The NYTimes has a slide show of "migraine" art provided by Oliver Sacks from his book Migraine. They attempt to illustrate what a migraine aura looks like.
Neat. I would put one up on my wall if I didn't feel so horrible that it was the pictorial prelude to someone's intense pain.
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The first time I opened Sacks' book, I dropped it. The pictures were familiar.
It's hard for me to look at these. Even thinking about what my pre-migraine aura looks like makes me start to feel ill.
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I always wondered what other people's auras looked like. Mine are different from these--enough similarity to recognize a few, though.
Very interesting. I found some of the images familiar and others merely suggestive. I have suffered migraines, but after a particularly bad one (for me - my mother and my brother both had much worse) I have never actually had the headache. I get fairly frequently get a blind spot, then the aura, and then perhaps a mild headache unless I take ibuprofen. But the next day I have what I call a hangover. Not every aura is followed by a headache, and not every migraine is preceded by an aura. The other interesting thing is that although migraines usually decrease with age, my auras have, if anything, increased with age.