Could this be anxiety?

[handson729]

On and off for many years I get these episodes (I'm having one right now!) where I suddenly starting feeling like I'm reliving dreams I've had. They are intrusive and won't go away.  I feel like I am dreaming while I'm awake. I can feel my head fogging up slowly like a rising water level.  Then after a while I lose my orientation and have to keep reminding myself what day it is.  I also can't lay down any new memories, everything seems to slip out of my head as soon as it comes in.  All this going on at once is really disturbing!  I'm sensitive to certain foods so I've wondered if this could be a brain allergy?  Or is is anxiety?  Sometimes it goes away when I sleep for a while.  The longest it lasted was all day and then the next morning it was mostly gone.  Does anyone else have this?

[handson729]

Thanks for your reply.  Yes, I had a thorough ENT and neurological work up including EEG and ambulatory EEG, but negative.  The ENT called it "atypical migraine" and the neurologist thought it might be psychic in origin which I guess means emotional/energy-based.  So I guess anxiety could fit into that.  Let me say that I am an intuitive healer by profession so I use my right brain hemisphere a lot and also do a lot of meditating.  I have often wondered if these attacks could be stress induced because they seem to follow a period of intense emotional stress.  I wouldn't go on about it except that when I have an attack, I pretty much can't function.  During the worst one, I couldn't remember my children's birthdates, I couldn't remember names, addresses, phone numbers, what the date was, couldn't lay down any new memories at all.  After several hours it literally feels like a fog clearing, and I slowly start to get my thinking back.  Thanks for listening!

[specialmom]

Hi there and welcome to med help.  Yes, you very well could be describing symptoms of anxiety.  The dream like feeling is something I personally relate to.  Have you talked to your doctor at all about this?  Is it interfering with daily activity in any way?