Anyone else get a glitch when they feel overwhelmed?

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This little response has puzzled me for the longest time. If I experience something that is really pleasurable, or new, it can cause me to get a "glitch". This lasts a split second, and it feels very strange. My vision temporarily blanks out, my body feels like it jerks, and my brain feels like it does a flip in my head. It feels like gears getting jammed and then unjammed. All so quick. Sometimes I get the pixelated vision, and lose my balance for that split second, or it causes a headache that lasts a moment.
All that is within a split second. It can happen if I smell something amazing, or see something, or feel something. The biggest one I had was when I got into a warm bath and the sensation caused it. It appears to be caused whenever I encounter something brand new, unexperienced, and very pleasant–or just intense.

Anyone else get that? Is that like a sensory overload? It only lasts that split second is the thing. And it's caused by specific things, not like, crowds. More like smelling a candle with a strong scent I've never smelled before (just an example).

Some of what you describe sounds like blood rushing to the head. I used to get that when my weight was really low. Whenever I stood up, I would get it. Once, I did fall over because it lasted a bit longer. I think I completely fainted for a moment.

Oh, ok.
And it is! I wish I knew exactly what caused it.

I don't experience the same thing, but the closest I can come to is sometimes when I am in bed with my eyes closed and I see just a dark field; I can suddenly hear a sharp click and my inner eye sees a black and white checkered design. I've never been able to figure that one out.

Strange. Are these just neuro-atypical symptoms of wonky-wiring?

i really have no idea if this is anything like what you're experiencing, but every now and then in a sea of people walking around in a public place, i look at someone and get what sort of feels like a brain twitch - like "oh my god, there's a person in there!" which is something i'm so unaccustomed to feeling that i don't know what to attribute it to. did i actually get something from looking in their eyes? synapse misfire? animal attraction? fear? it takes me a second to regain equilibrium, and it feels like a less intense version of what you are describing, but it is definitely an other person thing.

i once had this happen with someone literally across a crowded room after making very brief eye contact, and the feeling was so severe that afterward i was overcome by nausea.

just a SWAG [Scientific Wild-Assed Guess] here, but you might get yourself checked for irregular heartbeat. interruptions to the oxygen flow to the brain have been implicated in such symptoms as what you described in your OP. just a thought.
take care of yourself now

It is just the file cabinet opening to store this new thing.

Sometimes I get the same, rarely in bursts that stop me cold, as new input develops everything I know.

My best patents came from "a bolt from the blue," and I found it described by others who developed or invented.

It is the, this is new, response.

A moment of intense thought when time stops and the lights come on.

It is a good thing, total awareness of one thought.

When I get into a place of emotional overload - like, if I'm about to have a discussion with someone and it's going to get heated - I start rapid blinking and all my thoughts turn to mush...I normally will start to stutter a little too. So I try to buy time by saying something like, "Wait a minute..." because I can't think of a quick enough response. It's like, I know I have to respond, but I also know I don't have the time to think of something right off the top of my head.