Brain Focus problem when I awake...

[Jax]

I have this weird situation, which is very very hard to explain, I don't even know whats happening really but I will try to explain it. Its rare and has not happened in 18-24 months and most frequent episode occured in 2008 with it being 3 times in 3 months before stopping...

I awake from a sleep and feel fine at first but pretty soon I feel like I don't have my focus and I can't focus on more than 2 things or my brain feels like its losing control. I was talking to my sister yet only one side of my brain would recognise her and the other part of my brain felt like it was struggling to realise everything around me. I then went downstairs but part of my brain was still upstairs while trying to focus on a new person and the TV and it felt like my brain was shouting trying to number everyone 1,2,3, so everything left of my perception, central and right of me.

So hard to explain it felt almost as if my mind had not fully woken up from its sleep, trying to focus on every little noise but like only a part of my brain would focus on one thing and almost feeling stretched. I eventually put my headset on because I find loud music and the inability to hear anything else re focuses my entire brain too one point and then it relaxes and can percieve everything around me.

I've not explained it well but I really don't know how to put it, its so rare I stopped thinking about it but happening just now it felt like I had no control over my brain and it was running on auto pilot.

 

[KDoug]

Yeah, I guess that is pretty weird. It seems like what you're saying is that sometimes the right and left hemispheres of your brain aren't working together and that one may be functioning better than the other at that time. Is that about right? But, more importantly, have you mentioned it to your doctor?

 

[Myasishchev]

Well, I don't think we can help you, but I'll give you a million dollars if you agree to placate an angry volcano god for me.

Yeah, I guess that is pretty weird. It seems like what you're saying is that sometimes the right and left hemispheres of your brain aren't working together and that one may be functioning better than the other at that time.

That's what he literally said, but my understanding of split-brain patients is that it's not anything like that.

 

[Jadzia]

That's what he literally said, but my understanding of split-brain patients is that it's not anything like that.

experiment:
1. Put some objects on a table, eg, a banana, an apple, a food can, a pen, a hairbrush.

2. Close your eyes and get someone to hand you one of the objects into your right hand only. Identify it in your mind.

3. Give the object back to the person, who will place it back onto the table.

4. Keeping your eyes closed, use your left hand only to feel on the table and find that object.

People with split brains will often fail to complete this task correctly, because the information isn't effectively communicated from one hand (one side of the brain) to the other.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Maybe you just wake up slowly, I wouldn't want to guess about any kind of condition you might have, should there be one. I find it hard to function mood wise if I get out of the house right after waking up. I prefer an hour or so to get properly awake and focused, if I don't I feel distracted all day. I very rarely remember what I ever dream about, but the few times I do have led me to feel that the dreaming and the moods and wake up time are interrelated. If I am not fully awake before I get going, whatever was going on in the dreaming will be a mood shaper all day long and a nuisance of a distraction. Not sure if this is the same, but it is how it came off to me. I suggest time to put the day together like you do unless there is a larger problem involved.

 

[sojourner]

Um, not to alarm, but this could also be a transient ischemic attack. A minor stroke. I had a similar incident upon waking one morning. For me the sensation would fade in and out about every 10 minutes, went to the emergency room, was given aspirin (a blood thinner, helps dissolve clots)and it went away. Root cause (after a week's observation in hospital) turned out to be due to an earlier leg injury which resulted in a _very_ small clot. Dodged a bullet that day. Could have led to a full on stroke. I would recommend a doctors visit.

 

[Sector 7]

For those of us with Fibromyalgia, it is called Fibro-Fog. I became a coffee drinker for this reason. The caffeine helps me concentrate and focus.