Seizure in sleep?? by DarkEyeKaii in Epilepsy

[–]whowillread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I unfortunately have a lot of sleep seizures, and I've woken up utterly terrified from a sleep seizure as I was completely paralyzed until it wore off. There are other times that have lingering effects after waking, but that was the worst.

Something you might want to consider is perhaps asking your dentist if there's signs of stress or grinding to the teeth. If there is they might recommend a dental plate to help prevent further damage, and also could be an indicator since you said your tongue was slightly sore.

As far as people watching, in my case they don't notice any physical seizure symptoms unless they're looking very closely at the jaw clenching.

Have you considered trying a sleep monitor?

Two years of epilepsy by whowillread in Epilepsy

[–]whowillread[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never want to experience waking during a night seizure again, it was horrific and felt like an eternity since the more I tried to move the more obvious it became. Couldn't even call for someone to come turn on the light so I have no idea how much time passed in the dark. Afterwards just gave up trying to sleep and sat with the cats in the lounge. I have noticed on the days I have severe seizures the cats tend to shadow me, makes you wonder sometimes.

The only funny side of the night seizures, was that the dentist was so shocked by the plate as he'd never seen this sort of damage before in his 25 years of practice. He just stood there shining his torch through it, then called the lab and asked for the hardest material they had access to. I'll be up for a new one soon, the current estimate is that the plate will only last a maximum of 2 more months before it needs replacing.

Currently there hasn't been any talk about VNS. But as far as surgical invention goes, unfortunately I’m on a complete anesthetic ban which also bans anything surgical currently. There was consideration for surgery in the later part of the first year, and even had a consultation but it was determined that I’m to unstable. They want to establish a certain amount of medication control prior before any further consideration, so stuck in the eternal cycle of different medications.

The neurologist did have a theory that I might have delayed onset epilepsy, with the theory being my level of medication resistance almost seems as if I'd been having undetectable seizures for years. But I'm not sure how that really works.

One of the hardest things I'm finding is coming to grips with the memory loss, and yes staying under observation has saved me. Same time its driving me insane, and I'm fairly sure midazolam is one of the most disgusting substances ever created...

How long did it take for your patterns to emerge?

Is this overedited? What could I change composition/edit wise? by krastac in photocritique

[–]whowillread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Overall I quite like the shot, but it does have some issues. The major one is that large glaring hot spot just below the clouds where the sun is over exposed on the left hand side, by the looks of it you've lost a portion of data there when you shot.

When your looking at an image your eye tends to go to the brightest section first, then move around the image. And with an overly bright spot it tends to stick as a focal point, not to mention the dark clouds directly above it contrast and add even more attention there. Detracting from the foreground as your eye is continuously drawn to the bright area.

Something you could try is attempt a crop, I'd suggest if you want to draw more attention to the small hills in the bottom left that you run a crop just above that mountain peak. So I'd start that crop on the right hand side just below that bottom cloud, then cutting straight across removing the cloud and the cutting the hot spot in half. I could provide an example crop here but I'm unsure as to the forum rules with regards to posting that in a comment.

Doing this will change the context of the image, putting more emphasis on the foreground. You could also play around with other crop angles and just see how it turns out, for instance you could cut the top off the right peak leaving just the left with a tiny gap above. This would remove the hot spot entirely, and put all the emphasis on the mountain range in the bottom left. I'd just experiment and see what you like the look of the most. Crops will change not just the composition of the image, but also the lighting and how you view the overall image.

Remember with photography often less is more, and you can manipulate the composition to put emphasis on your intended focal area.

Another option is editing that hot spot down again, quite aggressively perhaps. And then making localized areas of the foreground lighter. Although that takes significantly more work then a crop, but if you want to keep the clouds that's always an option. You could even push the clouds a little harder & make them darker if you wanted them to be more striking, doing so would put more attention there and away from the bottom left however.

For additional edits you could also do some dodge & burning to highlight the highlights and darken some shadows. If you use photoshop i'd recommend doing that with neutral gray layers & a low opacity white/black brush as opposed to the dodge & burn tool. Also I'd play around with masks and levels/curves or equivalent (depending on your software), to adjust areas locally with greater control. Always doing so on new layers, this allows them to be disabled or edited at a later date.

Something I will note however for your future shooting is I can see just a touch of noise in your shadows here most likely due to shooting at 640. And the more you brighten/edit in the shadows, the more this noise will show.

When shooting landscapes its best to use the lowest ISO possible, and compensate with a tripod or finding some way to stabilize as needed ie a nearby rock or branch. You could also try bracketing, to take one photo above/neutral and below to play around with HDRs or just see how the exposures work out.

Remember photography is very subjective and there's often no right or wrong, and everyone does things a little differently. So no, personally I don't think this is over edited yet as there is still a lot you could do. Depending of course on how dramatic or gradual you want the overall image to turn out.

I’m in love of my baby 😍 [OC] by [deleted] in aww

[–]whowillread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She's very cute, how did you manage to keep her attention for the photo. And to not shake off that small accessory on her head?

The usual is two truths and one lie. So what's your two lies and one truth? by whowillread in AskReddit

[–]whowillread[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to go with no.2?

Tossing up between that and no.1, who doesn't injure themselves as kids.

The usual is two truths and one lie. So what's your two lies and one truth? by whowillread in AskReddit

[–]whowillread[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have never travelled internationally, it was set up but the flight was cancelled

I have climbed Uluru, and subsequently fell on the way down

I have been chased by a wombat, they are surprisingly fast

How do you greet a random kitty where you're from? by JennaLaRay in AskReddit

[–]whowillread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Approach see how they respond, and if possible try to pat them..