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The Necker Cube Illusion [but for reals]
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It is like there is an idea or representation of a person in my mind that I recognize as that person. And sometimes I'll see a person, someone that I know and see daily even, and it takes a second for that mental representation to click in to place. And for those few instants, if I even recognize them, they look very strange to me.
This is especially pronounced if I haven't seen a person in a while. A person will be a complete stranger to me, and then suddenly something clicks in to place in my brain and they look like they always and ever have.
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Actually come to think of it, location wise. I sometimes get lost in familiar places. It isn't something that has ever worried me, because my mother has complained of pretty much the exact same experience for years without any other problems.
I'll be driving or walking somewhere, going along the same rout that I do daily, and then I just don't know where I am. I don't recognize any of the buildings, streets, have no idea what direction I am going, etc. It usually lasts less than a minute, and then everything starts making sense again.
It seems to be triggered by stress.
What is really far out about this one is that when it happens with people the effect exists only when they can see the person. Often if they just hear their voice, like over the phone, they recognize the person with no problem, but when they see them they just don't recognize them as the person they are familiar with.
Yeah, they're visual processing disorders.
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You are not alone in that department. I have experienced similar though one only time where it was rather uncomfortable. I suddenly "forgot" to breathe and had to consciously "think" about inhaling and exhaling to breathe. It went away after an hour.
It's different form being having to consciously breathe (that happens fairly often, infact it is happening now with all this talk of breathing), it's just that I can't figure out how to inhale or exhale at all.
It sounds like you had a migrain...
I get this all the time.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/migraine-with-aura/DS00908
I get the zigzags. My peripheral goes as well for a bit after. However, Ive noticed that its actually that the aura moves off to the side of my vision and keeps moving that way, blinding my periphral until its gone.
Mine also comes with numbness in my face, hands and inability to remember basic stuff. Its like mini-strokes. The first few times it was scary as shit. Lucky for me, the numbness and lack of thinking has gotten a lot less servere over the years.
In other news...has anyone ever experienced a general feeling of sizes being off. Like, my hands will seem like they are huge, or something Im holding will just seem too small or too big. Or the room itself. Especially distances between objects. Things just seem...off. It doesnt happen often, but when it does its weird. Only lasts for a bit.
Cause just looking at that picture makes me a bit sick in my tummy and angry.
I swear I see NUMBERS in my auras. Like, if I could just focus on them a bit more I could read out some code...
I get migraines without aura.
It's like, hey, let's take an interesting but extremely painful thing...
and take out the interesting part.
I get aura without the migraine.
Har har.
You guys should get together.
They can be fairly unpleasant.
GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
They ruin my day.
A headache, I can deal with, but not being able to use my right hand or see straight or carry a conversation...no way.
I have a friend who has never once gotten a headache. Not from anything ever. We plan on entering him into ice cream eating contests.
Seriously!
Pain is manageable. Losing most of my vision, having wonky depth perception, racing thoughts, distractibility, and mood swings? Erg.
I guess I should consider myself lucky.
GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
The little research I've done has been inconclusive since it's not severe enough to be anything I've read about that is similar.
Also, Feral, you mention mood swings, is that a symptom of migrains? I notice that i am kind of a grouchy dick around a bat of migrains, and I have begun coming to a conclusion that they may be related. I didnt know if my ill temper was causing stress that lead to migrains, or if my migrains were causing my short temper...
They are common when peeing. I get them too. I was actually surprised to learn it was more common in men, since I'd assumed it was the cold seat making me shiver.
That sucks. The only migraine symptom I get besides pain is photophobia and a hatred of sounds.
Also there is lots of crying and curling into a ball and wishing I were dead. But that's related to the pain.
I have this too.
My neurologist doesn't know what it is. So uh, yeah.
But my migraines are special. I think all I get are migraines. I get really bad splitting ones where the inside of one of my eye will have sharp throbbing pains, and then I get "normal" headaches that aren't so bad. Except that they're actually migraines, I'm just used to them.
I went to the neurologist complaining about how I get a few different types of headaches, and said that I only get migraines every few months, at most, but I get other headaches more frequently, and described them.
He just said "uh, those are actually migraines too. Those have like all of the symptoms, and don't match up with tension headaches or anything."
So I apparently don't get normal headaches. I'm just so used to migraines so I thought that they were normal.
It can be, yeah.
I used to get those regularly, now only occasionally. Annoying, especially when I'm trying to sleep in.
And on the subject of sleep, it still completely boggles me the way dreams fade. It's just there, and then I couldn't be forced at gunpoint to explain what I'd been dreaming. I usually don't remember my dreams at all, which is nice because when I do and they fade like that it ruins my morning.
Me too. They're actually really common, though they get less common with age.
I learned the clinical name for them once, but I can't remember right now.
The only thing I have that even comes close to being significant is that I can never un-associate places with the way I imagine them, especially in dreams or nightmares. If I have a nightmare in which the downstairs closet is actually filled with dismembered people, every time I remember it after that, no matter what the reason, it will always be the closet full of dismembered people.
Oh, sure, I know there aren't corpses in there. But when I think of it, that's always what it will be in my memory. It's not even scary. It's just weird because the real memory is replaced entirely by the false one unless concentrated upon.
Same. I have to make the conscious decision to wake up at a certain time, though sometimes I'll get anxious and just want to wake up early and that can lead to waking up REALLY early and then sleeping in 40 minute spurts for the rest of the morning.
I sometimes have dreams that are so mundane that I mistake them for memories. It works with the way I can't remember dreams and that I have a bad memory to begin with. For example, I will run into a person I haven't seen for a while and when I try to remember our last conversation I have to make very sure that what I'm remembering actually happened and wasn't a dream. I can always tell what was a dream in the end, but it's still weird that the first memories I dredge up are false.
The first and most frightening experience I had was while I was in biology class and I began to have a progressively more difficult time reading the whiteboard. Eventually it got to the point where I could only see portions depending on how I tilted my head. The rest of the room seemed somewhat normal, but it was as if the black marker on the board suddenly became invisible.
My sight eventually cleared up, and about thirty minutes later was replaced with a severe headache and nausea. I've since found that when the symptoms begin to show, closing my eyes and turning off the lights tend to both hasten the arrival of the headache and lessen the pain.
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Have a friend spin you in a chair!
I noticed that my aura seems to float off to one side and eventually vanish. So I figured, lets hasten the procees with some spinning!
My friend, who is currently a resident at some hospital in chicago wanted no part in the affair and advised us against it. My other friend, who is not remotely a doctor agreed to spin me. Within minutes all symptoms were gone. This has worked twice out of two attempts.
We have since stopped asking our doctor friend for medical advice and instead ask each other, in front of him, loudly.
I get this as well, I just call them cold chills and ignore them.
My real fun brain thing is caused by low blood pressure / dehydration. I stand up too fast and depending on how dehydrated I am, my vison will start going dark, I'll lose feeling in my face, hands, or feet, my legs will start twitching or give out completely, or in one really fun case everything went completely black and then suddenly I was staring up from the floor. Which freaked out my boyfriend at the time, because my eyes were wide open and staring like a corpse, he though I'd died.
What's interesting about these events is that when they happen, I also lose all recognition of where I am. I KNOW where I am, if it happens in my living room my brain can say 'Whelp, I was in my living room a second ago and so obviously I'm still in my living room' but looking around nothing is familiar. As in I know by deduction that that is my couch, but I don't immediately recognize it as my couch.