Author:  Oliver Sacks
Book:    Migraine
Viewed: 51 - Published at: 7 years ago

You keep pressing me," he said, "to say that the attacks start with this symptom or that symptom, this phenomenon or that phenomenon, but this is not the way I experience them. It doesn't start with one symptom, it starts as a whole. You feel the whole thing, quite tiny at first, right from the start.… It's like glimpsing a point, a familiar point, on the horizon, and gradually getting nearer, seeing it get larger and larger; or glimpsing your destination from far off, in a plane, having it get clearer and clearer as you descend through the clouds." "The migraine looms," he added, "but it's just a change of scale-everything is already there from the start." This business of "looming," of huge changes of

( Oliver Sacks )
[ Migraine ]
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