A closer look
It turns out that a sudden, overwhelming urge to write terrible poetry and talk to God might just be the result of a misfiring temporal lobe. Gastaut-Geschwind syndrome is a bizarre behavioral profile intrinsically linked to chronic epilepsy. Following subtle brain seizures, sufferers develop an intense, humorless hyper-religiosity and an uncontrollable physical compulsion to write down their every waking thought, proving that sometimes divine inspiration is literally just an electrical storm in your head.
