Wow! We really were! Your post about Saks was up within only 20 mins of this. We are both curious minds.

Thanks for mentioning the Oliver Saks book on migraines. I wasn't aware of that. I do own and have read his book "Hallucinations". It's interesting. It actually focuses more on non-psychotic hallucinations, than psychotic, for anyone interested.

My interest in these similarities stems from having a bipolar disorder diagnosis, but also having received dxs of migraines, simple partial seizures (temporal lobe epilepsy), migraines (more typical and silent types), and periods of depersonalization/derealization. As I wrote in Wild Coyote's thread, I also had a very disturbing period of musical hallucinations, whose source has been debated. I have never had fibromyalgia, but have met a large number of people with both that and bipolar disorder.