My collge roomy had Absence seizures. She was on medication for them. She was the first to notice my shifting. I did not even have a clue I was DID inspite of tons of odd things like ending up in different places with zero memory of going there or where I was. I had to ask someone which state I was in!

She noticed that there were times I would just stop mid thought and pick up where I left off without knowing I was "gone" at all. She thought I was having the type of seizures she was having and talked me into seeing her nurologist who was an expert in seizures.

While they had me in the testing, It happened. He reviewed the scans and told me he had ne er seen anything like it and had no clue what was going on with my brain. But it was NOT a seizure.

He showed me the waves and stuff but I didn't understand much of what he was saying. What I did understand was my brain was going from being fully awake right into the wave pattern for being in the deepest stage of sleep. Then it woke up to the same level it was at before the event. It did not go through the other stages that are supposed to lead up to that deep state of sleep or back again.

The best he could do was tell me my brain was "rebooting" for some reason.

Of course that testing was done in 1995... so I am sure they know far more now.

When I started seeing my T, I told him about this. He said that is common for DID. So now I don't worry about it. I just have to explain it sometimes to people who may not know me.