@@gamerscience9389 my experience is more like a psychological discomfort i cant explain. the images in my brain are distorted or "zoomed", same with when i open my eyes. in other words opened eyes or closed eyes make no difference.
I do! Walking feels like running and I get even more sensitive to sound than I already am. Usually happens when I'm focused on something and lasts 5-15 min. Barely felt macropsia or micropsia as a kid, nor the fast feeling, just an unusual tactile perception.
My first experience that really stuck with me is I thought a patient was falling off the table. Because he was flying away from me really fast. So I grabbed him and held him against the table. He was like... um... I was saying, "I've got you!" Then suddenly I realized he didn't move. So for me it feels less like growing or shrinking and more like flying away or falling. I also get the derealization and will feel like the floor is shaking... like a subway is underneath you. I will perceive things incorrectly, like there is a face in the wood pattern... I know it's just perception but now there are faces all over the wood. Or the laundry basket in the hall is a kid in the hall. Which scares the heck out of me but it only lasts a second. Oi one that gets me a lot is my own reflection... I don't recognize myself and think there is someone else in the room. Because I don't see her in the mirror but in front of it.
I used to get this so much as a kid. Not all the same on the video. It would sometimes happen when I’m just sat around and instantly everything was 2x as far away. It was like someone edited my FOV. Also, while this was happening people’s voices and noises sounded sarcastic and aggressive to me (this is very hard to explain). This used to last a while and I would always rub my eyes to make it go away but it was like I was trapped until it went away naturally. This hasn’t happened to me for a very long time but I used to be able to activate it, all I had to do was stare at somebody’s face for a very long time and not blink but once I activated it I couldn’t really get out (this was at the worst times)
I'm 31 and I've had a form of this since I was a kid and now it only happens once every 2-5 months. My symptoms are that everything around me feels really fast including my body movements and my grip feels very tight if I grab something. I have found I can usually stop it by watching something in real time like the news or have a conversation with my wife and tell her that it's happening. I always ask if I'm moving really fast and the answer is no. I also feel like I move slower to try and compensate for the fast feeling of movements I'm having. Anyone else have these symptoms?
I'm in my 30s also. I haven't gotten it in years. But what you feel is similar then mine. I feel like my brain is going a mile a minute. I hear people speak in super speed. I also feel my fingers and tongue thicker then normal. I usually sing a song with my internal voice in a super slow pace until it passes. I just found out today it was this syndrome. Never knew. As a kid and even at times as an adult (because I didn't know what was happening) I felt scared.
Hi I’m Tyler I’m 21 I have had this sense I was 8 I had to go to the university of Michigan hospital and get scans all the time and I have the same feelings as well I also get the eye sight thing but most of the time I get the sounds and feeling and it feels more extream like things are faster and louder then they really are
Hey bro dont get afraid! Iam now 13 and this is happening with me since i was around 6 year old ! At that time , when i was 6 year old , i become very much afraid of it and i used to cry!! But thank god!! That time passed! Iam now 13 year old and i face aiws now too but i dont get afraid of it now! Its generally happens in night not in the day. At night i used to wake up suddenly and found that it is happening so , i get up from my bed and after saying to my mom that mom its happening and walk to my balcony and used to watch the road and the street lights. And after 20 to 30 minutes it stop happening. My symptoms:- all thing start looking too small or too big and my palm become numb and surrounding sound becomes more loud which is the most irritating.
I used to have this happen as a kid/teen, and rarely happened in my 20s, I’m 30, and it just happened today. I decided to look up if there was a name for it, landing here, in tachysensia
Hi there I go by blossom I’m 11 and I believe I may have Alice in wonderland Here’s my story I have episodes frequently at night , I remember my first episode when I was on my bed I suddenly looked to my right and I saw my door was far away , my bed was suddenly on the floor I would be able to feel my entire room would move , move as in changing angles I looked at the lightbulb and it looked so far away , my feet reached the end of the bed , I’m 5'0 so that was weird Sometimes black shadows like huge spiders for a millisecond passing around my room I would try to sleep and close my eyes but suddenly feel like my bed would feel like it’s suddenly slowly going upright And sometimes I see my bed going forward like a car I always get scared everytime it happens my heart beat goes really fast It feels like forever, for me it happens really often and now I’m scared to move I always freeze I have failed to tell this to anyone and I’m not even sure if it’s something else I have never suffered any brain damage although i would say I probably have social anxiety I haven’t old this to my school counselor yet But somehow I always know it’s and episode but still everytime it happens it still terrifies me I’m always scared an episode might appear in school or other stuff I want to know what I can do about this during summer with the fact that I can’t talk to my school counselor with this Thanks :)!
Your vocabulary and spelling seem far above an 11 year old, but if you’re experiencing these things you need to talk to someone like a doctor about it and maybe they can help the symptoms get better, maybe a therapist could help as well. I suffer from migraines that make me feel those things sometimes too, but it’s a little different and is followed by pain. There’s a pinched nerve in my neck that causes it sometimes so going to a chiropractor could also help. You’re going to be ok you’re not crazy
Keagan Kalbfleisch glad to hear about your story And yes I’m planning to ask my dad about visiting the doctors after this pandemic is over Have a great day =)
I experience kind of like yours. I experience something called teleopsia. It’s hard to explain but I experience panic attacks and hallucinations and night tares. I am 14 years old and have had this disorder since I was 3 (11 years) basically things appear farther away from me but they are zoomed in at the same time. I see tiny spots and freak me out really bad. So for example someone can stand 20 feet away from me and I can see the stitching in their shirt. It makes it seem really far away. To put what I experience in perspective imagine your an ant. And your inside a giants eye and u can see in first person what they see. Everything looks huge to you and you can see all the tiny things inside objects like for example a pillow case that is fabric you can see all the tiny stitchings in it. No matter how close you are to the pillow even when your face is dug into it it still appears far away. So I think we experience the same thing but different side effects. My hallucinations are much different from yours and I’m glad you don’t have to experience what I experience but I also know what you go through and it sucks. Depending on your symptoms you can’t really do much about it. I have gone to the doctors, tberapist, mental institutions and nobody could figure out why I was experiencing these things and what was causing them. The only thing that can happen is growing out of it. There isn’t a cure for it yet but I think within the next few years scientists and doctors will figure it out. I’m sorry you have to go through this.
I totally totally relate to the insects circling round the room. Mine was snails going across the ceilings down the walls and across the floor Every time I made a noise or moved it would speed up It was quiet whispering and when I moved it would SHOUT but still whispering
Hi I’m 16, I had most of my episodes around the age of 5-12. I’ve had a few episodes in the years after that but it’s increasingly less common. I experience an altered perception of time and sound. My body movements feel fast yet exaggerated. This exaggeration makes me feel like I’m moving slowly at the same time that I feel like I’m moving fast. I also hear my own voice in my head yelling, announcing everything I do. It sometimes seems like a female lead in a rock band is shouting along with my inner voice. The important thing is that I know I am making it up. I am aware that what I am experiencing isn’t real and it’s just my perception. I find I often have episodes when I am under the weather and under stimulated. For example in a silent class room, zoned out, not really aware of my own thoughts. Or when I’m lying in bed sick and I move after being quite still for a while then I get that feeling of moving fast and slow.
