Hello I am not epileptic that I know of. I have an aunt on my mothers side and a cousin on my fathers side with epilepsy though. Recently I have gotten into meditation/trance strictly as a mind altering relaxation device. I have always been able to zone out pretty easily. I would not call them absences. I am just able to slip into total focus on on something until everything else is pretty much blocked out.
So when I started to try meditation I would get many of the classic symptoms of going into a trance. Waves of tingling sensations flowing from head to toe, body heaviness, slight euphoria, etc.. Then one day I had a weird feeling and found if I focused on the feeling hard enough really weird stuff stared to happen. Things like the tingling sensations became much stronger and slowly a total euphoria would envelope me to the point of uncontrolled sexual arousal. Then a feeling like my body is slowly swelling becoming full of air. My muscles would start to twitch and my body/limbs would start moving on there own slowly stiffening until voluntary movement of any part of my body is almost impossible. My face feels like a balloon with my eyes and lips bulging due to the strain. There is no pain at all, but I do make grunting noises do to the strain. Just like I am straining with every fiber of my body. It then slowly subsides pretty quickly like the air is being let out of me. I will have a few involuntary jerks and if I try to move an arm or leg to soon and it makes me jerk. I feel totally normal again after maybe a minute or two. I never feel as this is happening I am about to lose consciousness although things do get very fuzzy and sounds become muffled. Duration of the event varies leading up to total euphoria before the actual muscle contractions start. The actual full on jerking/shaking contractions where I cannot control any part of my body only last about ten to fifteen seconds.
In researching what might have happened I stumbled on the photosensitive seizure warning stuff and decided to see if that would cause anything like what was happening when I was trying to meditate. I found that if I watch a flashing strobe video I start feeling something almost immediately. The thing is even though I feel something it can take five to ten minutes with the feelings slowly building to the euphoria then everything becomes a blur and the same total body muscle contractions start.
I have never watched someone having a seizure and understand there are many different types and triggers. I am wondering what exactly is happening to me. I am to the point I can get myself very relaxed and stare at something until I start seeing flashes and auras around it. Then the feeling in my head starts and if I concentrate on it all the symptoms will happen building to the seizure event or whatever it is. There is as of now nothing in the form of after effects after these events other than neck soreness I guess from the strain.
I am looking for input from people who actually have seizures as to what might be happening to me. I am wondering how dangerous these things are? Should they be avoided? They are almost like a drug because they are so pleasant. Nothing is scary about them or painful, even the part where my muscles are in contraction feels good. Thanks.
So when I started to try meditation I would get many of the classic symptoms of going into a trance. Waves of tingling sensations flowing from head to toe, body heaviness, slight euphoria, etc.. Then one day I had a weird feeling and found if I focused on the feeling hard enough really weird stuff stared to happen. Things like the tingling sensations became much stronger and slowly a total euphoria would envelope me to the point of uncontrolled sexual arousal. Then a feeling like my body is slowly swelling becoming full of air. My muscles would start to twitch and my body/limbs would start moving on there own slowly stiffening until voluntary movement of any part of my body is almost impossible. My face feels like a balloon with my eyes and lips bulging due to the strain. There is no pain at all, but I do make grunting noises do to the strain. Just like I am straining with every fiber of my body. It then slowly subsides pretty quickly like the air is being let out of me. I will have a few involuntary jerks and if I try to move an arm or leg to soon and it makes me jerk. I feel totally normal again after maybe a minute or two. I never feel as this is happening I am about to lose consciousness although things do get very fuzzy and sounds become muffled. Duration of the event varies leading up to total euphoria before the actual muscle contractions start. The actual full on jerking/shaking contractions where I cannot control any part of my body only last about ten to fifteen seconds.
In researching what might have happened I stumbled on the photosensitive seizure warning stuff and decided to see if that would cause anything like what was happening when I was trying to meditate. I found that if I watch a flashing strobe video I start feeling something almost immediately. The thing is even though I feel something it can take five to ten minutes with the feelings slowly building to the euphoria then everything becomes a blur and the same total body muscle contractions start.
I have never watched someone having a seizure and understand there are many different types and triggers. I am wondering what exactly is happening to me. I am to the point I can get myself very relaxed and stare at something until I start seeing flashes and auras around it. Then the feeling in my head starts and if I concentrate on it all the symptoms will happen building to the seizure event or whatever it is. There is as of now nothing in the form of after effects after these events other than neck soreness I guess from the strain.
I am looking for input from people who actually have seizures as to what might be happening to me. I am wondering how dangerous these things are? Should they be avoided? They are almost like a drug because they are so pleasant. Nothing is scary about them or painful, even the part where my muscles are in contraction feels good. Thanks.