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AIBU to believe this room exists?

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Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 15:23

I have epilepsy (nocturnal so usually a seizure just before waking). I have had a previous thread about the oddness of the post ictal period as I don't recognise the present (jamais vu as opposed to deja vu) and am convinced I am in the past when I come round. This isn't like a memory, it's really like time travel in its level of clarity and detail eg the other day I was convinced my DD didn't need to be picked up primary school as she was going to her friend Joanna's house for tea. I did not believe DH when he said DD is actually at university at the other end of the country Grin I knew what subject DD had as her last lesson at school that day, what I put in her lunchbox and how her hair was plaited etc. DD doesn't even remember Joanna as it was a short lived friendship and I don't think I would even remember her name under "normal" circumstances. In addition I have had instances where I recall "provable" stuff like car registration plates, postcodes, insurance reference numbers etc from over thirty years ago. I do not have anywhere near that level of memory in "real life" Grin in fact my short term memory is fucked due to seizures/meds and I usually can't remember what I said/did 10 mins ago!

Anyway, recently I have had uncontrolled seizures and a change of meds and have been having extremely lucid post ictal periods but (this sounds ridiculous typing it Blush) they are different and I believe it is the future I am "seeing" not the past. Bear with me Grin As this thread is already outing I can't describe the exact scenarios as they concern my DC, but they aren't situations that I already knew about subconsciously or could have been told about and forgotten, these are one off and very unlikely events that couldn't have been predicted eg a week after my seizure, DD meets a brand new friend in a bar who <insert something niche and unexpected here like their father is now a monk, or their aunt is a member of Hearsay> I haven't told my DC about these seizure "visions" so they wouldn't have known this would happen.

I realise I sound a trifle unhinged Grin let me reassure you I am a cynical down to earth person in RL who doesn't believe in any creepy woo bollocks.

My seizures aren't controlled at present and in the last three I have woken up in a room that is very detailed and I absolutely believe it exists and I or one of my DCs will see it in the future and possibly live in a house with it? It isn't a grey standard living room with a feature wall (sorry to people with this room) It has a distinct patterned carpet and white wardrobe and storage with particular handles.

I am actually laughing a bit myself typing this, as it sounds so ridiculous. I suppose I'm posting partly in the hope I can come back to this thread in five years with a photo of said room (imagine!) but also interested in MNers opinions especially non woo type believers like myself (usually). My last thread was interesting as some people had experienced the jamais vu phenomena so maybe someone has also had this? The irony is I would assume they are talking bollocks normally Grin

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Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 15:26

Maybe I should draw a picture or a diagram of the room like a parking thread? Over excited and unhinged, not a good look is it really BlushGrin

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W0tnow · 22/12/2022 15:27

I vote draw it.

SleepingStandingUp · 22/12/2022 15:29

I vote draw it and date it so that in 5 years when you hVe the photo you have empirical evidence you time travelled.

The important thing if you go back is not to change anything. You never know how this will snowball.

We've taught this to our 7 yo son as a fact. If he ever gets to time travel, he goes forwards only. Occasionally he asks his dad which way he'd go, just to test him.

Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 15:38

I am actually re-reading Time Traveller's Wife at the moment interestingly (inspired by what's happening). If anyone hasn't seen the recent TV series I thought it was really good.

Right I am off to find a pen that hasn't disappeared into my DCs room along with my sellotape...

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Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 15:38

My fucking sellotape has clearly time travelled somewhere else too Wink

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Ponderingwindow · 22/12/2022 15:40

My migraines often provoke an electrical storm that unlocks incredibly detailed memories.

it also provides incredibly vivid dreams. They are so vivid they feel like events actually transpiring, not dreams, but thankfully mine tend to transform into the bizarre at some point.

still worth writing down for evidence if you want to do a little test.

TofuonToast · 22/12/2022 15:41

I’ve had some extremely bizarre lucid dreams. The breakdown of the metaphysical universe type stuff. So I believe you!

