Elizondo's Orbs

[Giddierone]

Really interesting, thanks.

You can also get vivid experiential hallucinations—perceptions that feel like real memories or emotionally charged visions.

I've experienced this often but had never thought that much about its broader context / cause.

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

This is pretty tentative. Not solid at all, but something to think about...

Could Elizondo have TPE himself? Are the orbs visual hallucinations blended with experiential hallucinations?

He claims that other people see them, but those claims may be... greatly exaggerated.


Or did he just pick up these stories from folklore and... exaggerate?

 

[John J.]

Could Elizondo have TPE himself?

Though there is a temperoparietal junction (TPJ), I think- maybe I'm out of date on this- the convention is that seizures with an identified discrete origin are described as being from the specific lobe involved, so epilepsy originating from an area within the TPJ would either be temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe_epilepsy or parietal lobe epilepsy.
Are there any good papers on temperoparietal epilepsy as a distinct condition?

Not sure it's useful to discuss theoretical neurological origins of a specific person's behaviour without very strong evidence, which we do not have in this case.

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

TPE was a stutter. Meant TLE.

I did the same thing at the end of post #120

I've talked about my stutter before. It's not limited to spoken speech. I can do the same thing when I'm writing.

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/stuttering-and-using-the-wrong-word.13688/#post-324854