9. The Symptoms of Prophecy
Symptoms of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) include muscle twitching/rigidity, facial flushing, lip smacking, confusion/fear, profuse sweating, depression/suicidal ideation and visual/auditory hallucinations.
Geschwind syndrome is a manifestation of TLE characterized by extreme verbal output, hyperreligiosity, altered sexuality and intensified mental life.
Credible hadiths describing Muhammad's revelations:
Sahih Bukhari 6982 (First revelation)
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"The angel caught me (forcefully) and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it anymore" (×3)
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"his neck muscles twitching with terror till he entered upon Khadija and said, 'Cover me! Cover me!' They covered him till his fear was over and then he said, 'O Khadija, what is wrong with me?'"
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"the Prophet (ﷺ) became so sad as we have heard that he intended several times to throw himself from the tops of high mountains"
Sahih Bukhari 2
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"Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) replied, 'Sometimes it is (revealed) like the ringing of a bell'"
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"I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) being inspired divinely on a very cold day and noticed the sweat dropping from his forehead (as the Inspiration was over)"
Sahih Bukhari 5
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"Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to bear the revelation with great trouble and used to move his lips (quickly) with the Inspiration"
Sahih Bukhari 4985
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"The Prophet's face was red and he kept on breathing heavily for a while and then he was relieved."
Sahih Bukhari 4592
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"Allah revealed to his Apostle while his thigh was on my thigh, and his thigh became so heavy that I was afraid it might fracture my thigh."
Less likely than a 7th century man in a cave getting revelation from the creator of the universe?