http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...fers-a-stroke/

And lives to tell the tale....

The above is a very informative clip IMO and brought back memories of a similar thing that happened to myself. I found the thread on another forum and thought I would share. The video in total is approx 18minutes long but it's worth a watch.

My experience:
I was sat at my parents house with my two children and all of a sudden i became aware of my vision starting to blur and feelings of detatchment from myself. I seemed to think I had lost my speech (without actually speaking anything), had progressive blurred vision and really panicked when my fingers started tingling and then all of a sudden my right arm was numb.

I was also developing a severe headache and didn't want my mum to worry about how i was feeling and what was happening to me, so I thought I would leave the house and go home. I wanted my children to put their shoes on so I attempted speaking - and said "put your sweets on!"

I went round the corner to my home jumped straight on my PC and started to type (migraine symptoms), however, to my dismay my fingers were going elsewhere on the keyboard.

Anyway, eventually things eased and I was bedridden for the night with severe headache. Eventually after about 6 months of worrying I had a brain tumour and being victim to the NHS system I managed to have a brain scan. The neurologist dealing with me who's thoughts originally were I had suffered a mini stroke diagnosed (Hemiplegic Migraine).

I sometimes get euphoric after an attack and as a result of my experience can seem to access euphoric states quite easily. Especially when NLP modelling (i get right in the flow ).

So thanks for sharing this video I may be onto something - or at least maybe can produce some real nice metaphor as a result of something that although debilitating at times may turn out to be a liberator !

Regards