It not frightening for me when I’m in an episode. I think this is because I don’t experience altered visual perceptions. I also often can wait it out because I am not doing anything else that needs my attention. When it does become a hinderance is when I do need to be doing something. I find counting out loud or talking to someone helps end the episode earlier 👍
I feel like I've got this (I'm not diagnosed yet) because of some experiences I had: When I'm awake, sometimes when I stare at my hands, they seem really small and really near. And when I stare at things like walls with a reoccuring pattern, fences, goals, etc. they also seem really near. Also when it's silent somewhere, like for example when I have an exam, I hear loads of overlapping, whispering voices, and the silence gets too much and I have to make some noise. Or when someone is talking it gets too fast and I get overloaded or something. When I'm falling asleep or even just close my eyes, I also sometimes experience that whisper thing, and I, usually when I'm really tired before going to bed, get flashing pictures and feel like they're zooming in and out of my body. I also can't really feel where my body is lying, and I feel like some parts of it are shrinking or getting bigger. Idk if this has anything to do with the syndrome, but I also struggle to imagine actions in my head, like a video, or even just a picture when I'm falling asleep. All in all it feels like a very unpleasant drug trip, or atleast that's what I imagine one would feel like. Does anyone relate to this, and am I healthy?
There's no official diagnosis really. The only thing they can gaugem is your brain under a cat scan during an episode. Every region of the brain is firing off similar to a seizure. Other than that there's no medical test or method to find out. Nor any medication to pull yourself through an episode. It's manageable despite being the most horrific mind trap from hell. The uncontrllable sensory overload is a terrible the and inability to turn things off is
I almost want to cry! I've been experiencing this for the past 3 years! I suffered drug induced psychosis and along with that I felt this distorted reality type of feeling, like everything was in 3D and I was in the passenger seat. Florescent lights in a grocery store seem to trigger me, because everything seems so far and close and big and small so suddenly I almost have a panic attack because it makes me so disoriented. I also suffer from chronic migraines so it all lines up as well. I'm not diagnosing myself from the internet lol but it helps to know that what I was feeling, that 3D feeling, wasn't just in my head, and that I'm not alone in feeling like this
If you close your eyes (to do a meditation for example), and you FEEL like you are getting bigger and the room and objects around you are getting smaller, is it still Alice in wonderland syndrome? Even if you only feel that way and don't see any distortions with open eyes?
This used to happen more frequently when I was younger, now at 33, it happens every few months usually when I am hyper-focused on something, and especially if my body is either in motion or lying down, I feel as though I am shrinking. Everything is stretching away from me really fast. My head feels heavy and my thoughts feel like I am being sucked back.
Ecaxlty it happens when I'm focused on something. Usually it's the rubix cube lol. Once I start solving it I get it, so basically I have it on command lol, it's a funny experience
This is interesting because I am not sure how it came about before, but just now I was talking to my dad about a book we are now both reading and was concentrating hard and enthusiastic about it and then this sensation came about!! Almost like an outer body experience where my body didn't feel like mine when I was standing and crossing my arms and feeling my body and arms, and i tried to relax more and it sort of went away...
I have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome for about 13years, but one day it happens again and somehow I can control it by drinking water. So I don't know if this work for you guys or maybe not, but this work for me. Sorry, My English is bad but Hopefully, you guys learn how to control it!
Had one today. Everything around me including ppl look small. They look like they're so far away yet they're there only. Like firt their head starts shrinking making ppl look small to my vision. Ran to every room splashed water on my face. The fear always gets me. I feel extreme aniety. I turn around and the television cupboards everything including ppl look like 5× smaller. I panic. But I was telling myself it'll get over it's okay. It'll b over. Drank water. I breathe in and out continuosly. It got over in 5 minutes. I've noticed happens wen I'm stressed or overthinking. I'm gonna stop all this crap "have to study, doing ntg, wat life will I have thoughts, anxiety issues, ppls expectations thrusted on me, "prove yourself" worldly thing and just focus on keeping myself sane and calm in a simple life. It's OKAY to just freaking sit eat live and die, until ur content.
@@ritikaritu3089 Remember to stay hydrated! water is very useful for me I'm 21 years old and still have it when I drink very less water. try to walk around the house if you start panic, keep walking until the syndrome stop!
I don’t know if it’s just me, but whenever I get this ‘Alice in Wonderland’ moment, it sometimes go hand-in-hand with sleep paralysis. Usually only happens to me at night, when I just woke up from sleep, or if I’m really tired
I found out a very accurate illustration of my change in perception. If you max out the field of view settings in a video game you'll see what I see when this occurs. But I don't have any headaches or migraine in relation to it.
I used to get this so much as a kid. Not all the same on the video. It would sometimes happen when I’m just sat around and instantly everything was 2x as far away. It was like someone edited my FOV. Also, while this was happening people’s voices and noises sounded sarcastic and aggressive to me (this is very hard to explain). This used to last a while and I would always rub my eyes to make it go away but it was like I was trapped until it went away naturally. This hasn’t happened to me for a very long time but I used to be able to activate it, all I had to do was stare at somebody’s face for a very long time and not blink but once I activated it I couldn’t really get out (this was at the worst times)
Anyone else get their mind flooded with algorithms during an episode? I would hallucinate this endless stream of variables that my mind would involuntarily solve them into an exploded view of patterns that represented the values..... this condition is absolutely impossible to explain in a way for someone to understand. The younger I was, the more vivid, intense and terrifying. They did progress when I was 16 - that's when it would overwhelm me with what seemed like infinitesimal functions being constructed before my eyes. I say involuntarily, but at the same time it wasn't. I couldn't stop if I wanted to. Time would slow to a near halt - same with the algorithms and then speed up uncontrollable with streams of numbers that I would turn into equations and solve. My episodes would happen in the middle of the night. Night terror doesn't begin to describe. I would break out into coldsweats. And if someone was trying to talk to me i couldn't make out the words. They were either talking too fast, too slow, too loud, or just mute. When every thing went mute it would follow with a progressing static sound until it was deafening. Like static from a tv with the volume all the way times ten. I thought I was insane. Idk maybe I am, it's bittersweet that I'm not the only one and unfortunate that other ppl experience this. Interesting how doctors are clueless to it. What they do know is that under a cat scan during an episode every region of the brain is firing off. similar to what happens to the brain during seizures.
YES! 1000X yes! My hands and fingertips were huge, and the numbers and endless formulas were terrifying. It’s so hard to explain but you put it into words. I remember vomiting after these episodes. The numbers were the scariest part.
Yes similar effects, so everything moving fast, almost like repeating itself but without the visual repetition. Similar to fast heartbeat but without the heart rate increasing. Also things become heavier. Heavier to move, as if you are very aware that you are moving a mouse or typing on a keyboard with every tap. Walking while this happens feels like you put the food down already multiple times before you put the foot down on the ground to make another step. But all the thoughts are clear as they would be without the effect. Lasts between 5-20 minutes. With first 30 seconds to a minute increasing reaching its peak between 4-5 minutes and calming down on the 10th minute. From what I've been able to find online it is called Tachysensia. So nothing to worry about based on what is written about it. But I would not risk to drive a car while experiencing this.
I'm currently recovering from covid and yesterday I woke up at 4am having this uncomfortable feeling of an object getting heavier and heavier but I'm not seeing it. As I woke up it didn't go away but became worse and worse so I panicked and ran to the livingroom and just sat on the ground till it went away. One of the most terrifying experience I've ever had.
@@catrionamcloughlin6937 Isn't that where you cannot move your body while awake? I do remember that I was walking and awake but it did not stop, so I'm not sure.
