

[qtowngirl]

howdy
i'm guessing you mean that you could 'word for word' in your head, aka you knew exactly what song it was... but couldn't sing it properly out loud?
classic, classic simple partial. we can think away just FINE and NORMAL in our heads, know exactly what's going on, but verbalizing nay nay. good times.

mind if i ask what song?

 

[arnie]

Partial seizures are so bizarre in so many ways. The way we feel during them, the memories that pop up between them, the subtle alteration of consciousness and coordination, the strange feelings in our stomach and chest even "between" seizures (or probably those are just really really small seizures). Really weird stuff. Hard to explain. Getting less and less fun all the time. Onward!

 

[Juju26]

Muscle Twitches and Forced Thinking.

Those are my simple partials, and I can't stand them. Sometimes I go all day with small twitches in my arms, fingers, knees, things, and neck, basically almost every body part,fortunately not at the same time. Sometimes one muscle will literally vibrates for up to a minute.

I also get forced thinking, like my mind is trying to make me remember something or day dream about something, but it only last for 5 seconds and then it's gone. I have images of someone picking up something or walking, and the images feel dead on, like something I've seen or done before. It's like re-verse deja-vu, but instead of me doing something that seems familiar, I'm thinking of something that seems familiar.

 

[qtowngirl]

juju it is a deja-vu rather than 'reverse'... in the psychic category of simple partials.

Psychic seizures-
These seizures change how people think, feel, or experience things. They may have problems with memory, garbled speech, an inability to find the right word, or trouble understanding spoken or written language. They may suddenly feel emotions like fear, depression, or happiness with no outside reason. Some may feel as though they are outside their body or may have feelings of déja vu ("I've been through this before") or jamais vu ("This is new to me"— even though the setting is really familiar).

 

[Juju26]

qtowngirl

I've always thought that deja vu meant you were actually physically doing something or actually seeing something that seems familiar or that you've been through this before, because I never experience that.

My mind only tries to make me think of something completed unrelated to what I'm doing, but none the less what I was thinking feels familiar. My simple partials are always, my mind forcing me to think about something, that seems familiar, not me doing something that seems familiar.

I didn't know that was deja vu too.

Thank You.

 

[valeriedl]

howdy
i'm guessing you mean that you could 'word for word' in your head, aka you knew exactly what song it was... but couldn't sing it properly out loud?
classic, classic simple partial. we can think away just FINE and NORMAL in our heads, know exactly what's going on, but verbalizing nay nay. good times.

mind if i ask what song?

Something similar happened with me a few months ago during a seizure.

I was on the phone with my grandma. I had gone into the seizure and she was asking me questions, I didn't know that I was having the seizure though. I knew exactly what she was saying and what the questions were. I knew what the answers to the questions were but when I said the answers all that was coming out of my mouth was just gibberish.

 

[Nakamova]

Before we got the simple-partials under control, I was very tired one day and they were sparing up like crazy. I wasn't able to talk coherently, so my wife pulled some of my favorite music up and played it on the way home for me to take a nap. I could sing it word for word, but not use the proper words to express my thoughts.

I think that's because singing and recalling phrases from memory (such as song lyrics) are processes that use a different part of the brain from the area that's in charge of forming new sentences or thoughts. I've read about stroke patients who have aphasia (can't speak), but they are able to sing!

 

[MAB]

I think that's because singing and recalling phrases from memory (such as song lyrics) are processes that use a different part of the brain from the area that's in charge of forming new sentences or thoughts. I've read about stroke patients who have aphasia (can't speak), but they are able to sing!

Nakamoa, I think you are correct. Many autistic people are the same, completely non-verbal but able to sing or repeat long scripts from movies.

 

[N Sperlo]

howdy
i'm guessing you mean that you could 'word for word' in your head, aka you knew exactly what song it was... but couldn't sing it properly out loud?
classic, classic simple partial. we can think away just FINE and NORMAL in our heads, know exactly what's going on, but verbalizing nay nay. good times.

mind if i ask what song?

Actually, no. I could sing it word for word to my wife, but not put together other words or thoughts. I tried to talk, so my wife turned the radio on and sang with me.

Round Here by The Counting Crows

 

[qtowngirl]

wow i envy... i couldn't sing during an s.p. to save my soul
not that i've ever tried, but i'm too paralyzed with fear to vocalize anything but 'wait' or 'hang on' etc.

and nice pick I LOVE THAT SONG!!