My form of seizure disorder is aggrivated by lack of sleep. Different conditions, different people, different triggers.
Just as frequently I have people ask me what is like to have a seizure. The most accurate metaphor I can think of is a VCR. Your POV is determined by what is able to be recorded or clearly diplayed from the VCR. Normally we are on REC, taking in the information we are given. From time to time we may want to recall a memory so we RWD, and focus when we pause. Even when not in use the VCR is calm, running as it should.
A seizure brought on by whatever trigger, presses several buttons all at once in a chaotic scramble for undetermined amount of time. This over works all the gears inside, everything tries to stop and go at the same time. The VHS inside begins to get warm and stress the film ribbon.
And then. It Stops.
Go to recall what was last recorded. Buttons half jammed. Film distorted and possibly heading for another scramble.
That is what it is like. You are living your life, thinking yours thoughts when suddenly you are a passenger in your own body. Something else is controlling your memory, actions and conciousness. Sometimes it's like a flip of a switch, no time to process anything.You may drop to the floor in a grand mal or simply blank out where you stand, staring at nothing until you are allowed back into reality.
Other times, you are concious and you feel your arm move like a dramatic reflex or you jaw twitches so deep you stutter mid sentence.
For those who didn't grow up watching Candian Cable TV,Dr. PenFeild made great discoveries in how the medical profession treated neurologoical conditions. They used to take peices of brain from those suffering with "Mental/Neurological Defects" without knowing the trigger, nor the location of the issue.