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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

OP posts:
Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 19:40

It's quite an unusual fridge too.

OP posts:
pippinsleftleg · 22/12/2022 19:54

Where’s the Christmas fridge thread? I love a well organised fridge!

Also placemarking for when you eventually find the room.

VestaTilley · 22/12/2022 20:30

Draw it, describe it closely, take a photo of the drawing with the date next to it. Then stash it away.

Your bigger challenge will come if you do, one day, see the room…please come back and update us!

VestaTilley · 22/12/2022 20:33

LOVE the diagram!!

Crunchymum · 22/12/2022 20:38

What have your medical team said about this? Am interested to see what the 'scientists' (so to speak) ma

Crunchymum · 22/12/2022 20:38

Make of it*

Giveaschitt · 22/12/2022 20:46

This is reminding me of watching a Miss Marple many many years ago, where a woman moves in to a lovely old house, with specific ideas about how she wants to decorate some of the rooms. Strips the wallpaper off in the bedroom to find underneath the exact very specific wallpaper pattern she'd been planning....

Turned out she'd visited the house as a small child and witnessed a murder, never told anyone and blocked the whole thing from her mind....

Not really relevant but I now really want to find and watch it!

Baconand · 22/12/2022 20:53

I have a parasomnia, when I have an episode I am awake but in a completely different reality. It’s very strange. But I rather like it most of the time.

Time travel inside your head is entirely possible I am sure. Really hope the room is found!

Epilepsy · 22/12/2022 20:54

@pippinsleftleg I can't link as the app is useless but it's in the Christmas topic!

My neurology team say the not recognising the present is quite common with seizures and is called jamais vu (obviously the opposite to deja vu). It's similar to the feeling you get if you look at your face in the mirror for too long and it eventually seems unfamiliar, or like a word also does if you read it over and over. Brains are fascinating.

I haven't told them I can see the future yet Grin but I'll let you all know how the conversation goes Smile

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PriamFarrl · 22/12/2022 21:06

Well that sounds like my bedroom. I’m, of course, beautiful and confused.

anexcellentwoman · 22/12/2022 21:06

Sorry if this is not relevant, whenever I dream about a place I know, it is never the actual place but a very different version of it. I taught in the same school for twenty odd years. Dreamed about it a lot but everything about it was different. My brain went to the trouble of creating a different building rather than using the one I knew so well. Why?

BlackFlyChardonnay · 22/12/2022 21:13

Placemarking.

Floydthebarber · 22/12/2022 22:17

I have nothing helpful but find this fascinating! like a PP I suffer migraines and before I get one I often get incredibly realistic tastes, just like I am eating a very specific food, sometimes part of a meal from years ago, I suddenly remember it. Time is also off after the migraine, I can doze off for five minutes and it feels like I've been asleep for hours.

I'm going to suggest that the room is a room from tv or something that you have totally forgotten about because it was not important but your brain has a really detailed memory of it.

DysgwrCymraeg · 22/12/2022 22:34

@Giveaschitt, the episode you're thinking of is called The Blue Geranium

Daydre4mer · 22/12/2022 22:40

Ahhh wish this was a zombie thread I had stumbled upon and the OP did indeed see into future and was updating MN!

tonyhawks23 · 22/12/2022 22:47

Have you watched1899 on Netflix?I'm just watching it you should if you haven't yet.yes please do keep us updated it's intreguing.

Giveaschitt · 22/12/2022 22:51

DysgwrCymraeg · 22/12/2022 22:34

@Giveaschitt, the episode you're thinking of is called The Blue Geranium

Ah no, it's not that one - bit of Googling and it was Sleeping Murder

Coffeesnob11 · 22/12/2022 23:00

I have night terrors where I run around and I have my eyes open and essentially hallucinate. Most of it feel scary AF but often I dream of really boring everyday situations as part of it that inevitably come true. Sadly I never predict the lottery numbers

DysgwrCymraeg · 22/12/2022 23:21

Giveaschitt · 22/12/2022 22:51

Ah no, it's not that one - bit of Googling and it was Sleeping Murder

Ah yes, of course, you're right! I was thinking of the cornflowers on the wallpaper.

BMrs · 22/12/2022 23:36

Oooh fine this so interesting! Please update if you find the room!

TheMightyOak · 22/12/2022 23:51

Fascinating OP. If your brain has remembered that exact moment in time from the past then it doesn't seem impossible that the same could happen from the future. I mean I guess it depends what 'time' is, doesn't it? Whether it's linear or more circular - If the future has already happened then it could be in the past as well 🧐

I often feel I've been to a place/or dreamt about it even though I haven't been there before. Or I'll get that deja vu feeling really strongly. It's weird.

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth..."

SomeBeings · 22/12/2022 23:54

You can't see into the future. It's impossible. You should, however, just enjoy the wonderful feeling of those incredibly real dreams. I get de ja vue and it can go on for maybe a minute or so. I'm aware it's de ja vue but everything that's happening feels like it's already happened. It's such a real feeling. I love it. Everything also feels a little more real than usual life, the colours are more vivid and my perception of movement and perspective feels heightened,

I don't so drugs but maybe it's similar.

HashBrownandBeans · 22/12/2022 23:59

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.

I have sleep paralysis and often see giant white spiders

OP, I had reoccurring lucid dreams of the home I now live in for YEARS as a teenager. They occurred from the ages of 7 up until 14. As soon as I came to view it I recognised it and cried.

We moved in here when my daughter was 7 and she moved to her dads aged 14. Was I seeing it through her eyes? Who knows.

Mamai90 · 23/12/2022 00:01

I'm place marking too.

I was a very logical person up until 4 years ago when I lost someone close to me. I won't go into details because I can't be arsed with the eye rolls 🙄 but something changed for me after that, and definitely for the better. I'm getting more woo by the day haha and I don't mind if that makes me sound 'unhinged'.

Beautyfadesdumbisforever · 23/12/2022 00:02

Agatha Christie’s Sleeping Murder.

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