Favourite foods or drinks unexpectedly make them feel nauseous, panic-stricken or experience swings of mood. Ms X did - develop electrical hypersensitivity. Besides hallucinations, your body could develop a high static charge and emit electromagnetic fields which could cause a tape recorders to grind to a halt or a washing machine to flip through its programme. It is no surprise that even the caring professions fail to recognise the signs of electromagnetic hot spot activity, either refusing to believe the victim's tale or diagnosing nervous instability. When the normal electrical activity of the brain becomes destabilised by electromagnetic interference, epilepsy-like states can sometimes develop.
Victims can suffer blackouts or see hallucinations such as balls of light coming through the walls.
Even more bemusing, they can suffer lapses in consciousness after which they suddenly become aware that they are not where they thought they were and have no memory of even complex actions they might have performed. This condition is called automatic behaviour. He was puzzled to find extra cash in his wage packet at the end of the week. Again, a woman, who was struggling with a tortuous knitting pattern for a sweater her husband insisted he wanted, found that it had vanished, forcing her to abandon the project.