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May 21, 2007 |
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Krinkels Sunburst
FOUND by Bettina Urcuioli
in Bloomington, Indiana
Spotted two summers ago on the curb outside my apartment near campus. I first thought that it described the symptoms of someone suffering from a strange neurological disease but, then again, it might have been inspired by a drug-induced trip.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Must've been a single experience, since it's written in the past tense... Maybe he/she recovered already. A case for the doctor, anyway. Scary.
Having had a couple of these myself I recognise the symptoms of a visual migraine.
At first, I thought it was describing, in detail, after-effects of an eye-injury.
It definitely seems like a "trip report" towards the last lines; as if it had been written in a rush to try and verbalize the experience as the feelings fleeted away.
Indeed the beginning might be some symptoms written down about some neurological problem, but the end is confusing... Does he/she mean that if he/she bends over, the symptoms go away? And after eating too... Sounds weird for a disease.
This actually sounds like the symptoms of someone suffering from a migraine during which vision is partially (and temporarily) lost. A tiny flashing, vibrating blind spot in the eye grows slowly until vision in that eye becomes mostly impaired. It goes away not too long after. I began suffering from these in college and didn't know what they were until I described one to my father, who told be that he suffered from them also.
It's a set list.
Sounds like a retina's detaching or something . I hope they got to the doctor !
it's a treatment for a short film----"45 minute length, 2 close-ups" wonder if it ever panned out...
Sounds to me like their eyesight is deteriorating and they wrote this to remember what to tell their doctor.
What?
We should decide that these are song lyrics and it is our duty to write the song.
Up until "couldn't count fingers on hand" - I thought it was a symptom list for the eye Dr. or neurosurgeon - on a followup visit.
Then - at that point - thought - "probably a documentation of a drug trip.
Could make it interesting reading OR a very dramatic public service message.
This is a great find because it's open to interpretation.
Definitely a migraine with visual "apparitions" (starburst, blurred vision, "krinkels" ... my wife gets this with her migraines). After it went away he/she could even bend over and it was okay (with a migraine or cluster headache, that rush of blood to the head would feel like an atomic bomb in your skull). But I can always count my fingers, even with my eyes closed ... since I know how many I'm holding up. Can't figure that part out.
At first, I thought it was a list of songs to download/burn... 45 minute length, 2 CDs... but then recognized the symptoms of a migraine... or it's the symptoms of a migraine made into song titles to burn on 2 CDs...
Yup, visual disturbance in classic migraine. Mine only last 20 minutes though (hope this one is not a detached retina or brain tumour or something nasty). Poor person -- I guess he/she is maybe mid-20s and never had one before, very scary if you don't know what's happening, like Claire in Ohio and me.
Couldn't make out the bit about 'hands', then realised: 'couldn't count fingers they looked webbed' -- in other words he/she couldn't get the two eyes to work together in a stereo image. Know that feeling too. Wonder if he/she had other symptoms, e.g. being unable to speak properly or remember words? Pins and needles in fingers/lips?
But 'after eating 1 1/2 gone' -- one and a half what? Migraine pills?
'Bent over gone' is interesting as it suggests increasing blood flow to the head makes it go away.
Migraine is a funny thing (oh, ha ha, ouch). But look what it did for Hildegarde of Bingen.
Sounded a bit like optic neuritis at first - something I've experienced with MS.
But MS doesn't go away after a meal or bending over, so maybe it was a migraine.
Bight Blue Jig Jay. I thought those were extinct.
Yep, classic migraine symptoms. Dosen't that suck? I have status migrainosus. I have a permanent migraine. I see lots of strobes and spots and zig-zags and electric ssnakess and just general stuff, all day, pretty much every day. I get this stabbing, one-sided pain that lasts for a while. I can't speak correctly, my arm goes tingly and I can't use it. Try explaining this to an employer. Sorry, can't work, body not functioning.... Folks think I am such a hypochondriac, but I'm not. See there, Mom, I really was sick!!! Can you tell I am bitter about this. Sorry, whoever wrote this, welcome to the club.
Ah yes. The last time I experienced those lovely migraine symptoms, I was attempting to sight-read some sheet music at a summer camp. Let me tell you, it's difficult to sight-read when everything in the center of your vision is just a big white void. Of course, playing fiddle in a group is also about the last thing you want to be doing when a migraine hits. Worse yet, the bagpipers were practicing right outside my window when I went back to my room to lie down.
i've never had a migrane, so very well might be, but it sure 'nough sounds like a "trip" to me.
Definately a migraine with visual symptoms. I haven't had one for awhile. I know that when I don't eat properly or sleep enough or am under a lot of stress I get them. Yay for remedies. Just remember to sleep. At least 6 hours a night. It works for me. I've had them since 7th grade (I was 12). Also, maybe you should get your eyes checked. When I started getting them, we found out that I needed glasses.
Wow Jonathan and swallowing, sorry to hear you have to live with this stuff! I get a headache (normal one) about twice a year, so I can't even imagine what you go through. Thanks Jonathan for explaining the webbed fingers thing, I couldn't figure that out!
