Epilepsy In Elementary School

Imagine as you walk out the elevators and begin walking down the halls towards the classroom. Soon a brief flash of different colors splatters your vision, as that goes away the real journey begins. You look at yourself in reassurance only to find that you look like your five-year-old self and are now wearing that outfit you always loved to wear when you were three. You keep walking to avoid anyone staring at you, being careful because the wall that’s in front of you isn’t really there. You know you’re on the fourth floor but the new walls have turned into a garden maze. This maze doesn’t fit with your surroundings, the double doors are still there and you can see them but they are behind the shrubbery that leads to a nurse’s office you are too familiar with in elementary school. It feels like thirty minutes have gone by but in reality a full minute hasn’t passed. Congratulations you now have epilepsy! This might all sound like one gigantic hallucination, but it is what I personally have to deal with.

Hippocrates, unsuccessfully, argued against the connection between epilepsy and the divine (Moselhy 2011). Just as epilepsy originates in the brain, all religious or spiritual experience affects the brain. It was once a well-used plant that was known for being grown in Washington’s, and Jefferson’s land. As mentioned in class, a historical case of the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, who, through some of his literary characters, he put his own epileptic experiences, that is currently considered as aura of generalized crisis convulsions, which ended in ecstasy or hallucinations. What we have to recognize that humans evolved with it practically since the dawn of time. It’s older than writing. Cannabis use is part of us, and it always has been. It spread from Central Asia after the last ice age and went out across the planet with man (Sides,