Semi consciousness/altered consciousness/neurological collapse

Have you experienced altered consciousness?

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hummingbird95

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I'd love to hear if anyone else experiences this. Does it have an official name? Is it described in literature?

For me the best way of describing this, is that it feels like a semi conscious state. Its a very unpleasant experience. Its like Im under water. Its extremely effortful and distressing to be in this state but all I can do is lay there and experience is.

My brain is not functioning well in this state. While Im technically awake, Im not fully aware/processing/ forming memories. I can temporarily "override" the state with massive willpower if I need to move, go to bathroom, take a sip of water if my throat is extremely dry but I fall back into this half conscious state. On bad days most of my day might be in this twilight zone, with periods of sleep sometimes too.othertimes episodes might just be 2 hours and Im fine the rest of the time.

This is usually connected to pem/crashes but moreso the longer episodes that may be weeks long. Its different to exhaustion, sleepiness and typical rest.

Anyone else in the same boat? Did anything help you?
 
Yann04 said:
Yes. Am very severe. Happens often in PEM. And honestly these days even happens somewhat outside of PEM.

nothing helps me but not pushing through and in general not triggering pem.
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I appreciate you using your limited energy to respond. Im sorry youre also experiencing this. Yes the only way I've found of preventing it, is staying very strictly within energy limits but at this level of severity its very difficult.
 
I don't think I experienced what you described but in my severer years it felt like I had been lowered down into something mentally in PEM. It was horrible and agonizing. I wish I had known back then to tell myself that it will pass and not to try to work anything out during this period, just rest and try to get through.

Maybe it is something similar because it did feel like consciousness has lowered or a state of consciousness was affected.
 
So, is it what I would have call brainfog, but worse ? Level 2 brainfog. I recognise everything around me, but it doesn’t make any sense. I’ve got just 2 mm² of brain left to realise that something’s seriously wrong, but that’s all. I feel as if I’m on psychotropic drugs. I mustn’t try to do anything that requires concentration; I’m unsure of what I’m doing and sometimes I actually fall asleep suddenly. But it’s not like drowsiness : the feeling of tiredness and loss of focus isn’t conscious. Everything’s just completely warped.
Even though I’ve got a few tips to pass time I feel endangered, it is a robbery of self.
 
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