@@TH-cam..Enjoyer erm, the sense of something heavy being on your body, or someone/thing sitting on you is often reported in combination with sleep paralysis. I'm not sure if I understood your comment, was it *you* that you felt getting heavier, or something on you? If you remember. Yeah, sleep paralysis is where you become conscious and your body is still asleep. I also can't tell if I'm managing to move or not, I'll try to move an arm, and it *feels* like my arm has moved to in front of my face, but I can *see* it's not there! So either how it feels or how it looks is wrong, or both. So confusing and frightening.
I have sensory aws. I never knew it was a thing and no one believed me. Sometimes my phone feels like a laptop. I drive a truck and sometimes I feel like I'm a midget and the steering wheel is 5ft wide. Sometimes I feel giant and duck under things. Super weird feeling
Strangely enough from personal experience, when you realize that your body’s movement is the same as normal it’s just a visual thing, it makes it feel twice as trippy.
This used to always happen to me as a kid. I remember sitting watching TV and looking at my hands or feet thinking they felt really far away but the TV and the TV stand felt really big and too close. I currently have the flu as a 31 y/o Male and have experienced this again. Lying in bed with my hands together under my pillow which felt like a really tight grip even though it wasn’t and everything in the room felt so far away from me. Such a bizarre feeling.
Yes I have it too! 😂 fortunately it's nothing but a strange experience. My microspia used to be random but now it's triggered whenever I use the rubix cube lol idk why?😂
@fdoge6991 dude that's the worst! I think I had microspsia once when I was asleep and I still remember thag horrifying dream to this day decades later
I had this multiple times. The last one arguing with my wife late at night. I had one where i felt like i was watching myself sit on the couch from a black amd white TV.
This happened to me a few weeks ago. I’m 32! First time it happened I might have been 14.. It happens every few years! I thought I just might be crazy, with a lack of sleep! I’m just now trying to figure out what’s been happening, because this last time it happened, it lasted about 4mins (the longest time for me)! Thank you!
I’m 14 and I have had this disorder for 11 years. Ever since I was little things would appear farther away than they actually were. This caused panic attacks and night tares. I just had one an hour ago which made me go to this video. For people who are watching who don’t experience this stuff you are very lucky. It’s been very rough on me and I’m sure on many others. In my experience this disorder has had phobias come along with this disorder. Including phobia of small holes and a phobia of large and small objects. Every where I look things seem really far away. I can see the tiny wholes in fabric and paint bumps on the walls. Seeing those usually triggers my night tares and panic attacks. I experience this disorder eyes open and closed. Even if I close my eyes things that appear in my mind still get farther away. When I say things are farther away I’m not talking about it’s just like zooming out. When I say they are getting farther away I mean like the wall doesn’t move but I just see it as farther away. It’s almost like it zooms into the wall to where I can see the tiny dots you can say and it feels as if the wall is actually huge and I’m really far away from it. This is extremely hard to explain and describe so I’m sorry if this makes no since. Another example is right now when I’m typing this comment. I can see the little tiny lights on my phones screen. I see them as little tiny dots. So in my mind it feels like I’m spectating in a giant and the phone and hands are ginormous and I’m like an ant. Anyways I’m kinda getting triggered so I’m going to stop. But last note to learn is that I can’t do anything about this. There are ways i have learned to cope with this but kk coping ways are actually going to stop it immediately. My experiences usually last around 10-20 minutes. I called this the far away s and I still do. Many other people have called it the far aways as well. So if you experience some things like this and I call it the far aways or something similar then you probably have Alice in wonderland syndrome but anyways. That’s my experience and I hope this educated some of you.
My thing is called teleopsia which is a type of Alice in wonderland disorder. The disorder has different types if they makes since. Like different symptoms. Some experience all 4 symptoms and some experience 1 symptom
@@jd_17gaming8 hiya, I experience the exact same and I did not know this was thing. I cannot believe what you've written has explained what I've suffered for years. I have never been able to put into words
@@jd_17gaming8 I am 22 & still suffer this, the doctors are looking into if I have a rare form of epilepsy because I have deva ju a few times a day. Do you know what causes yours?
@@rowenatoole5297 mine just comes from what I think about or things around me. If i just look around my room at my walls it can trigger it. I can barely got to carnivals wihtout getting triggered by the spinning rides. The thing they triggers it the most is thinking about what triggers it. Also size comparisons every time they trigger me. People were talking about how small we are in the universe and someone said that the earth isn’t even a grain of sand. That triggered me big time. But yeah that stuff triggers me
When I was a child I suffered with this really badly due to anxiety, it went on for years and the older I got I started suffering with chronic disassociation which terrified me even more, I'm 56 back then there wasn't a name for it and to accept it, I can control it now so it doesnt terrorise me the way it used to.
This has been happening to me when I was young. I honestly thought it happened when I got this after a horrible fever when I was young. I remember I was feeling like I was shrinking and growing. Everyone was either yelling or talking normal. I still experience this as an adult. I notice it’s usually when I’m in a sense of stress mode. Idk I always thought it was just me.
Hi Guys, I'm 27 and feel like I had something like this but slightly different. See symptoms below: - in my head I could see a person talking slowly but moving faster and faster over time - my breathing felt super calm and fast - i had headphones in so couldn't hear anything - when I blinked it was really intentional and felt fast - I can stop it by just speaking to someone and get back into the "real world" Has any one felt this at all ? Do you think it is the same as the "fast feeling" suggested in the video. The main different is that it doesnt feel like time moved faster (its only more intentional - like really present) but in my head everything is getting super fast and continually faster untill I break away. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I’m 24 years old and currently going through AWID, it’s a horrible experience every time I look at my phone and become so small I can’t read anything.. faces and people look like play toys if I look up on the sun for a couple of seconds it goes away but it comes back sooner or later.. it makes me crazy headaches and migraines.. i’ve been only experiencing this for the last couple of weeks... I had it when I was younger when I was 7/8 years old.. then it only happened at night, now I’m having it at any time of the day.. I wish someone could help me but nobody understands what I’m going through that’s the most horrible feeling when People don’t believe you...
they don't believe us as they've not experienced it my dude, if you speak with somebody who has taken heavy doses of LSD, DMT or something, they'll understand you somewhat more, but this is an insanely rare "syndrome" apparently, we no nothing about it and there is no treatment that i'm aware of, and if there is.... thats a person trying to cure it by throwing random psychotropic meds at you hoping one will have a positive affect, nooo thank you. lol
My son is 7.5yo now, he has been experiencing seeing things small before bed for a month..I called doctor but she has no idea about the symptom. I am doing a lot of research and finally last night I got to know AIWS. I don't know how to help him sadly.
Taking Sinus clearing and supporting herbs and eating organic fruits/vegetables and non-mucus forming foods (no meat, dairy, processed foods ect.. helped a lot.
Can relate to someone’s comment that it makes them feel like they are sleeping on a rock. For me on rare occasion (usually when I have a fever, even more so in a fever dream) it’s that mixed with the sensation that my teeth are shrinking, and my body balloons while my limbs deflate. Very disorienting when I’m awake and it happens. Other indescribable sensations along with it like all of the pores on my body deepen/widen while I roll forward on a big semi-smooth boulder 😅 Happens all at once. I’ve had the FOV slide and zoom like you see in some movies for dramatic effect. Also, time slow down/speed up. Those only a handful of times. Not sure if this is aiws, but learning and reading comments about this triggers memories of those sensations.
I might have Alice in wonderland syndrome.My reflection in mirrors changes and one day I had no reflection.Animals are rejecting me for no apparent reason and I do astral projection and I have headaches all the time.
