He had a seizure of some sort......For those few seconds of staring he was simply “gone” and he’ll have no recollection of that time. I could tell you exactly what he was thinking as he came out of it. He definately was aware something happened immediately but was groggy an lightheaded.
Up until my mid-twenties I had Grand Mall seizures, maybe twice a year when I skipped medication on occassion but mostly controlled. You have an awful sense of of a gap in time an no recollection at all of what was going on during that gap....an you know those around you know what happened.
McConnell seemed to be having a Petite Mal seizure, otherwise known as an “absence seizure”.