Aura Sensations

An aura is a perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine headache sufferers before the headache occurs. What are the different sensations that can be experienced?

• Visual Changes such as bright lights, zigzag lines, distortions in the size or shape of objects. A spot in the visual field in which vision is absent or deficient. Tunnel vision, slowly spreading spots, kaleidoscope effects, total temporary monocular (in one eye) blindness (in retinal migraine).
• Auditory changes such as hearing voices or sounds that do not exist or a modification of voices or sounds in the environment. Buzzing, amplitude modulation or other modulations.
• Strange smells.
• Feelings of numbness or tingling on one side of the face or body.
• Feeling separated from one's body.
• Feeling as if the limbs are moving independently from the body.
• Feeling as if one has to eat or go to the bathroom. Anxiety or fear.
• Anxiety or fear.
• Nausea.
• Weakness, unsteadiness.
• Saliva collecting in the mouth.
• Being unable to understand or comprehend spoken words during and after the aura.
• Being unable to speak properly, despite the brain grasping what the person is trying to verbalize.

All of these may be an aura, an indication that a migraine headache is coming soon.

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