Hi there,
That does sound like a seizure. A simple partial seizure affects your senses and you stay alert. but you can have deja vu, smell something that isn't there, or lose your sense of smell. That goes the same for sight, hearing, and touch. The simple partial seizure is why the famous artist vincent vangough cut off his own ear. A simple partial had him hearing things that weren't there. The grand mal seizures (tonic clonic) make a person fall to the ground and they go into muscle spasms. so because of the muscle spasms the person is bouncing all around amost like a fish out of water. Then there is the complex partial seizure or the petit mal (ansence) seizure. The staring spell is the seizure. But then the person goes into total 100% confusion. That's because the electrical activity in the brain isn't stable yet and is trying to work it's way back to normal. Also sometimes during the confusion, hallucinations can happen. After I had the petit mal seizures in the begining. I would ALWAYS throw up after a seizure. But a few years late that stopped. Epilepsy is a disease of the central nervous system in the brain. So the neurologist is the doctor that's the brain specialist, and a epileptologist is a neurologist that only specializes in epilepsy. I have the seizures because of blunt force trauma to the head wich gave me scaring on my right and left temporal lobes of the brain. The scar tissue is one of the things that causes the brain to produce the abnormal electrical activity. When the electrical activity is abnormal, the seizures start up. Also stress and emotions will start them up.
Sincerely
Shawn33