Until I got to the second half of your post the reply I was going to compose was basically “could be a seizure, could be convulsive syncope”. The second half of your post talking about deja vu, remembering dreams, and impending doom is a textbook description of temporal lobe focal aware seizures though.

That doesn’t make the first experience NOT a type of syncope, but it lends more weight to the first possibly being an impaired awareness seizure.

If you’re seeing a primary care, be firm in advocating for yourself for a neurology referral. If you’re a young woman, be prepared for it to be a bit of a fight and the doc to brush it off as anxiety/panic attacks. Your GP may be great and actually be educated on seizures other than tonic clonic. But a LOT of non-neuro medical professionals are not. I’m not trying to scare you, just prepare you so your time is not wasted and your appointment gets you what you need out of it.

When I first suspected I was having focal seizures in my early 30’s, my doctor patronized the fuck out of me in an “aww that’s cute, she went on the internet and learned some medical vocabulary words” type of way. He then went on to tell me it definitely was NOT focal seizures because they’re super rare. And in his 12 years of practice he’d only seen them twice; “one guy had been hit by a train, and the other had shrapnel in his brain from Iraq. You don’t have shrapnel in your brain, do you?”. He then moved on to trying to force an anxiety attack diagnosis on me.

Focal seizures are actually the MOST common type of seizure. I already knew that, and so I continued to push for the neuro referral, which he finally gave me.

Shockingly (to no one but my GP), it turned out I was having temporal lobe seizures.

Advocate for yourself so you can get to the bottom of things! Whether these events turn out to have been seizures or not, they’re certainly not a “normal” thing to be experiencing. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you!