It's really interesting to read how this is interpreted. Especially the way some people see it as a physical thing (getting dizzy, migraines, sugar) and people who see this as something more mental, like anxiety.
In my case, I'm on the side of the anxiety. Sometimes, I start to overthink, many thoughts come at the same time, images, memories, voices. And I have to just say "hold on" and try to remember that I'm there at that moment and nothing is happening.
Oh my god my heart goes out to you. I get vasovagal syncope, exactly as you described. Sometimes triggered by anything-needles or for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Tunnel vision, muffled/ringing hearing, cold sweat, then completely ragdoll. Now I'm physically dependent on xanax, yaaay.
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I have this sensation on a daily basis. Like a surreal wooO0Ooon wooO0Ooon in my ears. It increases in pitch and volume, distorting the noises around me and making me feel kinda dizzy. It's more common when I'm almost asleep, but I also experience it throughout the day.
hippocampus glutamate
glutamate storm
risk of ministroke
can be caused by magnesium + zinc imbalance, poor sleep, dehydration, stress. Fatigue may also need thiamine. May need cardiovascular exercise to increase the clearance rate of the glutamate, potentially~.
Hippocampus is tied to perspective.
Yeah, feels like my head is being electrocuted just for a moment. They tend to trigger panic attacks, doc called them "brain zaps" and not to worry about them
It happens to me quite often, it's tinnitus and sometimes it gets so strong that it's like going underwater and having pressure on your head. It happens when I'm stressed, tired...
I like how this seems to be interpreted differently by commenters XD For me, I will randomly get this extremely dizzy and almost dissociative feeling for less than a second, then it goes away but leaves me super freaked out. I hate it and wish I knew what it was
My god, I didn’t know this would be so relatable to others.. but I guess I am glad in a way that it seems sort of like a normal thing, since I’ve never really been able to get any explanation from doctors
This makes me think of random anxiety. Sometimes just sitting around on an uneventful day and then suddenly having anxiety for no discernable reason 030
its hard to describe to me sometimes i will be reading or thinking about something then i get a pulse in my head for a second then its done and sometimes wont happen again for months or sometimes can happen again the same day
You’ve really tapped into a sensation a lot of people are vibing with! Thank you for drawing this, it feels really impactful to see so many people just point at this art and say “Ay, me too”
why yes i have
but its more my vision zooms out and theres void around it and i have to zoom back in cause i don't really want to find out what happens when i noclip
Oh, like the screaming in the head? Or feeling as if your to big for your brain at times or two small?... I hope that isn't just me... the screeming has gone down though...
anxiety enhances my issue of seeing a shade of dark radiating in the sky like a wifi signal
and visual static i usually thought was just observable air volume
ouuuu this happens to me when i get really upset too quickly!!! it’s like a mini seizure or something is what my doctor told me. i get that feeling and then my eyes rapidly move from left to right so i can’t see shit until it goes away very freaky
I recently tried edibles for the first time. This was the sorta visual I was getting in my head too. Like, if I were to ever draw what it felt like physically, this would be it. The whole multicolored afterimages aspect.
i have adhd and my brain does this sometimes and its like: * oh what the f**k-" and then normal again. so its just ends up like: " what was that about!?"
When I was first titrating adhd meds, i'd get this the day or two after going up a dose
it felt like a soft tingle at the front of my brain, like the sorta feeling of soda on your tongue... but behind my forehead? only for a few seconds but it def felt like chromatic aberration & jpeg artifacts
Yes! I was told it could be anything from a sugar spike to a vertigo spell.
Since I'm diabetic, it's often a sugar spike. I wouldn't have known if I wasn't diagnosed xD
I can do that at will. I learned how when we had one of those Seeing Eye books where you can only see the funky 3D object in the nonsensical images if you look weird at it. Now I use it to dissociate. ;v;
my interpretation of this
when i was younger i would some times suddenly experiance fits of the room spinning and my vision bluring, would need to lie down to not freak out as my perception of the world flipped out, this was between the ages of 10-16 when this would happen
it was scary when it hit
I get anxiety attacks like that, where I feel like I'm vibrating apart. Heartbeat takes off, random intrusive memories/thoughts, I hyperventilate softly, heat builds up until like I feel like I'm burning & then I cool down. It's the worst. TwT
I get it a couple ways:
-Too many thoughts
-Thoughts abstracting from speech and concepts becoming alien and grotesque
-becoming aware of multiple levels of existence
-When I start to feint
Its entirely different from anxiety or paranoia.
I still struggle with how it fits into my belief system, but leaning into it gives me more than ignoring it.
It's like being airdropped, or when your driving and you feel the hairs on your neck stand up when someone is staring at you
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Personally, this looks like a good way to describe dissociation, where you lose focus and lose reality. But then bringing yourself back together, hell I have put my hands on the sides of my head to come back to reality myself a couple times, it's a good grounding technique IMO.
I get what you mean. For me, it fells like some sort of self-decentering and constant loss of focus on your own existence or something like that. I dunno, it just sorta happens sometimes 😅
Oh yeah all the time... I call those "the brain zaps". When you got a bunch of stuff going on and your mind just goes BZZZZZZZZT! and you just have to be like "Yo... hold up... calm down, it ain't time to short out yet"
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If I don't sit down I will faint.
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glutamate storm
risk of ministroke
can be caused by magnesium + zinc imbalance, poor sleep, dehydration, stress. Fatigue may also need thiamine. May need cardiovascular exercise to increase the clearance rate of the glutamate, potentially~.
Hippocampus is tied to perspective.
sometimes I'll have it like randomly in the middle of streaming or playing a game or something and for me it's almost auditory so it "feels loud"
Feels like a reversed cymbal hit or smth
i mean, i'm surely not the only one on this reply section with a tattoo or another method of checking to be awake when in doubt, right?
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Either way, yes
But yes
Absolutely
or specifically, anxiety medication withdrawal.
Sometimes my divine light gets severed too.
but its more my vision zooms out and theres void around it and i have to zoom back in cause i don't really want to find out what happens when i noclip
It happens often with me
Its a weird experience
and visual static i usually thought was just observable air volume
Have I experienced this yes.
Like FPS stutters. But applied to a body.
it felt like a soft tingle at the front of my brain, like the sorta feeling of soda on your tongue... but behind my forehead? only for a few seconds but it def felt like chromatic aberration & jpeg artifacts
Since I'm diabetic, it's often a sugar spike. I wouldn't have known if I wasn't diagnosed xD
Like I’m out of body and my brain is operating without my consent
when i was younger i would some times suddenly experiance fits of the room spinning and my vision bluring, would need to lie down to not freak out as my perception of the world flipped out, this was between the ages of 10-16 when this would happen
it was scary when it hit
-Too many thoughts
-Thoughts abstracting from speech and concepts becoming alien and grotesque
-becoming aware of multiple levels of existence
-When I start to feint
Its entirely different from anxiety or paranoia.
I still struggle with how it fits into my belief system, but leaning into it gives me more than ignoring it.
It's like being airdropped, or when your driving and you feel the hairs on your neck stand up when someone is staring at you
💭👻
That and the "my head is floating out of my head and the entire world is tilting heavily at an angle" are very... Weird sensations
In Technicolor as well.
(POTS is funnnn /sarc)