Serendipity and friends. While I don't really feel that I have a
lot of friends (nor do I spend much time with those I do have), people seem to go out of their way to do things for me for some reason and "take care" of me when I am otherwise incapable. I've gone through extended periods of going through jobs like they were potato chips because I have episodes in which I do really weird things that I'm not even conscious of or during, and consequently it's not feasible to keep me around. I'm also frequently unemployed for long periods of time because I cannot rely upon myself to be capable of performing adequately every single day; fortunately, I'm exceptionally "resourceful" and have found various ways of being self-employed. People who know me well (friends, employers, etc.) apparently find ways to work around my "idiosyncrasies" and keep me around. And with music, oddly, it hardly seems an issue: for an album I completed a few years ago, I have absolutely
no recollection of recording a few of the basic tracks (pre-overdubs, that is)--I somehow managed to perform the necessary tasks on "automatic."
Complex partial seizures--particularly those focused in the mesial temporal lobe, where many of my own EEG's have shown activity--can sometimes manifest as fugue states (
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.co...ive-fugue-state-forgetting-ones-own-identity/). One isn't necessarily
seizing the whole time--status epilepticus--as one would likely be dead if it were to go on for hours, but some kind of weird neurological thing is going on. I don't believe that there are fully adequate explanations for fugue states at present.
Some of the other stuff can actually be sort of "fun," in a sense.