> On 8 Dec 1996, Sit Ubu sit!! (Good dog) wrote:
> > Hi, I'm a student at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
> > I have always wondered whether I might have something wrong:
> > Whenever I'm in class or tired, I experience extremely brief
> > periods of discontinuity.
> <snip>
> > I recently found out that a cousin of mine, a young girl,
> > has a problem in which she experiences lapses, her eyes go blank
> > and time stops for her during that time. The only thing is that while
> > hers last about half a second, mine probably last less. She takes
> > medication.
Discontinuity may also be normal. For example if my memory is correct
23% of the people report a lost of visual field when thinking heavily
with the visual field turning BLACK. 46% report a graying of the
visual field. So you may be reporting this effect. Sorry I do not
remember my sources. Ron Blue