Electrical storms in our brains make things more random

Continuing from where we left off yesterday, my patient’s UFO experience could have another cause. Option 2: he was experiencing a mild form of temporal lobe epilepsy where religious and other experiences are often felt with such an intensity of emotions (read faith) that the experience is accepted as a belief and the truth. Something similar may happen with those reporting alien abductions except that the emotion primarily experienced is one of fear rather than pleasure and ecstasy. This is because the fear pathways within the brain are firstly quite close to the pleasure pathways and in case of epilepsy aberrant and abnormal connections between different regions of the brain is common, so that the epilepsy triggers the fear pathway