Breaking my face.
I'm epileptic. Before I have a seizure, I get what is known as an "aura"--it's the beginning of the fit, but I'm still conscious. Some people smell weird things, some people have visions, other people act strangely. Me, I hear a sound that's a little bit like a high pitched, ongoing electrical beep.

The first time this happened, I was in bed, and I heard the noise. Slightly surprised, I got up to look around for the source of this sound--promptly began to properly have an eppy-flid-attack and fell over and practically brained myself on the bedside table.

Flash forward a few years. This high pitched noise followed by massive spaz is now--I wouldn't say frequent, but it's happened and I know what's going on. I hear the beep. I begin to look for it. I break my face on the bedside table.

Another time, it happened when I was on my laptop, lying on my bed. "Hmm," thinks I, "I'm going to have a fit. I'd better put my laptop somewhere safe, lest I break it in my violent spazzing." I vastly overestimate time between bleepy noise and loss of consciousness. Wake up on floor with my nose bleeding all over my broken laptop.

Then there was the time I flew into a panic, expecting onset of seizure--I had heard a lorry reversing.
( Queen of Cheesecake, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 23:52, 2 replies)

Aw, man
Breaking your laptop really must have added insult to injury in one of the most expensive possible ways.

Sympathy click from a perpetual clumsy endangerer of electronic goods.
(clumsyeloquence is a girl, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 23:54, closed)

"Then there was the time I flew into a panic, expecting onset of seizure--I had heard a lorry reversing." - LOL!
(twiceydrinker hmmm is it pint time?, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 8:49, closed)