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jruddy	Visual/Audible Stimulation		Lead	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 413 02/19/08 7:22 PM	Remove this ad Hi, I've noticed on a few occasions that a combination of visual and audible stimulation - usually kids running around making noise, but not always, puts me into an odd foggy state of mind. I don't talk, don't move, I look around, but can't really think straight enough to interact properly. The other stimulations that do this are when I have really bad VS, as well as when I stare into a blue sky until I get "Sky Worms". I'm wondering if it is psychological or part of the whole Persistent Aura experience. Does anyone else get this feeling? Jim
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vidi2		#1	[url]	[-]
Registered User Posts: 63 02/19/08 7:58 PM	This happened to me too. Poor-sighted people do not usually enjoy seeing things move, it makes them uneasy because they are using their eyes the wrong way and unconsciously trying to stop things from moving. Normal-sighted people, on the other hand, love movement and it puts them at ease because they are using their eyes correctly and allowing oppositional movement to naturally take place. I understand about not thinking straight enough to interact with people, used to happen to me all the time and people would ask my other friends, "Is he OK? He seems a little slow..." to which my friends would have to tell them, "No! He is not slow, he is brilliant..." At the time, I did not understand how intimately associated my socializing problems were with vision--but having overcome it, I can reflect back and understand it.
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shannon3fh		#2	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 449 02/19/08 8:07 PM	yes for me too.
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ksomething		#3	[url]	[-]
Registered User Posts: 5010 02/20/08 5:00 AM	Do you have a transitory worsening of vs intensity during exposure to visual & auditory stimuli?
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jruddy		#4	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 413 02/20/08 10:03 AM	I am not aware of a worsening of vs intensity. The 'feeling' that I get is similar to when I have a migraine aura. A bit disoriented, disconnected, that sort of thing. It may be nothing, I'm just curious. I didn't suffer from this effect before the VS started in December, at least not that I recall, and I think I would recall this.
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SopuliSusie		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1496 02/20/08 11:24 AM Administrator	I feel your pain. Malls, for instance, are nightmares. I do all my shopping online. My first migraine aura started like that, along with with some good ol' DP/DR fun. I've had that for years, but I've also had PMA's on and off for years, so I have no idea which one came first. Need to cheer yourself up? Watch the Kitty Cat Dance!
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jruddy		#6	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 413 02/20/08 11:53 AM	Ah - yes, malls and electronics stores - my last migraine was in a Future Shop - kind of like a Best Buy. My brother-in-law invited me to the Toronto Auto show, but I had to decline... what used to be a holy grail for me has become a bit of a hell... And, more self-experimentation results! I put on some loud music - I'd call it techno, but I really don't know what the kids would call it today, kind of like what I imagine rave music is like. Not really my cup of tea. After a few minutes I did notice a bit of mind-fog, then after images were worse. I didn't notice any difference in VS. I did twitch a little more - not even in time to the music... lol... I noticed that while I was trying to come to terms with what was happening my train of thought kept pausing every few seconds. At first I'd lose what I was thinking all together - even mid word, but eventually I was able to hold onto the thought and catch it again after a brief pause of a second or two. Weird eh? I think it's pretty neat. If only I had MPD so I'd have some friends to show this to, first hand... It's too bad I don't feel like I can share this with my doctor - I expect he'd just look at me funny. I CAN'T imagine why... it doesn't sound crazy at all...
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jruddy		#7	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 413 02/20/08 12:01 PM	Remove this ad Understand, these tests I'm doing are highly subjective, meaning, not objective, and not really scientifically relevent - just a bit of fun and curiosity. I was interested to see if I saw more snow. Nope, just remote control buttons every where (after images... )
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ksomething		#8	[url]	[-]
Registered User Posts: 5010 02/21/08 2:04 PM	jruddy wrote: Understand, these tests I'm doing are highly subjective, meaning, not objective, and not really scientifically relevent - just a bit of fun and curiosity. I was interested to see if I saw more snow. Nope, just remote control buttons every where (after images... ) jruddy, can you make a set of 2 pictures illustrating the intensity of afterimages before hearing the techno music (pic 1) and its worsening when hearing techno music (pic 2) http://www.migraine-aura.org/content/e27891/e27265/e42285/e52203/e58029/index_en.html
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jruddy		#9	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 413 02/21/08 3:19 PM	Pic 1 Pic 2
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ksomething		#10	[url]	[-]
Registered User Posts: 5010 02/21/08 3:32 PM	pic 1 shows a faint afterimage, pic 2 a worsening of afterimages Last Edited By: ksomething 02/21/08 4:24 PM. Edited 1 time.
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ksomething		#11	[url]	[-]
Registered User Posts: 5010 02/21/08 3:35 PM	It's difficult to see, but pic 1 shows a faint afterimage of the central part of the remote control apparatus, right? Last Edited By: ksomething 02/21/08 4:25 PM. Edited 1 time.
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jruddy		#12	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 413 02/21/08 4:03 PM	There's a very faint after image of the black middle buttons in the first image.
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jruddy		#13	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 413 02/21/08 4:07 PM	Understand, I normally get afterimages on high contrast objects since getting VS. When this episode happened, the contrast threshold for afterimages seemed to drop and the lenghth of time to recover increased. So on the remote, only the black buttons would normally give me a quick, mild after image.
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ksomething		#14	[url]	[-]
Registered User Posts: 5010 02/21/08 4:09 PM	Remove this ad Thanks! http://www.migraine-aura.org/content/e27891/e27265/e42285/e52203/e58029/index_en.html
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