This article talks about a study conducted by the Department of Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2003 that concluded that certain epileptic patients experienced pleasure during seizures, some wished to continue experiencing seizures, and some could control when seizures occurred.  Said one patient: 
"It is like an emotional wave striking me again and again.  I feel compelled to obey a sort of phenomenon.  These sensations are outside the spectrum of what I ever have experienced outside a seizure."
The patient also said he experiences "a delicious taste, and he swallows repeatedly.  He enjoys the sensations and is absorbed in them in a way that he can barely hear when spoken to."  How weird is that?  I thought seizures were a negative thing. 

Also noteworthy is this quote from Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky about his epilepsy: 
"For several moments, I would experience such joy as would be inconceivable in ordinary life -- such joy that no one else could have any notion of.  I would feel the most complete harmony in myself and in the whole world and this feeling was so strong and sweet that for a few seconds of such bliss I would give ten or more years of my life, even my whole life perhaps."
However, his condition after a seizure matches what I've heard: 
"As a result of his fits he would sometimes bruise himself in falling, and his muscles would hurt him from his convulsions ... But the most important thing was that he lost his memory and for two or three days he would feel utterly broken.  His mental condition was also grievous: he could scarcely overcome his anguish and hypersensitivity."
(via Boing Boing) #health