Dueling Light Sabers

Two weeks after my week in the clinic, my wife and I went to an Epilepsy Advocate Take Charge Tour Event that was held near us. Epilepsy Advocates are doing a national tour providing local communities the opportunity to learn from and interact with local medical professionals and Epilepsy Advocates. These events are a great opportunity to gain epilespy support and knowledge, but the best part of the evening for my wife and me was meeting others who have epilepsy and their care givers. I can’t recommend these events more highly. To find a meeting near you check out the epilepsy advocate web site at

www.epilepsyadvocate.com/epilepsy-community/attend-event.aspx.

If there are no meetings near you, the website offers the opportunity to experience a meeting via a web cast. You know the old saying,”There more than one way to skin a cat.” If you’re a cat lover or are in any way offended by the above idiom, remember that there is always more than one way to do something.

Driving to and from the meeting, the bright-colored lights from brake lights and traffic signals started emanating these long straight colored light rays. These light rays remained in my vision after the source was gone. They reminded me of the light sabers from Star Wars. After a couple of minutes, the lights rays turned into light sabers which started dueling each other, although I never saw anyone holding the sabers. They were just dueling ach other in mid-air.

Te next morning when I woke up, the first thing I saw was a white crocheted wall hanging that my wife had mounted inside a gold frame. When I looked away from the wall hanging. I started seeing copies of the circular Microsoft processing cursor that were light yellow and bright gold. I saw these spinning figure for about 30 minutes until I ate breakfast.

After breakfast, even without bright-colored lights to trigger the images, the dueling light sabers came back until I had to work on my wife’s computer, which I had to restart to finalize an update. When her machine first boots up, the word Compaq appears diagonally across her screen. The Q is a bold block capital letter. It reminds me of the old, old screen saver which looked like PVC pipes that would grow until they filled the screen. When I looked away from my wife’s computer screen, I could still see the Q, but then it started growing by adding 90 degree joints and sections of pipes until it filled my field of vision, just like the old screen saver would do. I could see through the pipes and the openings. I saw the PVC pipes and gold spinning rings off and on all afternoon, until we had to go to a church meeting and dinner. On the drive to and from church the bright-colored lights of traffic and brake lights brought back the vision of the dueling light sabers. When a duel began it would last about 15 minutes.