Epilepsy patients were more likely to report prior fatigue and concentrated activity, associated derealisation, olfactory and gustatory hallucinations, physical symptoms such as headaches, abdominal sensations and fear. Epileptic déjà vu occurred more frequently and lasted somewhat longer than physiological déjà vu. The experience of déjà vu itself was similar in the three groups. Data were collected on demographic factors, the experience of déjà vu using a questionnaire based on Sno's Inventory for Déjà Vu Experiences Assessment, symptoms of anxiety and depression using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale as well as seizure characteristics, anti-epileptic medications, handedness, EEG and neuroimaging findings for epileptic patients.ħ3.5% of neurology patients, 88% of students and (by definition) all epilepsy patients had experienced déjà vu. It is unclear whether any clinical features distinguish pathological and physiological forms of déjà vu.ĥ0 epileptic patients with ictal déjà vu, 50 non-epileptic patients attending general neurology clinics and 50 medical students at Edinburgh University were recruited. Sometimes, nothing happens, and it doesn’t progress into a larger seizure, but I personally would rather be overprepared for an oncoming seizure than underprepared.Déjà vu can occur as an aura of temporal lobe epilepsy and in some psychiatric conditions but is also common in the general population. I have learned that if I am experiencing Déjà Vu, I can’t tell if it’s an aura and is going to progress into a larger seizure or not, so getting myself on the ground and notifying my support team if they’re with me is an important thing to do. Our ‘rational’ brain tries to make sense of these discordant inputs, which leaves us feeling familiar and unfamiliar all at once.”Ī feeling of Déjà Vu can be either an aura (a ‘warning’ before a larger seizure such as a tonic-clonic seizure) or the symptoms of a seizure itself (as Déjà Vu is one of the symptoms of a focal aware seizure). Robert Fisher, an epileptologist at Stanford University has stated that “a seizure in sets off a sensation of familiarity and emotions uncoupled from the real environment. Specific parts of the temporal lobe also play a role in recognizing something as ‘familiar’, which is related to Déjà Vu.ĭr. Things like long-term memories, events, and facts are all pushed to that area of the brain. In the brain, the temporal lobe controls memories. According to an article by the University of Pennsylvania, Déjà Vu is particularly common in people who have what is known as Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, which is what I have.
#Deja vu seizure movie#
I would get in fights with my family because I was 100% sure we had picked a movie to watch that we had already seen, even though it had just come out that night.ĭéjà Vu is not always related to epilepsy, but it can reflect seizure activity in the brain. As my epilepsy continued to go untreated, I had more and more of these moments. Not just a feeling that I had experienced sitting in class before, because of course I had, but a feeling that the exact same moment had replayed itself from another time in my life. When I was 16, I was sitting in class listening to my teacher and I had this odd feeling that I had experienced that exact same moment before.
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