I'm pretty sure I experienced this multiple times between the ages of 6 and 8. I had a bad concussion when I was 6 and thought maybe it was the cause. When lying in bed, my hands felt very big. Like balloons as in the Pink Floyd song. Sometimes my feet had the same sensation. Also the ceiling would look further away than it was. I felt very relaxed and at peace when this happened although at first it was a little scary. I'm 63 now and its only happened for a few very quick times since i was a child. I never heard of AWS until recently.
I used to have this quite frequently (Between once a week and twice a month, occasional periods of time it could be up to 3-4 times a week though) from 6 or 7 up until the age of about 15/16 (This was 2016 for reference) when i started to smoke weed pretty much every day and it stopped completely, around 18 months ago i decided to pack it in for the 1st time and within 3-4 days i started to find it coming back usually every 3-4 days as well, this persisted for around 2 months until i returned to my former habit and started smoking again. I quit again for this new years 2023, this time hopefully for a long while too, and within 3-4 days it started happening again. It is now 16 days into the new year and i have experienced this 4 times since, always at night, and have no idea as to why. I never even knew it was a thing until 18 months ago when an episode came on and a searched online for the symptoms i was experiencing and found that everything i read about AIWS matched up perfectly, I thought it was just a weird quirk of my own and never really questioned it as i'd always had it, usually I get that strange fast feeling but at other times I don't get that at all and it just feels like everything is extremely small and far away, yet close at the same time (?), It also appears i am far taller from my own perspective when looking at things around me. Anyone here also have any experience with weed and its effects in relation to this? Id be interested to hear if so as no forums ive found mention any correlation between. I also find that the frequency in which this happens is far less with most cases than what I am having right now and had as a child and I'd want to know if anyone else has/gets it this often.
This happens to me, ever since my coma but I kinda like it b.c I know it's not real. Stairways and steps look so far away or super close. My hands and arms look HUGE or tiny. The walls look like they're Waves. Sometimes everything looks like slow motion. Not all at once so I know it's my brain playing tricks.
I have this, it is such a bizarre and uncomfortable feeling. Unfortunately, the only way to stop it is to open your eyes and sometimes you just need to focus on objects in your surroundings.
I used to ba able to slow down time around me at will when i was little, i know it wasn’t real but the longer it happend the sicker i felt and sometimes i would start to panick because i wasnt able to get it to stop. Peoples voices sounded so strange. I can’t believe i forgot about this until i watchad a rabbit hole video on youtube… this is crazy!!
Sometimes my fingers feel rlly big and heavy, or they feel like they’re not there. Or my teeth feel rlly big and round, and I was just holding my phone and it started feeling heavy and big. It’s so weird and it freaks me out loll
nope. because nobody knows anything about this shit my dude, i've been looking into this for about 10 years + now on and off as i have it, nobody has a clue and we can't be helped l0l.
You can’t go to a doctor to this. I’m sorry to say this and I hope u don’t freak another but there is no cure to this. You just have to grow out of it. I have had this for 11 years and I’m 14 years old so I could have this until I’m 17 or have it until I’m 30 so it just depends but you can’t get rid of it. Something I will say is that over time occurrences will happen less but will still Happen when I was 3 to 7 they happened every night and happened multiple times a night. Now they occur like once a month if that. But it can change up really randomly.
My visual perception changes and i feel scared all of a sudden. Even using my phone it looks large and far away. Idk how to explain but my senses get sharpened? Overall i feel so scared
I have landed here today due to my daughter's recent confession that this is happening to her. Objects increasing/decreasing in size and moving far/close. I am overwhelmed with this situation ... but reading all these comments makes me feel a bit better, so many people suffering from this disorder (and hopefully living normal lives) is a bit comforting right now. Any advice from parents or adult sufferers to help me cope or know what to do when she is having the episodes, would be appreciated.
I don't experience headache or migrain when I have this but I see everything pelopsia and teleopsia time slows down and vision gets zoomed out or in depending on it
I'm 56yrs old and I have had these experiences all my life from childhood and not said anything about them, I do not get Migraines or anything else' I'm fit and healthy, I have the ability to turn it on and off when I wish, I can get so deep and far away it gets a bit scarey so I turn it off, but I have not reached past the scarey bit, yet!?
Hiya, I am 22 & still having these. I thought everyone had it until recently. I've always had it since I can remember. I cannot believe people are managing to put it into words as I've never been able to. I to do not have migraines
I had this happen to me a feel times growing up ages 10-13. Just felt like all actions, sounds, movements, even thoughts would gradually go faster and faster. To confirm my feelings, I would always go to the bathroom and turn on the faucet and hear the water sound pour louder and louder. I haven't had any episodes until this morning as I was on my computer focus working on a design. I automatically reconnected with the feeling. This time around at the age of 35 I am now more aware of what is real and my surroundings. I allowed it to happen for a few minutes then After I called someone to explain my feelings and after it started to settle down. It's crazy that we don't have more of an Idea why this happens to us. Wish there was more testing on it. Just very curious 🤔
Experienced today and had the same sensation of this syndrome after many many years when I was a small child, as a kid I used to see my hands growing longer and could reach objects far away. Today I got to know it’s a syndrome when I searched the internet.
When i was little I had symptoms like these when i was really tired. My room would feel really big and everything would seem far away. I would be surprised when i coulr reach things that were actually right next to me. This doesn't happen anymore, but I was wondering if that was normal. I don't think that it is alice in wonderland syndrome, because it barely ever happened.
I had this when I was 10-12. Everything would feel too thin with a few things feeling too thick. Anything I would grab or touch would feel way too thin, especially round things, even my forearms felt too thin! It all looked the same and wasn't warped in any way except for my fingers which would look too thin. I would usually take a shower and that would help me get through it for some reason, but I can remember this one time where the water was also too thin, which ended up making the episode way worse, and then they just suddenly stopped happening one day and I have not had another episode since, although I have noticed that if I think too hard about things being too thin they would feel just slightly too thin for a second, writing this gave me it for a couple seconds as well.
I came to this video because I was doing research. I have Kjer’s optic atrophy and as a result, everything I see is smaller, not blurry, but smaller. I wear glasses so I can.bring things a tad closer.
I'm particularly interested in anybody who heard what sounded like somebody whispering and yelling at them. If you were a male, did you hear a male voice? And if you were female, did you hear a female voice?
for me it was my grandpa yelling watching sports in the room over. i called my grandma to tell him to stop yelling and she was dumbfounded. “hes not yelling or talking” but it sounded like he was maniacally yelling and laughing at the game. VERY loud!! but also everything seemed to be of a whisper
I've experienced the whispers a few times. Too many voices to tell the genders. Sounded like they were In a tunnel. Getting louder and louder as they would approach. The sounds wouldn't come from a particular direction they would just get louder- too loud to discern if they were voices anymore, i would gear the loud TV static. Loud TV static is something I experienced every time.
Hi, I'm Daniel and I believe I have AIWS, every time I go to sleep, things suddenly feel more far away, and that makes me stress a lot, its still happening to me, last night it happened too, I am sick right now too, but sometimes even worse, when I feel like a heavy object is getting heavier but its not there, I don't know how to explain, but its very terrible to happen.
