alt Hacker NewsI developed epilepsy a few years ago and each of the two times I had a waking tonic clonic aka “Grand Mal” it felt like they describe the brain when it’s dying.
It’s the closest thing I’ve heard people describe as dying so it can be profound.
Incidentally my neurologist said that she had patients that don’t stop their seizures because they feel like they areare mystical or part of their mental work. That’s a wild thought to me given the risks, but I can understand it, given how you feel on the other side.
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mahrain • yesterday at 7:38 AM
Without spoiling too much, this is a major theme in Dan Brown's latest novel 'the secret of secrets'.
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cantor_S_drug • yesterday at 10:08 AM
Ramachandran, the Temporal Lobes Epilepsy and God - Part 1
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baddash • yesterday at 6:58 AM
what was it like for you
> they areare mystical or part of their mental work.
In ancient Greece, epilepsy was called the "holy disease" and it was believed that gods speak through the patient during a seizure.