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<blockquote data-quote="roo.be" data-source="post: 366051" data-attributes="member: 23290"><p>When I did my photography degree many years ago, one of my final pieces was based on visual experiences when having a hypo. Many diabetics can describe quite vividly a change in how they see things at a particular point in the low. The point is different for each person but is usually where consciousness is about to Be lost. Mine is below 2 and is best described as watching a piece of video with random frames removed. At the point where the frame is missing there is a brief feeling of having no control and a minor adrenalin surge occurs giving a sense or euphoria. All this in a fraction of a second. The exact same feeling is recreated, bizarrely, when I drive down a stretch of road lined with trees in the autumn and the sun is low in the sky behind them. The flickering light is the exact same sensation.</p><p></p><p>My hypos are similar to most, sweaty, shaky, not really understanding what is going on bit my night-time hypos are better to describe. They have always been the same for 40 years too. It's a dream of being on a roller coaster which is getting faster and faster and the sense that it is becoming out of control. At the point at which it feels the roller coaster can't get any faster and would come off the rails I always wake up, sometimes screaming uncontrollably, but always with the sensation of everything being crystal clear at that precise moment in time and with a massive adrenalin rush and heart pounding. This is followed by passing out.</p><p></p><p>It's always amazed me that from as young as 5 this has always been the same when at that young age I had never been on a roller coaster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roo.be, post: 366051, member: 23290"] When I did my photography degree many years ago, one of my final pieces was based on visual experiences when having a hypo. Many diabetics can describe quite vividly a change in how they see things at a particular point in the low. The point is different for each person but is usually where consciousness is about to Be lost. Mine is below 2 and is best described as watching a piece of video with random frames removed. At the point where the frame is missing there is a brief feeling of having no control and a minor adrenalin surge occurs giving a sense or euphoria. All this in a fraction of a second. The exact same feeling is recreated, bizarrely, when I drive down a stretch of road lined with trees in the autumn and the sun is low in the sky behind them. The flickering light is the exact same sensation. My hypos are similar to most, sweaty, shaky, not really understanding what is going on bit my night-time hypos are better to describe. They have always been the same for 40 years too. It's a dream of being on a roller coaster which is getting faster and faster and the sense that it is becoming out of control. At the point at which it feels the roller coaster can't get any faster and would come off the rails I always wake up, sometimes screaming uncontrollably, but always with the sensation of everything being crystal clear at that precise moment in time and with a massive adrenalin rush and heart pounding. This is followed by passing out. It's always amazed me that from as young as 5 this has always been the same when at that young age I had never been on a roller coaster. [/QUOTE]
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