If any one is having the derealization/ panic attacks from this I was for years I had the most severe derealization doctors have ever Hurd before they tryed so many different medications noting worked until I tryed Zoloft which is a miracle drug I been on it for years now and it’s helps with my sever anxiety and when I get a Alison wonderland episode I don’t panic no more b/c of the zolft
ive been having this for years since my teenage that time i thought i had a vision problem i always tell my mom maybe i need glasses, now im 30 years old, it happened to me just today so i came again looking for more information about, because today it got worst, it usually takes few minutes but this afternoon it took way longer than before. it doesnt happen everyday, sometimes i dont experience it for months. ive discovered something is that everytime i drink too much coffee it happen, i dont usually drink coffee but sometimes when i sleep just 3 or 4 hours i do drink coffee at work, i dont know why but everytime it happened to me ive had coffee and im more sure about this today
This used to happen to me when I was 6-10 I had a concussion when I was very young like 5 and I think that might have been why, When I have a episode which This is the first time I have had one Since I was like 8 I’m 16 now I feel like things move so fast Everything I do is moving super fast, Like my body starts moving fast just time in general is moving fast my hands my legs eveything if I have a song in my head it starts going fast, and eveything gets really aggressive and feels like shocked like i’m in shock and words and movements feel aggressive and music and when I was like 6 I would keep seeing like a plain peach just get bigger and bigger and then shrink into like a small like pencil thing I don’t even know how to explain it Hope this helps some of yall
I'm convinced I have it...it has happened about 3 times. I had woke up to my room being HUGE and elongated. It felt like a dream, with muted colors and very fuzzy.
What happens when your having migraines/head pains & have lesions in Parietal lobe but they dunno if your having seizures too due to other symptoms? That’s where I’m at. Haven’t gotten EEG yet. I am on seizure med though cuz migraine meds didn’t do anything. Prior to the head pains starting months ago & new symptoms making me think I had a brain tumor all the sudden….i had long history of other weird stuff & kept getting diagnosed with sleep related disorders & panic attacks. Now after doing some research……it appears I have like every symptom of parietal lobe epilepsy
Now my lesions aren’t structural lesions. They’re white matter lesions. So the migraines could be actually causing that, no idea. My family dr didn’t seem to know 100% but he’s also not a neurologist. He’s the one that ordered the MRI. He said that’s probably the case but that not all of my symptoms would be caused by migraines
He had started treating me though because he knew how long it takes to get into the neurologist (i was already misdiagnosed once before the head pains started as well). But he also said I’d prob need to get an EEG done if this Topamax didn’t work
I get like 50 diff symptoms that come and go at diff times. Prob due to having complex migraines overlapping now. Really bad staring spells, speech issues, stroke-like symptoms, weakness, electrical sensations, tingling, floating, face melting, finger tip pain, head tinging, crawling sensations, neuropathy, burning, vertigo, blurred/double vision, time slowing down, losing time, impaired awareness, facial spasms, muscle tension/twitching, depth perception (shrinking/growing), saw someone’s eye fall down their face once, rapid blinking/eye movements, nausea, overwhelmed by stupid stuff, etc. It’s like an acid trip half the time.
Well shit , so i don’t get migraines when it happens and it’s happened since I was about six or eight . Laying in bed looking at my blinds and I swear they were so tiny I could crush them with my fingers and I felt so out of place . Didn’t happen to often maybe a few times a year . I’ve had three migraines in my life , they are horrible and I start tripping out but I take aspirin and ibprofrin and as quick as I can I stumble blindly holding my head trying to see thru the blackness to find some type of vibrational/frequency migraine music on TH-cam cause that shit works without a doubt ! But I started having disassociation when I eleven , walked all the way home from school and didn’t remember it and didn’t snap out of it til a car honked at me . I started having dejavu around the same time too . I had all sorts of test done and I had some signaling issues in my left thalamus but that didn’t happen til a car accident . I was diagnosed with paranoia schizophrenia for the noises and faint talking “in another room “ I was having off and on and the overwhelming feeling of someone watching me all the time and or god or an angel trying to talk to me or control me or some shit . So I still don’t know wtf causes that feeling . I do get a home sick type feeling a lot and that’s the worst ! Anyone know what that is about ?
Off-topic here, OK I’m diagnosed with far so I didn’t without my glasses I can see everything perfectly and things of clothes good but everything goes small so of course things are a little blurry right now because I’m not John Greenman getting older just some pumpkin blurring things out here
Same with me except for my fingers or other long rounded objects. My fingers would actually look too thin while everything around me just felt too thin.
Wdym? Most people just get it randomly at any age but mostly when your young I’m 14 and had it since I was 3 I along with my parents and doctors have no clue how I got it but I still have it and I’m gonna have it for a long ways to come
I have migraine. Sometes vertigo too. This too caused by migraine. I do have typical white flash auras for 10 mins accompanied with hours of extreme pain killing headache. Those days just put me to bed like nothing. I pray bef every exam I shouldn't get one. Or atleast I shd cross the aura stage to atleast b able see questions properly. I'm in clg. These whole thing happens rarely. But these AIWS syndrome everything around me suddenly looks small. Happens Freq and vertigo too (feel like the whole place is spinning... I.e. rotating). I get scared.
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I can feel it even if it's dark or I close my eyes.
Same
SAME and often before sleeping i feel my bed is shaking up and down fast
talk to me
@@gamerscience9389 my experience is more like a psychological discomfort i cant explain. the images in my brain are distorted or "zoomed", same with when i open my eyes.
in other words opened eyes or closed eyes make no difference.
@@JericoEmmanuelRReyes yeah zoomed like as if they are far away and HUGE and you are small or tiny
Does anyone have one and feel like things are moving fast ?? Like talking and sounds sound louder and more extreme then they are ??
I do! Walking feels like running and I get even more sensitive to sound than I already am. Usually happens when I'm focused on something and lasts 5-15 min. Barely felt macropsia or micropsia as a kid, nor the fast feeling, just an unusual tactile perception.
My first experience that really stuck with me is I thought a patient was falling off the table. Because he was flying away from me really fast. So I grabbed him and held him against the table. He was like... um... I was saying, "I've got you!" Then suddenly I realized he didn't move.
So for me it feels less like growing or shrinking and more like flying away or falling.
I also get the derealization and will feel like the floor is shaking... like a subway is underneath you.
I will perceive things incorrectly, like there is a face in the wood pattern... I know it's just perception but now there are faces all over the wood. Or the laundry basket in the hall is a kid in the hall. Which scares the heck out of me but it only lasts a second. Oi one that gets me a lot is my own reflection... I don't recognize myself and think there is someone else in the room. Because I don't see her in the mirror but in front of it.
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Mine was quiet whispering.. whenever I moved it would still SOUND like whispering but would be screaming
I used to get this so much as a kid. Not all the same on the video. It would sometimes happen when I’m just sat around and instantly everything was 2x as far away. It was like someone edited my FOV. Also, while this was happening people’s voices and noises sounded sarcastic and aggressive to me (this is very hard to explain). This used to last a while and I would always rub my eyes to make it go away but it was like I was trapped until it went away naturally. This hasn’t happened to me for a very long time but I used to be able to activate it, all I had to do was stare at somebody’s face for a very long time and not blink but once I activated it I couldn’t really get out (this was at the worst times)
I'm 31 and I've had a form of this since I was a kid and now it only happens once every 2-5 months. My symptoms are that everything around me feels really fast including my body movements and my grip feels very tight if I grab something. I have found I can usually stop it by watching something in real time like the news or have a conversation with my wife and tell her that it's happening. I always ask if I'm moving really fast and the answer is no. I also feel like I move slower to try and compensate for the fast feeling of movements I'm having. Anyone else have these symptoms?
