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Havoc In My Head

Chaos In My Heart

By Lightning Bolt ⚡Published 3 days ago • Updated about 18 hours ago • 3 min read
Top Story - October 2026
Abnormal Electrical Activity in Both Lobes of the Brain

The new routine is invigorating.

Physical
Mental
Practical
Purposeful

Great day!

Mind abuzz!!!

Jostling!Jittering!Jerking!Jamming!

with crowded cogitation⇊!
somanycomplexities!
inspiringexcitinginviting!

‿︵‿︵all++Connecting++!⌁

withpassionateimplications!
sending fingers flying across my keyboard! tryingtoKeepup!Catchup!Fillup gaps with
all
the besztuz
idEAz҉

҉ ҉☆_ ⌁⌁

---

---↯-༽༼༽
non

negativexistence

canceling

V O I D

......in a bitter pool of cold sweat
under a mountain of soaked blankets.

Beyond freezing,
in a panic,
desperate to escape the torture of

the enfeebling chills!

"Oh my God! OHMYGOD!!! SO COLD!!!"

"SO COLD!!!"

The mattress, my clothes, my blankets– all soaked with perspiration.

Body totally DRENCHED!

҉-҉↯҉-҉~҉-҉~¡¡¡SO COLD!!‼!~҉-҉-҉~

"COLDCOLDCOLDSOCOLDSOCOLD!"

After an eternity of unbearable
COLD,
the Man in the Next Room
comes to help,
covering the bed
with a dry comforter
while I strip off my wet
FREEZING
clothes.

Nude, I curl up in a fetal position, whimpering, shivering, shaking, quivering, quaking

as he covers me with a dry blanket

leaving me alone to fend off the

COLD C o ld

c ҉-҉↯҉-҉~z҉︵‿-҉zz
﹏﹏ ﹏﹏ ﹏﹏
This is n o t

s︵‿ l︵‿ e︵‿ e︵‿ p


༼ ༽Sleep ༽Begats༼ Dreams༼ ༽

༽༼ ༽༼ ༽ ༼ ༽‿︵‿︵﹏﹏

Awareness again
without meaning.
No memory.
No motivation.
No desire.
No﹏﹏

No feasible・。..˚~~ brainwaves ҉


The blank↠nothing↠VOID

demands surrender

Or maybe It just ﹏suggests?

It claims me either way.

Re?construction of thought
‿︵‿︵﹏﹏unwanted!!!

Can I please remain where it's vacuous?

please!

O_O༼༼༽༼༽ _____ ~?


I have to pee.

I lay feeling the need, ignoring it, not moving, not motivated, not

not not

The need is URGENT
not not no no no no no
<sigh>

Getting out of bed, stumbling, nearly falling,
unknowing, no higher awareness–
only alive to go void my bladder and then return to the

V

o

i

d

↯҉-҉~﹏ ~҉ ↯҉-҉~z҉҉

。・゚゚・ ・゚゚・。S l o w。・゚゚・ ・゚゚・。 awarenesssssssssss

A world again.
A bed.
A body.


Sooooo groggy.

Recollections of getting up multiple times to urinate,
the COLD,
knowing I wasn't there–
Was I anywhere?
Was my soul emptied?

Dreamlessness restored nothing.

Energy diminished.
Heart disengaged.

.........҉ ....⌁.sooooo tired..........҉ .

Then the merry murderous migraine
in my misaligned mind
recklessly recaps the reasons
for the missing everything...


"I'm happy to retort

that while you were in-between
⚡These👇

were the areas of your brain disjointed

{over⌁jolting⌁}

for your entertainment!!!

"The HIPPOCAMPUS!–-Fun and ____ for memory formation & retrieval!"

"WERNICKES'S AREA–-Your ___ coordinator for language comprehension!"

"The AMYGDALA-–The undisputed ___ at emotional processing!!!"

"Plus, some ___ auditory & visual association areas as an added bonus!!"

I'm too ___ to 。・゚゚・ ・゚゚・?

Is this existence?

W

h

y
?

The man from the next room comes in,
after I finally turn on my light.

"Do you know what happened?"

{Not without uncertainty}, I answer, "I had a seizure."

"Two of them."

"TWO?!?!?" ⌁

{⌁My first seizures in over a year...⌁}

Depression crashes.
Unconsciousness calls out.
isn't Sleep second cousin to

the

VOID?


Google doesn't give the experience the glory it doesn't deserves....!!

"Bilateral temporal lobe dysfunction refers to impaired function of both left and right temporal lobes, which are critical for memory, language comprehension, emotion processing, and sensory integration".

Hallelujah!

All that energized
Before↴ (being Thunderstruck)
⇊
The invigorating routine

the purposeful, physical, mental (writing!!!)
exercises....

Don't care anymore.

The convictions, concepts,
connections,

the chance to chase conjectures+conundrums+chimeras
until they coalesce with inconceivable comprehension


-Erased-

༼ ༽༼ The Ideas&Inspiration&Impetus✭⌁.✫ ༽

fragmented⇝unraveled⌁⌁҉

fading。・゚゚・ ・゚゚・。

৻‿︵‿︵ lost҉↯

⋌⋡⪱¡⨉⨉GONE⨉⨉-.-...。・゚゚・

-҉。・゚゚・・゚゚ -҉~

The End
↯҉-҉~﹏ ~҉↯҉

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I don't remember anything when I had the seizure. Two days later, I opened up my PC and this is what I saw.

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About the Creator

Lightning Bolt ⚡

Bolt ⚡ aka Bill↬bizarre bisexual bipolar alliterative epileptic sexy ♒Aquarian retired superhero. Author of humor, poetry, sci fi & horror.

✔️ A Taco Bell, A Shakespearian Robot, A Slut, Prophets, A Bed, A Dreamer, & A Historic Mismatch.


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