Orthostatic Hypotension, or head rushes, are caused by a rapid drop in blood pressure and and rushing of blood to your legs from gravity when we stand up quickly after sitting or lying for extended periods.
Pulling blood quickly from our brains, causing us faintness, loss of vision, and loss of balance, and brief euphoric episodes.
These moments might be the only times we are consciously unconscious, as long as we don't go 'out' all the way.
I've recently made some observations of my head rushes.
I have lost consciousness and fallen, but most of the times of the past I find something to lean against until the dizzy spell passes.
The last 6 or so months, I have had different experiences with my head rushes.
The first one was breathtaking and made me question them.
I had stood up and lost my vision, I immediately, involuntarily stood at attention but didn't realize it until I gained my faculty of sight back.
I then stood in awe. Why did that happen? Should it not have caused the opposite?
Lately my head rushes have not brought me loss of consciousness, but still loss of vision.
What I experience however, can only be explained as a completely different form of consciousness that I only feel for the fleeting 6 second maximum.
I am not unconscious or conscious in any sense I've ever felt in my wake.
It is lucid, yet indescribable, for it feels nothing remotely connected to any form of consciousness I've ever felt.
Am I feeling the parallel consciousness of my soul from the other side when I experience this?
Are head rushes disconnections from this physical plane?
© Sebastian Grey