I'm in my 30s also. I haven't gotten it in years. But what you feel is similar then mine. I feel like my brain is going a mile a minute. I hear people speak in super speed. I also feel my fingers and tongue thicker then normal. I usually sing a song with my internal voice in a super slow pace until it passes. I just found out today it was this syndrome. Never knew. As a kid and even at times as an adult (because I didn't know what was happening) I felt scared.
Hi I’m Tyler I’m 21 I have had this sense I was 8 I had to go to the university of Michigan hospital and get scans all the time and I have the same feelings as well I also get the eye sight thing but most of the time I get the sounds and feeling and it feels more extream like things are faster and louder then they really are
Hey bro dont get afraid! Iam now 13 and this is happening with me since i was around 6 year old !
At that time , when i was 6 year old , i become very much afraid of it and i used to cry!! But thank god!! That time passed! Iam now 13 year old and i face aiws now too but i dont get afraid of it now! Its generally happens in night not in the day. At night i used to wake up suddenly and found that it is happening so , i get up from my bed and after saying to my mom that mom its happening and walk to my balcony and used to watch the road and the street lights. And after 20 to 30 minutes it stop happening. My symptoms:- all thing start looking too small or too big and my palm become numb and surrounding sound becomes more loud which is the most irritating.
Yea i had it too, got it since 10 years old, and last happened about 9 months ago (I'm 23), and just realise to stop it by watching television.
I used to have this happen as a kid/teen, and rarely happened in my 20s, I’m 30, and it just happened today. I decided to look up if there was a name for it, landing here, in tachysensia
Hi there
I go by blossom
I’m 11 and I believe I may have Alice in wonderland
Here’s my story
I have episodes frequently at night , I remember my first episode when I was on my bed
I suddenly looked to my right and I saw my door was far away , my bed was suddenly on the floor
I would be able to feel my entire room would move , move as in changing angles
I looked at the lightbulb and it looked so far away , my feet reached the end of the bed , I’m 5'0 so that was weird
Sometimes black shadows like huge spiders for a millisecond passing around my room
I would try to sleep and close my eyes but suddenly feel like my bed would feel like it’s suddenly slowly going upright
And sometimes I see my bed going forward like a car
I always get scared everytime it happens my heart beat goes really fast
It feels like forever, for me it happens really often and now I’m scared to move I always freeze
I have failed to tell this to anyone and I’m not even sure if it’s something else
I have never suffered any brain damage although i would say I probably have social anxiety
I haven’t old this to my school counselor yet
But somehow I always know it’s and episode but still everytime it happens it still terrifies me
I’m always scared an episode might appear in school or other stuff
I want to know what I can do about this during summer with the fact that I can’t talk to my school counselor with this
Thanks :)!
Your vocabulary and spelling seem far above an 11 year old, but if you’re experiencing these things you need to talk to someone like a doctor about it and maybe they can help the symptoms get better, maybe a therapist could help as well. I suffer from migraines that make me feel those things sometimes too, but it’s a little different and is followed by pain. There’s a pinched nerve in my neck that causes it sometimes so going to a chiropractor could also help. You’re going to be ok you’re not crazy
Keagan Kalbfleisch glad to hear about your story
And yes I’m planning to ask my dad about visiting the doctors after this pandemic is over
Have a great day =)
i have light version
I experience kind of like yours. I experience something called teleopsia. It’s hard to explain but I experience panic attacks and hallucinations and night tares. I am 14 years old and have had this disorder since I was 3 (11 years) basically things appear farther away from me but they are zoomed in at the same time. I see tiny spots and freak me out really bad. So for example someone can stand 20 feet away from me and I can see the stitching in their shirt. It makes it seem really far away. To put what I experience in perspective imagine your an ant. And your inside a giants eye and u can see in first person what they see. Everything looks huge to you and you can see all the tiny things inside objects like for example a pillow case that is fabric you can see all the tiny stitchings in it. No matter how close you are to the pillow even when your face is dug into it it still appears far away. So I think we experience the same thing but different side effects. My hallucinations are much different from yours and I’m glad you don’t have to experience what I experience but I also know what you go through and it sucks. Depending on your symptoms you can’t really do much about it. I have gone to the doctors, tberapist, mental institutions and nobody could figure out why I was experiencing these things and what was causing them. The only thing that can happen is growing out of it. There isn’t a cure for it yet but I think within the next few years scientists and doctors will figure it out. I’m sorry you have to go through this.
I totally totally relate to the insects circling round the room. Mine was snails going across the ceilings down the walls and across the floor
Every time I made a noise or moved it would speed up
It was quiet whispering and when I moved it would SHOUT but still whispering
Hi I’m 16, I had most of my episodes around the age of 5-12. I’ve had a few episodes in the years after that but it’s increasingly less common. I experience an altered perception of time and sound. My body movements feel fast yet exaggerated. This exaggeration makes me feel like I’m moving slowly at the same time that I feel like I’m moving fast. I also hear my own voice in my head yelling, announcing everything I do. It sometimes seems like a female lead in a rock band is shouting along with my inner voice. The important thing is that I know I am making it up. I am aware that what I am experiencing isn’t real and it’s just my perception. I find I often have episodes when I am under the weather and under stimulated. For example in a silent class room, zoned out, not really aware of my own thoughts. Or when I’m lying in bed sick and I move after being quite still for a while then I get that feeling of moving fast and slow.
It not frightening for me when I’m in an episode. I think this is because I don’t experience altered visual perceptions. I also often can wait it out because I am not doing anything else that needs my attention. When it does become a hinderance is when I do need to be doing something. I find counting out loud or talking to someone helps end the episode earlier 👍
do u still have this til now?how often it happens in a month when u feel it first time?
I feel like I've got this (I'm not diagnosed yet) because of some experiences I had:
When I'm awake, sometimes when I stare at my hands, they seem really small and really near. And when I stare at things like walls with a reoccuring pattern, fences, goals, etc. they also seem really near. Also when it's silent somewhere, like for example when I have an exam, I hear loads of overlapping, whispering voices, and the silence gets too much and I have to make some noise. Or when someone is talking it gets too fast and I get overloaded or something.
When I'm falling asleep or even just close my eyes, I also sometimes experience that whisper thing, and I, usually when I'm really tired before going to bed, get flashing pictures and feel like they're zooming in and out of my body. I also can't really feel where my body is lying, and I feel like some parts of it are shrinking or getting bigger. Idk if this has anything to do with the syndrome, but I also struggle to imagine actions in my head, like a video, or even just a picture when I'm falling asleep. All in all it feels like a very unpleasant drug trip, or atleast that's what I imagine one would feel like. Does anyone relate to this, and am I healthy?
There's no official diagnosis really. The only thing they can gaugem is your brain under a cat scan during an episode. Every region of the brain is firing off similar to a seizure. Other than that there's no medical test or method to find out. Nor any medication to pull yourself through an episode. It's manageable despite being the most horrific mind trap from hell. The uncontrllable sensory overload is a terrible the and inability to turn things off is
Same dude. But it's mot harmful. I kind of enjoy it. Although I once had it when I was asleep. And it was horrific to say the least
I almost want to cry! I've been experiencing this for the past 3 years! I suffered drug induced psychosis and along with that I felt this distorted reality type of feeling, like everything was in 3D and I was in the passenger seat. Florescent lights in a grocery store seem to trigger me, because everything seems so far and close and big and small so suddenly I almost have a panic attack because it makes me so disoriented. I also suffer from chronic migraines so it all lines up as well. I'm not diagnosing myself from the internet lol but it helps to know that what I was feeling, that 3D feeling, wasn't just in my head, and that I'm not alone in feeling like this
If you close your eyes (to do a meditation for example), and you FEEL like you are getting bigger and the room and objects around you are getting smaller, is it still Alice in wonderland syndrome? Even if you only feel that way and don't see any distortions with open eyes?