CitronVert22 · 22/12/2022 15:42

Memory is weird so I can believe that that weirdness coupled with the epilepsy would do some odd stuff. Our brains are just a bunch of electrical activity after all and yours is a bit wonky. And the memory thing: I can recall numbers from my childhood, but not the equivalent from now - that's pretty normal.

forththeroast · 22/12/2022 15:48

Perhaps you should look into Buddhism or quantum physics @Epilepsy as it might give you some ideas about how we experience reality?

Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 15:56

Brains really are weird aren't they? My neurologist said in years to come we will understand so much more we will look back in amazement at what we didn't know. (I also forgot to say my cat knows when I am going to have a seizure as she comes to sit on my chest in the night.)

@forththeroast DH keeps telling me about (He knows much more about this than me - I can't even grasp the concept of it) alternate universes where every option is actually happening in time eg if I decide not to draw a diagram that scenario is happening in an alternative universe)

Right I shall try to upload it. In some way I think this room is connected with DS which is odd.

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Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 15:57

My wonderful drawing skills!

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Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 15:57

Fuck sake. Let me try again...

AIBU to believe this room exists?
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W0tnow · 22/12/2022 15:58

I love that your cat knows when you will have a seizure!

Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 15:58

The memory of it has faded a bit now, if I experience it again I will try and get it down more quickly with better details.

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Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 15:59

@W0tnow apparently it's common with dogs and they can be trained as specific epilepsy dogs! My cat is a one off in all sorts of ways though Grin

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Lividity · 22/12/2022 16:00

Following this post for The Future 👀

Fromage · 22/12/2022 16:02

Applause for "beautiful yet confused woman" 😁

Could this room be somewhere you very briefly visited in the past - a house viewing? Joanna the friend? - or from a tv programme or film?

gamerchick · 22/12/2022 16:07

Draw it definitely. Post it to yourself so it's stamped and put it away unopened somewhere.

SquirrelFan · 22/12/2022 16:33

Applause for "beautiful yet confused woman"😁
^this should be your new user name

2catsandhappy · 22/12/2022 16:36

I believe you will see this room one day. I dreamt a room once, very specific and unique. Walked into it a week later. 100 miles away from where I was living, on a trip to a new place.
Maybe you are seeing ds future house.

Reindear · 22/12/2022 16:40

I am invested in this thread. Also love the beautiful yet confused woman

DontStopMeNow7 · 22/12/2022 17:07

If it were me I’d have my phone ready next to me so that when I come around and I’m somewhere else I can immediately take a photo of it. That should confirm whether you are time travelling or having an hallucination ;-)

I hope you do this and let us know what the photo shows!?!

This is so interesting though. I periodically suffer from sleep paralysis. Part of sleep paralysis involves having hallucinations im between the state of waking and sleeping. I once woke up to see a gigantic Amazon sized spider on the wall. It wasn’t there.
I have also experienced touch and heard sounds. It’s literally not like a dream but a full blown very real hallucination/ experience except usually without the visual stuff because I am frozen with my eyes closed. Some are terrifying, one was very cool because I was flying a space ship😂 Luckily it doesn’t happen very often.

People who have seizures are prone to these experiences too.

DontStopMeNow7 · 22/12/2022 17:10

I have very vivid dreams regularly. Some are like soap operas that my brain picks up at a later date. It perplexes me. You could write an amazing novel with this stuff.

Desertbarncat · 22/12/2022 18:08

The problem with this concept is that you may prove it to yourself if you happen to walk into that room in the future, but it won’t be something you can prove to any of us. You can take a picture of a room today and in 5 years post it and say the photo is new.

Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 19:39

Oh you fun sucker @Desertbarncat Grin (although it did occur to me after I had posted I could have done exactly that!)

Well talking of creepy or coincidence...I just went to post my Christmas Fridge photo on the Christmas Fridge Thread and the poster directly above me has the same fridge!

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