Posted by yxibow on October 25, 2006, at 5:44:50
In reply to Re: Complex hallucination - bimini - yxibow, posted by xbunny on October 24, 2006, at 4:51:52
> >> I'd love to be a research object. Don't qualify for one or another reason. I think someone could have a lot of fun analyzing what goes on in my head.
> >As would I...
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> dunno if this is of any interest to you but here is an analysis of a QEEG/BEAM on a patient with HPPD. http://hppdonline.com/qeeg/qeeg2.php As Im sure you know HPPD symptoms seem similar to what you are describing. Im not sure how it might help other than to demonstrate that to some degree some abnormality consistant with the symptoms can be detected in the brain of sufferers with visual perceptual disturbances using this technique.
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> Bunny
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> PS: I also experience visual perceptual disturbances similar to both you.
Yes, I have heard of HPPD (Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder), which is a latent/tardive condition experience by those who have taken certain hallucinogenic drugs up to years in the past. Ironically though, the Seroquel that I take for my condition for whatever reason would exacerbate most people with HPPD. I don't know the reason why D2 antagonists don't work for some with that condition, but unfortunately they don't (a smaller group do have results though apparently). The Valium I take might work.
The typical experiences I've heard of HPPD or even current users of LSD and the like are larger than life than the disreality that I experience -- I don't see the world in Crayola. Also, while HPPD is an annoyance, and some people may have bad LSD/whatever trips, those who are currently in a state of psychosis from such a trip are actually enjoying it (not those with HPPD particularly obviously). If I were truly psychotic, I wouldn't have the sensation of burning eyes by the end of the day because my eyes try to adjust to the somewhat heightened senses. I wouldn't find it atrocious because I would take it as a real worldview.
Fortunately I have most all of my marbles -- I'm a smart person trapped in an altered world I didn't bargain for. Hopefully a better, new worldview and decrease of discontinuity, disconnectiveness, and dysphoria will be created by continued therapy and medication and getting out into society more in general.Best wishes
-- Jay
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