I think it is. I have that too.
It is. I can have it with eyes open or closed and you can feel it when they’re closed as well
This used to happen more frequently when I was younger, now at 33, it happens every few months usually when I am hyper-focused on something, and especially if my body is either in motion or lying down, I feel as though I am shrinking. Everything is stretching away from me really fast. My head feels heavy and my thoughts feel like I am being sucked back.
My kis is 9 . He feel his hand are big 😢
Ecaxlty it happens when I'm focused on something. Usually it's the rubix cube lol. Once I start solving it I get it, so basically I have it on command lol, it's a funny experience
This is interesting because I am not sure how it came about before, but just now I was talking to my dad about a book we are now both reading and was concentrating hard and enthusiastic about it and then this sensation came about!! Almost like an outer body experience where my body didn't feel like mine when I was standing and crossing my arms and feeling my body and arms, and i tried to relax more and it sort of went away...
I have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome for about 13years, but one day it happens again and somehow I can control it by drinking water.
So I don't know if this work for you guys or maybe not, but this work for me.
Sorry, My English is bad but Hopefully, you guys learn how to control it!
Had one today. Everything around me including ppl look small. They look like they're so far away yet they're there only. Like firt their head starts shrinking making ppl look small to my vision. Ran to every room splashed water on my face. The fear always gets me. I feel extreme aniety. I turn around and the television cupboards everything including ppl look like 5× smaller. I panic. But I was telling myself it'll get over it's okay. It'll b over. Drank water. I breathe in and out continuosly. It got over in 5 minutes.
I've noticed happens wen I'm stressed or overthinking. I'm gonna stop all this crap "have to study, doing ntg, wat life will I have thoughts, anxiety issues, ppls expectations thrusted on me, "prove yourself" worldly thing and just focus on keeping myself sane and calm in a simple life. It's OKAY to just freaking sit eat live and die, until ur content.
@@ritikaritu3089 Remember to stay hydrated! water is very useful for me I'm 21 years old and still have it when I drink very less water.
try to walk around the house if you start panic, keep walking until the syndrome stop!
@@ritikaritu3089 I know how you feel, just try and get used to it! There is nothing I can do, this syndrome is very challenging!
I don’t know if it’s just me, but whenever I get this ‘Alice in Wonderland’ moment, it sometimes go hand-in-hand with sleep paralysis. Usually only happens to me at night, when I just woke up from sleep, or if I’m really tired
I found out a very accurate illustration of my change in perception.
If you max out the field of view settings in a video game you'll see what I see when this occurs.
But I don't have any headaches or migraine in relation to it.
I used to get this so much as a kid. Not all the same on the video. It would sometimes happen when I’m just sat around and instantly everything was 2x as far away. It was like someone edited my FOV. Also, while this was happening people’s voices and noises sounded sarcastic and aggressive to me (this is very hard to explain). This used to last a while and I would always rub my eyes to make it go away but it was like I was trapped until it went away naturally. This hasn’t happened to me for a very long time but I used to be able to activate it, all I had to do was stare at somebody’s face for a very long time and not blink but once I activated it I couldn’t really get out (this was at the worst times)
@@TheYungM Did it sound like someone whispering and yelling at the same time?
@@Goodsir420 YES!! ive had this feeling. also for me it felt like i was feeling a ball or orb as a center point of focus; surrounded by a skewed FOV
Anyone else get their mind flooded with algorithms during an episode? I would hallucinate this endless stream of variables that my mind would involuntarily solve them into an exploded view of patterns that represented the values..... this condition is absolutely impossible to explain in a way for someone to understand. The younger I was, the more vivid, intense and terrifying. They did progress when I was 16 - that's when it would overwhelm me with what seemed like infinitesimal functions being constructed before my eyes. I say involuntarily, but at the same time it wasn't. I couldn't stop if I wanted to. Time would slow to a near halt - same with the algorithms and then speed up uncontrollable with streams of numbers that I would turn into equations and solve. My episodes would happen in the middle of the night. Night terror doesn't begin to describe. I would break out into coldsweats. And if someone was trying to talk to me i couldn't make out the words. They were either talking too fast, too slow, too loud, or just mute. When every thing went mute it would follow with a progressing static sound until it was deafening. Like static from a tv with the volume all the way times ten. I thought I was insane. Idk maybe I am, it's bittersweet that I'm not the only one and unfortunate that other ppl experience this. Interesting how doctors are clueless to it. What they do know is that under a cat scan during an episode every region of the brain is firing off. similar to what happens to the brain during seizures.
YES! 1000X yes! My hands and fingertips were huge, and the numbers and endless formulas were terrifying. It’s so hard to explain but you put it into words. I remember vomiting after these episodes. The numbers were the scariest part.
Yes similar effects, so everything moving fast, almost like repeating itself but without the visual repetition. Similar to fast heartbeat but without the heart rate increasing. Also things become heavier. Heavier to move, as if you are very aware that you are moving a mouse or typing on a keyboard with every tap. Walking while this happens feels like you put the food down already multiple times before you put the foot down on the ground to make another step. But all the thoughts are clear as they would be without the effect. Lasts between 5-20 minutes. With first 30 seconds to a minute increasing reaching its peak between 4-5 minutes and calming down on the 10th minute. From what I've been able to find online it is called Tachysensia. So nothing to worry about based on what is written about it. But I would not risk to drive a car while experiencing this.
I'm currently recovering from covid and yesterday I woke up at 4am having this uncomfortable feeling of an object getting heavier and heavier but I'm not seeing it. As I woke up it didn't go away but became worse and worse so I panicked and ran to the livingroom and just sat on the ground till it went away. One of the most terrifying experience I've ever had.
Sounds like maybe you experienced sleep paralysis. It is terrifying.
@@catrionamcloughlin6937 Isn't that where you cannot move your body while awake? I do remember that I was walking and awake but it did not stop, so I'm not sure.
Same, that's very terrible.
@@TH-cam..Enjoyer erm, the sense of something heavy being on your body, or someone/thing sitting on you is often reported in combination with sleep paralysis. I'm not sure if I understood your comment, was it *you* that you felt getting heavier, or something on you? If you remember.
Yeah, sleep paralysis is where you become conscious and your body is still asleep. I also can't tell if I'm managing to move or not, I'll try to move an arm, and it *feels* like my arm has moved to in front of my face, but I can *see* it's not there! So either how it feels or how it looks is wrong, or both. So confusing and frightening.
Watching this while experiencing this syndrome
I have sensory aws. I never knew it was a thing and no one believed me. Sometimes my phone feels like a laptop. I drive a truck and sometimes I feel like I'm a midget and the steering wheel is 5ft wide. Sometimes I feel giant and duck under things. Super weird feeling
Strangely enough from personal experience, when you realize that your body’s movement is the same as normal it’s just a visual thing, it makes it feel twice as trippy.
This used to always happen to me as a kid. I remember sitting watching TV and looking at my hands or feet thinking they felt really far away but the TV and the TV stand felt really big and too close. I currently have the flu as a 31 y/o Male and have experienced this again. Lying in bed with my hands together under my pillow which felt like a really tight grip even though it wasn’t and everything in the room felt so far away from me. Such a bizarre feeling.
