Is this some kind of seizure? (smell problem included)

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I've been rummaging internet and I stumbled on articles about temporal lobe seizure, accompanying hallucination.

recently my sense of smell is super-heightened.
I don't usually smell things aren't there, but I can smell the entire sewer system in my town and every garbage or food smell around me(from far). My nose became soooo sensitive, sometimes I can smell things 'through' the walls.
Yeah I know it sounds strange, that's why I'm asking if this has anything to do with my brain.

all this has started after big stress, my sense of smell became weird or too sensitive, it's painful, I feel like living in hell full of bad smells.

I don't smell usual 'burnt smell' people here describe or flower or perfume smell, it's always foul something close to sewer or garbage.
and comes and goes without specific reason.

and I can feel electricity in my left head or around my left face,
when it happens I can feel someone invisible is staring at me behind, or standing right behind me, it's very scary... though I don't see actual ghosts, the feeling is so real like someone is breathing behind me.


Are those two things can be related temporal lobe seizure?

Thx in advance.
 
I've been rummaging internet and I stumbled on articles about temporal lobe seizure, accompanying hallucination.

recently my sense of smell is super-heightened.
I don't usually smell things aren't there, but I can smell the entire sewer system in my town and every garbage or food smell around me(from far). My nose became soooo sensitive, sometimes I can smell things 'through' the walls.
Yeah I know it sounds strange, that's why I'm asking if this has anything to do with my brain.

all this has started after big stress, my sense of smell became weird or too sensitive, it's painful, I feel like living in hell full of bad smells.

I don't smell usual 'burnt smell' people here describe or flower or perfume smell, it's always foul something close to sewer or garbage.
and comes and goes without specific reason.

and I can feel electricity in my left head or around my left face,
when it happens I can feel someone invisible is staring at me behind, or standing right behind me, it's very scary... though I don't see actual ghosts, the feeling is so real like someone is breathing behind me.


Are those two things can be related temporal lobe seizure?

Thx in advance.

Indeed this is interesting and I have similar experiences...not sure if I'm having a temporal lobe seizure though...however I do have a golf ball sized arachnoid cyst in my right temporal lobe...and I can smell things that don't seem to be there or maybe they are there and we have just been given a special gift to pick up on things others can't...hey gotta be optimistic right??? But yeah my wife knows how sensitive I am to pretty much everything...not just smell...I notice mostly with me it's SOUND...I can hear things in my mind...like whispering voices and strange echoes...but sometimes I hear the most beautiful sounds ever like music from another dimension...I myself am a musician...and these experiences inspire me to create...I find myself more attracted to specific tones...but I know I am picking up on hidden messages in the music or whatever I am experiencing...I do believe in senses beyond the 5...and I believe we have them...we need to remember this and not be confused or afraid...but to accept the reality that we are different for a reason...when I get really deep into what I'm experiencing it can be so dreamlike/nightmarish but I know it's really spiritual...because that is what I choose to believe...I am not a "religious" person but I do believe in things beyond human comprehension...the "electricity" you describe I feel it shooting through my entire body...though it usually starts in a specific area usually around the neck or head...I feel it and then suddenly feel surrounded by this beautiful energy and feel like I am omniscient but I am still grounded in the black hole of physical reality...whatever you are experiencing don't be afraid of it...don't feel confused about what is real and what isn't...because honestly reality is what you make it...you have the power hidden deep within you...learn to embrace it and use it as your weapon...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini_syndrome
 
Hey, MrE thx for your reply,

You're lucky to have so beautiful supernatural(?) experiences...

For me, mines are always evil or scary ones.

I'm also sensitive to sound, but only to the shrieking, screaming, scratching, etc,. I can't stand high-toned speech or sound.
I hear people's whispering when I'm half asleep, but it's not beautiful, it's always some evil kids or a woman giggling and shouting at me.

for the smell, As i mentioned above I only react to bad smells.

and the people I feel behind me... inside my head I can feel their face, guess it's only imagination, but, it's very real to me like I'm actually seeing them. Usually an image of a young woman who has malicious eyes and sinister smile.


I have vivid dreams every night, half of them are nightmares.

I'm kinda spiritual and sensitive person like you, I love music too though not musician myself,

I hope I can be optimistic like you, but mostly my supernatural(?) experiences are all bad ones. I want to be dull person who can't feel much even basic 5 senses.

Especially smell, it's killing me. I developed olfactory super-sense after a lot of stress and agony.

Gotta cut my story here before it becomes a novel.

Anyway, thx for sharing your experiences, hope you keep your positive energy and have amazing experiences from it.

But I want to eliminate my hypersenses. :(.......
 
Hey, MrE thx for your reply,

You're lucky to have so beautiful supernatural(?) experiences...

For me, mines are always evil or scary ones.

I'm also sensitive to sound, but only to the shrieking, screaming, scratching, etc,. I can't stand high-toned speech or sound.
I hear people's whispering when I'm half asleep, but it's not beautiful, it's always some evil kids or a woman giggling and shouting at me.

for the smell, As i mentioned above I only react to bad smells.

and the people I feel behind me... inside my head I can feel their face, guess it's only imagination, but, it's very real to me like I'm actually seeing them. Usually an image of a young woman who has malicious eyes and sinister smile.


I have vivid dreams every night, half of them are nightmares.

I'm kinda spiritual and sensitive person like you, I love music too though not musician myself,

I hope I can be optimistic like you, but mostly my supernatural(?) experiences are all bad ones. I want to be dull person who can't feel much even basic 5 senses.

Especially smell, it's killing me. I developed olfactory super-sense after a lot of stress and agony.

Gotta cut my story here before it becomes a novel.

Anyway, thx for sharing your experiences, hope you keep your positive energy and have amazing experiences from it.

But I want to eliminate my hypersenses. :(.......

No no no you completely misunderstood me...I too have terrible nightmarish experiences...they are extremely disturbing but I've learned to use them to my advantage in the form of channeled creativity!!! I've gained a better understanding of the human body, mind, and spirit...I know everyone is capable of this...some it make take more time and practice than others! but...it's not going to be the same experience...because everyone is different!...whatever it may be for you...only YOU can find it...you just have to believe in yourself!!!

Do not be afraid of or hate your abilities...like I already said...you need to learn to channel them otherwise they will continue to torment you and eventually drive you insane!!! Find something you really enjoy doing...and I'm not just talking about a hobby...I mean something that you can get really deep into...something that will allow you to free yourself from the hell you feel trapped in...something that will give you a sense of peace...this reality as we think we know it is a dark illusion...an insidious deception...but if we can learn to harness the chaos within we will have earned the optimist grin :D

There is no time to be pessimistic or skeptical...there is only "seizing the moment" that is creativelectrical...
 
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