KATARINAS SKULL

I have so many things I would like to write now, but I can’t. It is too much. What I found was Oliver Sacks book ‘Musicophilia’ which basically changed my life today, in the past and forever.

He writes about music in different neurological diseases. Especially interesting is the connection between seizures and music. Now I am so pissed and embarrassed that

I lived my whole life without even looking into the musical aspect. Not only this, I trained to become a professional trumpet player within classical trumpet,

and no, not even then I looked into it. Though I knew from long ago that Mozart’s ‘Eine kleine nachtmusik’ works for some people with epilepsy.

Oh, well. Oliver talks about Musicogenic Epilepsy and patients having temporal lobe seizures of musical sort. Some patients remember the appearance of music during the course

of the seizure even. Fascinating and remarkable.

This past week a reaction has initiated in my lobes that is for sure. As we speak I am still keeping my eyes half open and have difficulties looking at the screen. I am forcing myself

but I have a huge headache after each time I do that or after I read. So I have been pretty occupied with EP stuff this week and have been starting to wonder what exactly is

going on up there. Again the universe directed me to the right spot because I found Oliver’s book and that made all the difference this week really.

There are so many absolutely fascinating things I want to talk about regarding this but I need to close my eyes.

Would like to just add, one of the very interesting things was one of the patients who was given the same medication as I started one year ago, and who got a profound change of appreciation in music.

An intensified functional connection between perceptual systems in the temporal lobes and parts of the limbic system indicating a sensory-limbic hyperconnection might be the basis for the emergence of the unexpected ARTISTIC, SEXUAL, MYSTICAL AND RELIGIOUS FEELINGS that someties occur in people with temporal epilepsy.

How absolutely wonderful! I didn’t know! One year ago when I started the new medication I got an inexplicable interest in photography and this passion for creating has remained. The other stuff is also true. Could that be it?!

Another patient Franco Magnani, learned how to paint after experiencing epilepsy. Moreover, as I was reading there was some classical music on TV2 which strangely bothered me like never before. Of course in the next chapter he describes patients who would be provoked to seizures by different kinds of music, including classical. So interesting it is, that is why I like Timbaland! I like the base and since I quit with classical music lots of classical music gives me stress which feels like allergy. Maybe that’s a normal thing? Sadly, but I still have my baroque ability and of course piano music. Jazz does me only good… Just like Tony Cicoria I will listen to Chopin’s ‘B Flat Minor Scherzo’ tomorrow. Now this again is interesting. I want the Grand Piano.

Anyway, this is when I found the old scans of me taken in Norway. The images were sent home to me, and they are the BIG sizes, so I had to put them up on the TV to be able to visualize them.

So here is my skull!!

I will work more on them yes.