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> Migraine can even drive full-blown visual hallucinations similar to the ‘reflections of the living light’ painted by Hildegard von Bingen, a twelfth-century a
by wozer 2y ago
> Migraine can even drive full-blown visual hallucinations similar to the ‘reflections of the living light’ painted by Hildegard von Bingen, a twelfth-century abbess who was thought to have experienced a condition that is now called migraine with aura.
I don't think the aura effects are usually considered hallucinations?
I get mild migraines sometimes, with hardly noticeable headache, but with aura. In a way, it's pretty cool. You can directly perceive the abnormal brain activity and how it develops in real time. (I get the classic zigzag lines wandering across the field of vision.)
- readyplayernull 2y agoAI hype terminology? Should be a visual effect.
- graypegg 2y agoHallucination is a medical term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination The usage in relation to AI is a reference to the medical term, not the other way around.
- bootloop 2y agoI also have migraine with aura. There are visual effects but also when I am looking into the mirror I can't see half of my face and give this is a wrong perception of reality you might consider it a hallucination?
- constantlm 2y agoWhen I have aura it's always morbidly fascinating to me how a part of my vision is not black, but it's just "missing"
- orthecreedence 2y agoSame, the fortification aura is really kind of amazing, putting aside the debilitating pain that's quickly approaching. It's really weird to have a part of your vision just "not there" as opposed to being black. It's even stranger when looking at a face or some recognizable object, and half of it disappears into nothingness while the other half still exists. Fun to play with.
- digitalsushi 2y agothe first time i had this, everyone's nose was missing. for ten seconds it was funny and then i hid in a bathroom stall at work, and texted my wife goodbye. i was positive i was about to die. its really stressful to have bodies.
- soupfordummies 2y agomy mom used to get these and said it was like "seeing dots" anecdotally of course too, but is it more common for women? I've only ever known 3-4 people that got these kinds of migraines and they were all women.
- isoprophlex 2y agoI sometimes but not always get an aura before a migraine. Which was pretty fun the first time i got an aura, as i was working in a chemistry lab. I described what was happening (loss of vision, flashes of light, rapidly oscillating black and white patterns) to this greybeard lab technician and within 5 minutes the entire lab was evacuated, out of fear of some weird chemical poisoning us all.
- bootloop 2y agoYes, its much more common for women, its rare for men.
- doubled112 2y agoI happen to be a man who gets migraines with aura, but I do think they’re more common in women. They started when I was 14. I get visual issues like tunnel vision and sparklies, but I also get numbness in my face and extremities, confuse my words (right parts of speech, not what I intend to say), and often vomit. Needless to say, the first one scared the crap out of my mother and I. I may or may not have a headache when this happens. Neat, eh? I was talking to a guy who suffered from seizures in college, and apparently his “aura” is very similar, and I've always wondered if there was some connection since my father also suffers from epilepsy.
- tbirdny 2y agoMigraines and epilepsy have a lot in common, including some symptoms and triggers. Drugs and things that lower seizure threshold also tend to cause migraines. Some epilepsy drugs also act as migraine prophylactics.
- bpye 2y ago> I get visual issues like tunnel vision and sparklies, but I also get numbness in my face and extremities, confuse my words (right parts of speech, not what I intend to say), and often vomit. I’ve experienced migraines for years, but last year had my first instance that messed with speech. It certainly unsettled the friend I was with at the time.