And by the way Jonathan, way to pull Hildegarde von Bingen out of obscurity! Suddenly i'm back in undergrad.
I just wrote a song with these lyrics.
It feels all flashing, when i perfect it I'll put it up somewhere.
My sister's boyfirend accidentaly shot his left eye with a pellet gun two months ago, and we are still waiting to find out if he is going to be able to see out of it. The beginning of this note made me think of him.
I just wrote a song with lyrics like that too!
Mr. Anon, isn't that some coincidince?
I have had these exact symptoms (including the confusion that makes some of it sound nonsensical), both during ocular migraines, and following seizures.
It's some terrifying shit when you don't know what's causing it (and sometimes even when you do).
T - I like the idea of this being a set list. Do you think "In Left Eye" is a dirty sort of tribute to Lisa Lopes?
My take on this is that it's someone's reaction to a piece of theatre. I know that for my theatre class I have to go see performances and create some sort of reaction to them afterwards, visual or in writing, so I always take notes. This list seems to me like images, sentiments or actions that this person felt and saw in a piece of theatre. From the descriptions used it seems like a very experimental performance, I'd definitely go to see it.
Yes, without a doubt ocular Migraine. It's really fun when this happens when you're driving...
Definitely drug induced. Sounds pretty trippy...slightly appealing as well.
Crap. Now I have to google Hildegard of Bingen. Stupid humanities majors.
Hmmm... you're ALL correct!! It's a ~ set list ~ for a ~short~ (45 mins) film, depicting a ~migraine experience~ AND at the same time: ~showing similarities between migraine experience and certain -uh- acidic drug trips~
(Apologies to all migraine sufferers)...
I definitely thought I saw 'dosages' in here; but I couldn't tell if they were meant to induce this experience or cure it!!
(Let's just hum along with Uno & Only, and Anon...)
It's not fun, especially you start hurling your guts out. Worse yet is when it happens and you feel numb and tingly on your left side, and you wonder if sometime your going to think it's just another migraine and it's really a stroke. I wear sunglasses whenever I go outside--even on cloudy days. I don't care if it looks strange, small price to pay to get through the day with one of them friggin migraines.
...I think if this were drug induced they wouldn't have thought to write it down until after the trip...and hopefully being sober their handwriting is better...maybe this person has nerve damage or is prone to migraines..
what's this about Hildegard and migraines? source of visions, or what?
Definitely a migraine. The first one I really remember having was in third grade. I really hope that this person didn't suffer too much.
Yeah the first migraine is always the most scary, especially if you have no idea what is happening
Yup, SW in SE WY, apparently Hildegard experienced her migraines as an exalted state (happens sometimes) and thought they were visions sent from God, so wrote her mystical descriptions and painted pictures of them. I wonder if her music came to her in migraine states too?
Someone (Oliver Sacks in his book on migraine, I think) said that a number of early painters had the same thing (maybe to do with bad diet as well as migraine!) -- once you start looking for rainbow colours and ziggy-zaggy patterns in mediaeval and renaissance paintings, you start seeing a lot of angels' wings and cloudscapes in a new light. Hmm. Might account for the imagery in the Book of Revelation too.
Amazing how many of us sensitive souls posting on here turn out to be migraine sufferers! Maybe sitting up in front of the computer in the wee small hours doesn't help...
the top looks like it says 2CCC. triple C's are Coricidan Cold & Cough. more than likely he/she was trippin
Thanks, Jonathan! This is a great factoid to add to my Hildy unit at school, makes her even more fascinating and real to me. I've only had a couple migraines, and everyone and everything had halos, it was an other-worldly experience.
I immediately recognized the symptons. Ocular migraine. I have it too and it is really annoying and scary the first time. Luckily I have no headache to go with it.
This totally reminds me of an acid trip.
I remember when me and my friend used to do it and we would try to write down our experiences as we were coming down
only to find out it never made any sense lol...most of it does sound like migraine symptoms though, maybe "bight blue jig jay" is "bright blue zig zag"? the last part about not being able to count their fingers because they looked "webed" which i take to be webbed, half gone, and then completely gone maybe because they were bent over the person thought they ate them lol that happened to me once, i made my friend search this whole field behind her house looking for my thumb once (which was on my hand the whole time)we still laugh about it today... well whatever it was it sure held my attention for awhile
oh come on, you guys are so naive.
"after eating 1/2 gone - bent over - gone"
he ate a half of something, probably a half of shrooms (that stands for half ounce, guys). he was completely "gone" and bent over on the ground. how would this make any sense if he was talking about a migraine?
being someone thats tripped quite a few times i totally think this person was tripping. (it all started with a dot in the center of the eye) i know friends who have taken acid drops in their eyes to enhance the trip, one friend actually went color blind after doing this. (after eating 1 1/2 -gone) could have eaten shrooms? 1.5 grams? 1.5 1/8? ive tried to write while tripping on both and both times it was really hard to put together full sentences. it was more like this...random 1/2 sentences that made total sence at the time but after reading them once i came down made no sence at all.