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People Talk About Their Out-Of-Body Experiences

July 22, 2020
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People speak of their own experiences:

“The best way I can describe it is that it was like watching television in your mind.”

Posted in Epilepsy, Research
Tags: alterations of consciousness, brain goes awry, distorted, erratic, errors in the body's sense of self, illuminate, instabilities, OBE, opportunity, out-of-body experience, own experiences, paralyzed, puzzle, reality, simple partial seizures, temporal lobe, time

Epilepsy at the Movies — Don’t Believe What You See or Hear!

July 10, 2019
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I bet you won’t be surprised to hear that epilepsy is most often depicted in sci-fi and horror films.

Just think of “The Andromeda Strain”, “Crazed”, “Deadwood”, “The Exorcist”, “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”, “Frankenstein”, “The Garden State”, “Lighthouse” and “The Terminal Man” to name a few.

DEMONIC = EPILEPTIC!

Posted in Epilepsy
Tags: bias, distorted, Epilepsy, horror, movies, stereotyped

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