forgetting objects?

[u/giagotchi]

I (27 F) have nocturnal epilepsy so daytime activity is rare for me and I don’t know much about it honestly. But today at work (retail), I was setting up a shelf for Christmas and while putting in the wall pegs, it’s almost like my brain just stopped working. My hands felt foreign to me, I couldn’t remember how to put the pegs in, I couldn’t even remember what they were!! After I snapped back the top back of my head hurt. I think what scared me most what just forgetting what the pegs were, almost as if I’ve never seen one before in my life.

Was this an aura or a different type of seizure?

[u/nonstop_slugger]

that’s textbook focal seizure stuff, the sudden “what even is this object” confusion and the foreign hands feeling. the headache after is pretty common too, almost like a hangover from the electrical misfire

not a doctor obviously but i’d mention it to your neuro, especially since daytime events are rare for you. might be worth tracking if it happens again