Please help me make sense of this experience, but bear with me as it is pure cray cray.
A picture comes into my mind and I’m trying to discern if it’s a real setting I know or fictional; it feels familiar a bit like a de ja vu or a scene from a movie I’ve seen once. Then from that image, people and places and concepts and thoughts almost tumble out of it; boom boom boom boom boom, like that. I’m trying to make sense of each image or thought or concept but I can’t place any of it and as soon as I try to focus on one image it become blurry and dissolves. It feels like the process of trying to remember a movie and some of it you can see but it’s vague and it’s muddled by other cross over memories from similar films etc.
Then as I’m focused on trying to figure out what this means and what all these images are connected to; I feel a sudden onset of very frightened and worried for no reason. I feel scared and that maybe I’m dying and that everything is suddenly terrifying.
This vast fear starts as big as the room almost and then descends on me like a circle and flushes through my body from head to toe in the form of tingles; most noticeably down my arms and into my hands. In that tingly moment I feel like I’m having a heart attack and might collapse and die.
And then it’s gone.
The whole thing took less than a minute; 30 seconds really.
So my question is; WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
Is it a panic attack? It happened three times in one evening. For absolutely no discernible reason.
I’m worried I’m losing my marbles.
Is this a panic attack? It was so small and short lived. I always assumed panic attacks lasted a few minutes at least.