pretty weird - ESPilepsy?

[petero]

walking home now I took the long way home because a reggae version of Supertramp told me to on the world-radio web station told me to before I was leaving work

no that's not the ESP event...
but anyway I was walking on a slightly different route home from work and a little bit after I'd turned a corner I passed a small condo-plex (and there were basically zero street lights, quite dark) and then it was like an ultraviolet beam appeared at about a 40deg angle ascending toward my right and instinctively I did the head bob and weave like I didn't see a big branch I was about to run into and within the split secon I think "uh oh" because I realized there was nothing there... but then immediately the house light to my right turned on like I had tripped the motion sensor

and within the period of about five seconds I go through the mental process of bob-weave, realize there's no branch/obstruction at all, think uh oh might be aura, see the light come on - and then ..."did I just see the infrared sensor??"

it was actually a UV type color - a straight beam, about an inch wide as I perceived it as a tree branch proximity

but it's my understanding motion sensors are infrared

I'm going to check online if there are some motion sensors that project a UV light...

but it's like the beam appeared suddenly
and the timing with the light was too coincidental it seemed

do any of you ever get the feeling that visual or audio aura might actually be a type of perception that the brain just gets befuddled trying to interpret, so that it could trigger a seizure?

I didn't have a seizure, but then maybe the bright light coming on suddenly could have altered a neural process?

I need a date.
I am lonely.
What am I doing with my life?
I'm so scared for no reason.
I don't understand.
I feel like I'm on a different planet sometimes and I'm so lost.
I work hard and have good standards for myself and I'm a moral person.
Why have I had tinnitus so bad at times?
Dilantin is supposed to be effective for >treating< tinnitus. it's not a side effect
I need to get home but I'm eating at chikfila
I need the weight off of my shoulders.
can I let the boulder just roll and climb the hill?

 

[Nakamova]

do any of you ever get the feeling that visual or audio aura might actually be a type of perception that the brain just gets befuddled trying to interpret, so that it could trigger a seizure?

I think that the seizure process happens at the unconscious level, before any conscious interpretation can occur. The befuddlement is the result of the seizure rather than the cause. A stimulus shows up (say, a flashing light) and in a healthy person, the neuron or neurons fire, and that's that. But in someone with a lowered seizure threshold, it's like OMG! -- Peer pressure kicks in, the neurons start texting each other like crazy, and before you know it a whole clique of them is chattering in sync. Your poor conscious brain is getting a message that it didn't ask for...

can I let the boulder just roll and climb the hill?

Go for it! From my distant non-medical vantage point, I think you have made a lot of progress since when you first joined CWE. You are moving in the right direction. It may feel like it's an uphill journey (and it definitely is for many of us), but it's not one you are making alone.