A funny thing happened to me on the way to the Forum. As the say.
The current Mrs Durer and I were watching a film yesterday evening. At one point we had to press the pause button (to attend to something the cat had done on the lounge carpet (again)). When She’d put the 1001 Carpet Cleaner away I spotted a woman in the bottom right hand side of the TV screen doing Sign Language.
I turned to Her Ladyship and said “How long has that been there”. The Mistress of the House said “Since the beginning, stupid”.
I’d spent at least 15 minutes watching a film, completely oblivious to a superimposed figure making hand shapes. “That’s weird,” I thought.
Feel free to share your observations, shared experiences or opinions on this phenomenon. Or not.
Where do I start? How about the flickering light on my left-hand side experienced in the morning. The bedside lamp is on the left but it only flickers when I’m looking straight ahead. That seemed to go away about three months ago. Then there’s the feeling of wetness. Sometimes everything can feel wet.
There is also the tangent. I ride many tangents each day. I slip along on my chair to do one thing and start something else. Then when I remember what I was supposed to be doing I stop and move to the desired place where I will start something completely different.
As for the cat. I awoke the other night to the sound of batting paws and claws with the desperate squeaking of a moribund mouse. The next morning, I spent a good hour looking for the dishevelled corpse of the hapless rodent and found nothing. It was only when I noticed that I had put his squeaking mouse toy on the end of a fishing rod over the scratching post.
Thanks for your reply. I’d got used to the flickering which I put down to nystygmus. Unusual sensations like soft things having the apparent texture of sanding paper. Wet and cold, warm and dry getting mixed up. Got that.
Yup - standing in the study asking myself, “Why did I come in here”. I’ve been doing that at all my life! All cats are weird; you’re just fitting in.
But not seeing something dead in front of me? It suggests to me something wrong in a part of the brain that deals with vision or perception or movement and I’m ignoring it.
My last MRI in 2015 didn’t show anything in the brain.
Hi Anthony and Steve I am with you both. I know I have plaques in my brain that are messing it up big time! ! I can’t remember what I am talking about mid sentence!! Also. When I am looking for something I can’t see it when I am looking g directly at it! I will then go and look somewhere. Return to the first place and there it is. In plain sight! I blame the Borrowers otherwise I would get upset. Ight both Anne x
I am forever seeing something moving in periphery vision and think it’s a mouse! Luckily now Dickie the Cat is here I’m not that bothered!
I am forever starting things and then get distracted and start something else. Drives me nuts.
Anyone else get phantom smells? Mine are usually burning plastic or black pepper. Very odd! Don’t know how many times I’ve been up in the night looking for a fire!
I had a visit from a friend couple of weeks ago who’s a doctor…it’s VERY hard to stop yourself asking medical questions believe me…but I did tell her how odd it is that I can never feel when my bladder is full but all the same I will wake up in the night when it is full. She said it’s two different parts of the brain involved. One in feeling it is full (which is obviously not working) and one in knowing it is full. Weird eh?
All you lovely people out there. It’s fascinating to read all about your phantom smells, cats and Borrowers but it’s not getting me anywhere.
So I’ve decided to go to the top on this one and written to my neurologist asking her for an explanation. With a bit of luck and a following breeze I should get a reply around next March. (I’ve got a theory that they only emerge around the solstices.)
Signing off now, as the ‘Little People’ are making rude signs at me. I find slug pellets usually sorts them out.
I’ve got nystagmus so I often think I’ve seen something that’s not there… ok, it is something I saw but not there, it’s over there! My eye’s will be jiggling all over the place as I try to look at one thing, peripheral vision is the worst, if someone walks past for example, concentration just goes. I now understand that one eye wobbles side to side and the other up & down. Probably why I like using a computer as my field of vision doesn’t get so messed up
At least I know the reasons for it tho and when I’m being sensible, the eye-patch helps me concentrate.
As for the other stuff, that seems to change days to day but I get freaked out putting on body lotion for example. Sometimes I don’t recognise my own body, I think that’s more to do with one hand being a bit numb. Things are just weird now!
I’ve always been more of a 4B person…when sketching. Automatic pencil when not, which is normally HB. At school I used to chew/suck them. Not too bad to start on normal pencils, but the automatics went rusty…
I’ve always been more of a 4B person…when sketching. Automatic pencil when not, which is normally HB. At school I used to chew/suck them. Not too bad to start on normal pencils, but the automatics went rusty…