Posted by MB on July 28, 2001, at 22:58:54
In reply to Re: Obsessive Musical Tunes » MB, posted by Mitch on July 28, 2001, at 19:28:48
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> > > Yes, in my case it does sound very much like that. I don't get the facial corollary, however I DID used to (and still do at times) have echolalia when I was a teenager , also about the time the "scale illusions" started-which is very suspicious for temporal lobe epilepsy. We may not be talking about exactly the "same" thing, but I believe it is coming from the same part of the brain. Oh another thing I found out from a little researching-people with TLE may sometimes have "echopraxia" which is imitation of another person's behaviour (sometimes unconsciously), I also have done that. It is like instead of repeating the last word of someone's else's sentence, you start talking like them (mannerisms and accents, etc.) or posturing like them-I have done that too....
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> > > I will look through any followups when I get back on Sunday,
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> > When you talk about "scale illusions, are you talking about illusions about the sizes of things (like putting on the wrong glasses? If so, I don't think I've had that (yet, thank God!).
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> Well, not exactly (although it is a little like that). It is more like sitting on a couch or something and suddenly the room seems very very large and you feel very very large as well. I guess it can go the other way-but I have always had the "huge" or "cavernous" type illusions. Mostly inside, but sometimes outside.
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> MitchI remember sitting in class as an eighth grader and realizing, suddenly, that everything was just plain weird...like it wasn't real...none of it, not the classroom, not me, not the students, etc. It was really freaky. I remember thinking, "well, this is it, I've finally flipped." I remember actually wondering if I was going to wake up from the experience to find it was a dream. The size didn't seem wrong, but the whole experience seemed wrong or just plain "off."
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