This type of temporal lobe seizure usually lasts 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Sometimes temporal lobe seizures impair your ability to respond to others. A rising sensation in the belly similar to being on a roller coaster.A feeling that what's happening has happened before, known as deja vu.The aura is the first part of a focal seizure before a loss of consciousness. And not everyone who has auras remembers them. Not everyone who has temporal lobe seizures has auras. Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (RNICU)Īn unusual sensation known as an aura may happen before a temporal lobe seizure.Hospitalists & Internal Medicine Physicians.But the whole experience while very tiring was both intense and beautiful. Just recently i had quite bad flu and I had a fever dream that lasted a very intense 2 and a half days the only times i knew for certain if I was asleep or awake was when my alarm went off to remind me to take my meds. Yes the new drugs have now kept me seizure free for over 3 years now and i just like to think of the vivid, trippy dreams as an added extra just to make up for all the years of worry and weirdness that have gone before. Thank you for your good wishes and keep on dreaming!!! Plus I sleep very well, it's not like they disrupt me at all it's just great fun. I work nights so I wonder if the fact that I only sleep during the day has any impact at all. My dreams just burst with colour and noise but also like you I have control over it all and seem to be able to make up the rules the same way as you.

I think its the clobazam tied in with epilim and keppra which does it. I used to get them on carbamazepine (which i know everyone thinks is the same as tegretol, but if you read other threads that ain't the case) but those dreams had more of a nightmare element. No tegretol anymore which funnily enough to tie it with some of your dreams just left me feeling like a zombie rather than dreaming about them. I like to think that it's not the meds - those of us who have such vivid dreams just have highly 'overactive' brains. I've read some about it and vivid dreams with epilepsy is not uncommon. I told my husband the other day, 'I think my dreams are trying to kill me.' Jokingly, of course. I was beginning to think that maybe the dreams were just an aspect of the epilepsy or maybe the dreams were so vivid that they actually trigged seizure activity in the brain. It's wild what the mind can come up with. I've changed meds and I'm still having them. For the last couple of years, I've been taking Tegretol (just switched to Trileptal) and I have had the longest, most detailed, colorful freaky dreams. I have had nocturnal seizures for about four years now. Often it's nice to have vivid dreams, but it can often get annoying as you are never quite asleep when you have them. I've recently been put on a higher dose of lamotrigine combined with clobazam, so I would say that those have something to do with it, but I honestly don't know. Often when I finally get out of the dream I'll think about it all day, as it's often situated around real people, just in very strange circumstances but saying that, I had one where I was on a flying pirate ship in space, and somehow linked to the Matrix (i know. Often when I wake up I'll be awake but not be able to move or get out of this dream, and they're generally not scary at all, and very vivid. I've been having the same thing for a while now.

Nocturnal epilepsy and memory loss