Your comments about language reminded me of this: When I was younger, I had hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Whenever my blood sugar would start crashing, I cou

Your comments about language reminded me of this: When I was younger, I had hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Whenever my blood sugar would start crashing, I could actually feel my brain functions start shutting down, in a rough order from highest to lowest. First I would have trouble with concentration and attention. I would feel 'spacey'. Lots of things can cause this though, so I didn't always realize it was a blood sugar problem and that I needed to eat something. The next thing to go would be my ability to process language. Usually when someone is speaking to you in your native language, you aren't really conscious of the difference between 'hearing a sound' and that sound having meaning. Someone is talking and the meaning just forms in your head. But when my blood sugar started dropping, English would start sounding like a foreign language. It was all just sounds. The sounds had the rhythm of language, but not one I understood anymore. And then when I tried to speak, I would clearly form the intent of speaking certain words and completely different ones would come out of my mouth. Before I knew that it was hypoglycemia, I had an episode once in high school where I knew something was wrong, and I was repeating the words 'I need to visit the nurse' over and over in my head, but when I managed to speak, all I could say was 'I don't feel good' before I lost control and started sobbing. Laughing or crying uncontrollably happens right before I black out.