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I've had migraines with aura since I was a kid. I get that jagged semi-circle visual that's shown in the video, but for me it's always accompanied by intense pain. And by the time I can see that, I'm usually in pretty deep.
It's actually how I was able to self-diagnose; when I was about 8 (my parents wouldn't take me to the doctor unless I was bleeding out, and even then it was kind of a toss-up), and I saw a picture of that same visual pattern in the entry on migraines in our encyclopedia set. Didn't make much difference at the time, as even if there were any solutions going back then, my parents wouldn't have paid for me to visit with a specialist who might be able to help. At least I know now though, approximately how long it's been going on for.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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