# I know I asked this once before
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/i-know-i-asked-this-once-before/15572
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA
**Tags:** insulin, type-1
**Created:** [November 10, 2025, 4:43am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/i-know-i-asked-this-once-before/15572 "2025-11-10T04:43:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@mohe0001](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/mohe0001)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 4:43am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/i-know-i-asked-this-once-before/15572/1 "2025-11-10T04:43:05Z")
I kinda didn’t believe the responses, so I’m gonna ask one more time….
This is a slightly different slice of the diabetes population, so maybe I get a different answer.
This stuff NEVER happens to you guys?
> **[BBC Audio | CrowdScience | Are Near Death Experiences real?](https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct6stl)**
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> Are Near-Death Experiences visions of an afterlife?
When I crashed that car - the tunnel thing happened to me. I always wondered if this stuff is diabetes symptoms or epilepsy symptoms. Sometimes it’s definitely epilepsy - when I get strange visuals in light, but am otherwise conscious and fine. But sometimes I think its diabetes, low blood sugar brain.
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### Author:  [@CarlosLuis](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CarlosLuis)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/i-know-i-asked-this-once-before/15572/2 "2025-11-10T13:59:37Z")
> [@mohe0001](#):
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> When I crashed that car - the tunnel thing happened to me. I always wondered if this stuff is diabetes symptoms or epilepsy symptoms. Sometimes it’s definitely epilepsy - when I get strange visuals in light, but am otherwise conscious and fine. But sometimes I think its diabetes, low blood sugar brain.
I’m going to out myself here, I am an ordained Catholic deacon. I try to live by the Franciscan way of preaching the Gospel always, when necessary use words. I will never shove Jesus down your throat.
I was in hospital pastoral care years ago. One day I came into the CCU (sort of a step down from ICU). It had about 7 rooms circling the nurses station. Outside one door was an armed prison guard. That room wasn’t on my list of patients thatt wanted to see me.
The nurses loved me, what’s not to love. Easy boy, I could make a list. But truely they did. One said, “Luis, the man in room X really needs to speak to you. He is from (prison down the road) was in another hospital. He had a cardiac arrest reacting to lidocaine. He was resuscitated there and once again inn transport.”
The prison guard, said go in. This man late 20s early 30s looked up from the bed and told me his experiencce when clinically dead. He was out of his body, travelled down the long tunnel to see a figure of light. He said, “The Lord told me I am not ready, that I need to change my life!” I prayed with and for him giving him a blessing.
I don’t know why he was incarcerated, or if he truly changed his way of life. I can only hope and pray that he did. This man was healthy, I forget why he was administered the lidocaine, perhaps to stitch an injury.
I met a few other patients who told the same kiind of stories.
I shared in the death experience of my sister-in-law, Barbara at the moment of her death from leukemia. I was holding one of her hands while her daughter held her other. I knew that she was on the verge of leaving us.
Yes, I was praying, and I thought, “This is one journey you make on your own.” Suddenly there was a bright figure far off. I heard, ‘Not ALONE!” Then the words of the 23rd Psalm came to me, and Barb breathed her last.
Barbara had no type of diabetes or epilepsy.
I believe that these near death experiences are real and are not the result of some natural process during death or near death. I was privileged to experience someone’s death experience
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### Author:  [@mohe0001](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/mohe0001)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/i-know-i-asked-this-once-before/15572/3 "2025-11-10T15:22:43Z")
The experience of lower left lobe seizures I experience can be a VERY profound physical experience. I sometimes refer to them as, “seeing Jesus,” seizures because you see colorful light and your experience of space and time changes. They aren’t always positive experiences. Sometimes it’s scary, but sometimes it’s incredible.
I always assume that when someone thinks they were abducted by aliens, or sees Mother Mary in the desert - lower left lobe seizure.
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### Author:  [@CarlosLuis](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CarlosLuis)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/i-know-i-asked-this-once-before/15572/4 "2025-11-10T15:29:29Z")
> [@mohe0001](#):
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> I always assume that when someone thinks they were abducted by aliens, or sees Mother Mary in the desert - lower left lobe seizure.
I lack the ability to picture things visually in my mind. I know some do. Now my wife (rip) would get ocular migraines, a visual semicircular image of scintillating colored lights, without headache. She was annoyed when put on beta blockers because they ceased. She found them entertaining.
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### Author:  [@bostrav59](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/bostrav59)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/i-know-i-asked-this-once-before/15572/5 "2025-11-11T02:46:54Z")
> [@CarlosLuis](#):
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> I lack the ability to picture things visually in my mind. I know some do.
Sorry to digress from the main thread, but @CarlosLuis just wanted to let you know that there’s a New Yorker article (very long) about this very condition. It’s called Aphantasia, I think…
Some People Can’t See Mental
Images. The Consequences
Are Profound
Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of
human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all,
remember our lives.
By Larissa MacFarquhar
October 27, 2025
Let me know if you want the original article and I’ll send along.
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### Author:  [@CarlosLuis](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CarlosLuis)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/i-know-i-asked-this-once-before/15572/6 "2025-11-11T02:57:39Z")
> [@bostrav59](#):
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> Let me know if you want the original article and I’ll send along.
Yes I have another condition terminal curiosity, I would like to read it.
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### Author:  [@mohe0001](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/mohe0001)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/i-know-i-asked-this-once-before/15572/7 "2025-11-11T22:30:49Z")
That’s fascinating, Carlos. If you read the article, tell me all about what you think. We have opposite brains. I often don’t make quality eye contact when I’m discussing something complicated with people because I’m looking at images in my brain. It makes me look a little crazy, I think. [Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound | The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/some-people-cant-see-mental-images-the-consequences-are-profound)
A diabetic told me the other day that he hears numbers and tastes colors.
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### Author:  [@CarlosLuis](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CarlosLuis)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/i-know-i-asked-this-once-before/15572/8 "2025-11-11T23:14:11Z")
> [@mohe0001](#):
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> A diabetic told me the other day that he hears numbers and tastes colors.
Synesthesia is an interesting phenomenon where one of the 5 senses triggers another another sense along side. The first I heard of it was a woman who would see colors with sounds. She was hesitant to speak of it because the one time she did, it was assumed she was high on LSD.
The list of synesthesia is long. As far as i know it has no relation to diabetes, just the way some peoples brains are wired, not bad.
> **[TYPES OF SYNESTHESIA IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER](https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/02/types-of-synaesthesia-in-alphabetical.html)**
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> Find your type of synesthesia on this alphabetical list of types, subtypes, common manifestations and a few other phenomena.