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I only have seizures when waking from sleep and they are very rare (about once a year). Aura's however, are more frequent. A typical Aura for me consists of visual hallucinations of criss cross, grid or checker patters. For example on one occasion I woke to find the walls of my room covered in grid patterns of sea shells. Another time the floor was checkered with Red Vines (Licorice). The daytime aura's that I have experienced have included smelling sulfer, burning rubber or having a feeling that I am about to get hit by a very fast moving bus. Those have never resulted in a seizure.

-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Propheus (talk • contribs) 05:29, 9 November 2007 (UTC) For me, this takes the form of moving patches of blind spots in my vision. They have a sort of silver shine to them. The blind spots make it difficult to read (or to look at things directly), but depending on where the spot is, I can look at things using peripheral vision. They started when I was in 7th grade, and I was told they were optical migraines. They last about 30-60 minutes.

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For me the aura is preceded by a barely noticeable loss of some portions of my vision. Example if I look at someone’s face it seems like they’re missing an eye or some other part of the face, but you can’t really tell what is happening because when you center your vision on that area that is missing everything is normal there. This is somewhat similar to the blind spot in your peripheral vision.

The actual aura will usually come in the last 15 minutes before the headache. This starts to appear right across the center of my vision. The closest I can describe its pulsating appearance is by wetting a cloth and wiping a half-moon shape across a television screen. Then move your head slowly back and forth… I wouldn’t’ recommend doing that you might get shocked though --Trode 21:27, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

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I have epilepsy, and I have three different auras I get... two almost always come together and the other is rare and much more intense. The first two that come together are the feeling of being separated from the body, and smelling something thats not there. I usually smell something burning with a hint of wax, though I have sometimes smelled other things. This usually occurs when I'm laying in bed at night or in the morning when I first wake up. These happen fairly often and are not usually followed by a seizure- most likely because of the medication I take. The other one,that I've only experienced a few times, is the anxiety and fear. It happens generally when I'm feeling calm or happy and suddenly I have a huge rush of adrenaline and my heart pounds like crazy and it really is like complete terror. This one is especially horrible because its a feeling of terror when I know there's nothing that I'm scared about. I try to calm myself, but it doesn't work. Again, this often happens before I fall asleep or right when I wake up.

[edit] Plural?

Is it appropriate to indicate in this article that the plural of aura can be auras or aurae? r3 00:44, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I get these auras or aurae or whatever sometimes, although I've never had a full-blown migraine. It starts as a small round-ish shape that looks like when you've stared at a light for too long, then it begins to "shimmer" is the only way I can describe it. It slowly gets larger, becoming normal again in the middle with this shimmering "ring" slowly expanding until it eventually leaves my field of vision, and that is that. Come to think of it, I haven't had one of these in years.

[edit] i think its an aura

Sometimes, although not exclusive to the onset of a migraine, I have a strange set of symptoms. Typicaly, I find it occurrs immediatly after standing up after sitting for a significant amount of time, I begin to 'hear' a soft heartbeat in my ears, should I remain standing the progresses in 15-30 seconds to a louder pulsation and a pressurized feeling in my head. Should I continue to stand/walk this peaks with the appearance of a tiny black flickering spot in my right visual field (not exclusive to an eye independently, but from both in the same area). This spot grows slowly as the pressure and pulsations subside. The spot becomes more of a blob and I can only describe it as having a grey and translucent shimmering/flickering quality, like 'TV snow' on a channel you dont get. This is temporary but is completely visually obstructive throughout the duration. The 'blob' slowly creeps out of sight, near the end of the visual disturbance I become (very mildly) receptivly aphasic to words in print...I can clearly identify the letters, but am unable to assemble the word, however familiar. At times a migraine follows within 10-20 minutes however, for the first 3 years it was NOT directly related to migraine/headache pain and is not now consistanly.

When I have an aura, I first start to get a weird feeling in my stomach then the feeling in my stomach starts to shake for about 15-30seconds then it's over. I have these auras every single day and can also have them without getting an epileptic attack after it. If i was to count I probably have auras about 25 times a day. I started having epilepsy at the age of eight and had brain surgery when I was seventeen. After my brain surgery I had about two or three seizures but gradually went away. I still remain to have auras. So I'm still on medication. It's very disturbing! I know that in Jesus name God is going to heal me from this!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Akuabawaah87 (talk • contribs) 03:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)