Just Saw It. Interesting film
I watched this film on Netflix.
It was a very strange film on a personal level.
I have epilepsy. Luckily it is controlled with medication. Some of the stories and experiences are slightly similar to my own condition but a lot of them are way off from what I experienced. The film sort of played out like a dramatization of a neurological condition.
1) The links between common words.
This is quite common in my condition. After a petit mal or grand mal seizure I would have very very similar experiences. Right after its over, you would look at something, an object or something, and it's something really really basic, like for instance a yellow object, and you look at the color "yellow" and you know what it is that you are looking at but you can't figure out how to say the word "yellow". But you know what it is. It's a very strange experience.
2) Visuals.
In my case there is no issues with vision. But the trippy alternate reality would happen when I had a grand mal -- just before it starts and also just after it finished. It would be like you have entered through some sort of strange reality and you are outside yourself looking back at yourself and everything in the room and everyone in the room. If feels like it lasts for hours and hours but it actually only lasts about a minute. I taught myself later on to look at my watch and keep an eye on it and try to write down the exact hour and minute. After it ends, you look back at the time you realize only 2 minutes have passed. It's a very strange experience.
My condition affects my hearing and the sense of smell. When I was first getting epilepsy and I didn't know that I was getting it I would constantly go through these episodes where I would smell strange smells like rotting vegetation. I would be walking round in the middle of the city in smog, or be in the subway, or at a club and all of a sudden I would smell this strange freshly cut damp rotting grass smell. And I would look around trying to figure out where it's coming from.
I would also hear this strange metallic grinding clanking noise. The noise it impossible to describe. It's a sound like its very very familiar to you and you know intimately what it is but you can't find the right words to describe it properly. It start off really quiet and gradually keeps getting louder and louder and either culminates in a grand mal where you pass out or it just subsides and everything goes away. Some call it auras. Some call it seizures. My neurologist claims there is no such thing as auras. They are all seizures of different intensities. His words. Not mine.
As far as my opinion of the film. It was a well done documentary. It's a little odd because I felt like it was a bit over the top dramatization of what it's really like to have a neurological condition. As I said, I never had a stroke and I have epilepsy and I know that everyone has different degrees of the condition and everyone's experiences are very different who have it. I found it a little over the top that the symptoms would manifest themselves with someone seeing extreme color imbalance and almost fractals in their vision. But I guess it's possible. Best of luck to the person who is going through it.
Anyways. Luckily my condition is controlled by medicine. But thought I would share with others just for the hell of it and let them know this stuff really does exist in real life. :-)
Can this really be the end..to be stuck inside of mobile
with the Memphis blues again.