u/eternalpantry

I,19 year old male, have recently been having recurring episodes that I can’t quite place even after doing a bit of research. For context, The episodes started around a year ago and have happened every month since then at roughly the same time each month usually occurring during night. The episodes start with me seeing dark figures in my peripheral about every minute or so with an intense sense of fear whenever I see one, along with this I get a rush of emotion: sad, happy, empathetic and so on. This goes on for about an hour until suddenly I end up on the floor; my memory is always fuzzy on how I get to the floor, but when I’m there I start laughing uncontrollably for no reason at all, and I start kicking my legs involuntarily back and forth almost like I’m riding a bike. Lights seem brighter like my vision is engulfed in light, and sometimes I see small black dots all over. My thoughts are all jumbled and confused and I find my self thinking things like “what’s happening to me” and “why am I laughing I want this to stop”. This entire part lasts for around 1-2 minutes until I eventually am able to stand up. Afterwards my mind goes foggy with my legs aching and my body tired/fatigued; I would best describe this part as feeling tipsy as I’m still slightly giggly as well. Eventually I fall asleep and when I wake up all of the symptoms are gone. My memory of the entire episode is usually very bad with me only remembering the things that I described even though I feel like there was much more happening. I have a psychiatrist and he is quite stumped as well since the whole scenario is very bizarre; he is leaning towards migraines but I have never felt pain in my head or had a visual migraine like aura. I have other pre existing mental health issues like depression, OCD, and anxiety but none of those explain what is happening here. If you have any idea what this could be then please let me know since every time it gets slightly worse and I’m worried it could evolve into something critical🙏