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Flashing Lights Still Make Me Wince
“I might have a seizure,” she said, as if predicting rain.
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8 min readJul 25, 2020
I cover my eyes at the strobe-like quality of certain movie scenes, each time recalling my first EEG — the tangled headgear, the mingling aromas of alcohol, glue and solvents, the sweet syrupy sedative, a brief sleep and, upon…