I have it too and I hate it, every time I close and open my eyes when I go to sleep Everything feels so far away, I literally hate that feeling.
Yes I have it too! 😂 fortunately it's nothing but a strange experience. My microspia used to be random but now it's triggered whenever I use the rubix cube lol idk why?😂
@fdoge6991 dude that's the worst! I think I had microspsia once when I was asleep and I still remember thag horrifying dream to this day decades later
I had this multiple times. The last one arguing with my wife late at night.
I had one where i felt like i was watching myself sit on the couch from a black amd white TV.
This happened to me a few weeks ago. I’m 32! First time it happened I might have been 14.. It happens every few years! I thought I just might be crazy, with a lack of sleep! I’m just now trying to figure out what’s been happening, because this last time it happened, it lasted about 4mins (the longest time for me)! Thank you!
I also enter parallel dimensions at night.
I’m 14 and I have had this disorder for 11 years. Ever since I was little things would appear farther away than they actually were. This caused panic attacks and night tares. I just had one an hour ago which made me go to this video. For people who are watching who don’t experience this stuff you are very lucky. It’s been very rough on me and I’m sure on many others. In my experience this disorder has had phobias come along with this disorder. Including phobia of small holes and a phobia of large and small objects. Every where I look things seem really far away. I can see the tiny wholes in fabric and paint bumps on the walls. Seeing those usually triggers my night tares and panic attacks. I experience this disorder eyes open and closed. Even if I close my eyes things that appear in my mind still get farther away. When I say things are farther away I’m not talking about it’s just like zooming out. When I say they are getting farther away I mean like the wall doesn’t move but I just see it as farther away. It’s almost like it zooms into the wall to where I can see the tiny dots you can say and it feels as if the wall is actually huge and I’m really far away from it. This is extremely hard to explain and describe so I’m sorry if this makes no since. Another example is right now when I’m typing this comment. I can see the little tiny lights on my phones screen. I see them as little tiny dots. So in my mind it feels like I’m spectating in a giant and the phone and hands are ginormous and I’m like an ant. Anyways I’m kinda getting triggered so I’m going to stop. But last note to learn is that I can’t do anything about this. There are ways i have learned to cope with this but kk coping ways are actually going to stop it immediately. My experiences usually last around 10-20 minutes. I called this the far away s and I still do. Many other people have called it the far aways as well. So if you experience some things like this and I call it the far aways or something similar then you probably have Alice in wonderland syndrome but anyways. That’s my experience and I hope this educated some of you.
My thing is called teleopsia which is a type of Alice in wonderland disorder. The disorder has different types if they makes since. Like different symptoms. Some experience all 4 symptoms and some experience 1 symptom
@@jd_17gaming8 hiya, I experience the exact same and I did not know this was thing. I cannot believe what you've written has explained what I've suffered for years. I have never been able to put into words
@@rowenatoole5297 glad I could help :)
@@jd_17gaming8 I am 22 & still suffer this, the doctors are looking into if I have a rare form of epilepsy because I have deva ju a few times a day. Do you know what causes yours?
@@rowenatoole5297 mine just comes from what I think about or things around me. If i just look around my room at my walls it can trigger it. I can barely got to carnivals wihtout getting triggered by the spinning rides. The thing they triggers it the most is thinking about what triggers it. Also size comparisons every time they trigger me. People were talking about how small we are in the universe and someone said that the earth isn’t even a grain of sand. That triggered me big time. But yeah that stuff triggers me
damn I thought I was the only one with this.
To me it felt like there was a big alien ship on it's way to get me and it will come and you can't do anything against it
When I was a child I suffered with this really badly due to anxiety, it went on for years and the older I got I started suffering with chronic disassociation which terrified me even more, I'm 56 back then there wasn't a name for it and to accept it, I can control it now so it doesnt terrorise me the way it used to.
This has been happening to me when I was young. I honestly thought it happened when I got this after a horrible fever when I was young. I remember I was feeling like I was shrinking and growing. Everyone was either yelling or talking normal. I still experience this as an adult. I notice it’s usually when I’m in a sense of stress mode. Idk I always thought it was just me.
sounds like the first time i was high, my brain no work so good
I can feel room getting larger even when I close my eyes. Since childhood I got this. Then last year I was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy.
Hi Guys,
I'm 27 and feel like I had something like this but slightly different. See symptoms below:
- in my head I could see a person talking slowly but moving faster and faster over time
- my breathing felt super calm and fast
- i had headphones in so couldn't hear anything
- when I blinked it was really intentional and felt fast
- I can stop it by just speaking to someone and get back into the "real world"
Has any one felt this at all ? Do you think it is the same as the "fast feeling" suggested in the video.
The main different is that it doesnt feel like time moved faster (its only more intentional - like really present) but in my head everything is getting super fast and continually faster untill I break away.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Same here. You are not alone.
I’m 24 years old and currently going through AWID, it’s a horrible experience every time I look at my phone and become so small I can’t read anything.. faces and people look like play toys if I look up on the sun for a couple of seconds it goes away but it comes back sooner or later.. it makes me crazy headaches and migraines.. i’ve been only experiencing this for the last couple of weeks... I had it when I was younger when I was 7/8 years old.. then it only happened at night, now I’m having it at any time of the day.. I wish someone could help me but nobody understands what I’m going through that’s the most horrible feeling when People don’t believe you...
they don't believe us as they've not experienced it my dude, if you speak with somebody who has taken heavy doses of LSD, DMT or something, they'll understand you somewhat more, but this is an insanely rare "syndrome" apparently, we no nothing about it and there is no treatment that i'm aware of, and if there is.... thats a person trying to cure it by throwing random psychotropic meds at you hoping one will have a positive affect, nooo thank you. lol
My son is 7.5yo now, he has been experiencing seeing things small before bed for a month..I called doctor but she has no idea about the symptom. I am doing a lot of research and finally last night I got to know AIWS. I don't know how to help him sadly.
I'm 46 now and haven't had an epiaode in 8 yrs. They're shorter and much milder than ever. Last time I had an episode it lasted minute
Taking Sinus clearing and supporting herbs and eating organic fruits/vegetables and non-mucus forming foods (no meat, dairy, processed foods ect.. helped a lot.
Can relate to someone’s comment that it makes them feel like they are sleeping on a rock. For me on rare occasion (usually when I have a fever, even more so in a fever dream) it’s that mixed with the sensation that my teeth are shrinking, and my body balloons while my limbs deflate. Very disorienting when I’m awake and it happens. Other indescribable sensations along with it like all of the pores on my body deepen/widen while I roll forward on a big semi-smooth boulder 😅
Happens all at once.
I’ve had the FOV slide and zoom like you see in some movies for dramatic effect. Also, time slow down/speed up. Those only a handful of times. Not sure if this is aiws, but learning and reading comments about this triggers memories of those sensations.
I might have Alice in wonderland syndrome.My reflection in mirrors changes and one day I had no reflection.Animals are rejecting me for no apparent reason and I do astral projection and I have headaches all the time.
I’m also entering parallel dimensions at night.
I'm pretty sure I experienced this multiple times between the ages of 6 and 8. I had a bad concussion when I was 6 and thought maybe it was the cause. When lying in bed, my hands felt very big. Like balloons as in the Pink Floyd song. Sometimes my feet had the same sensation. Also the ceiling would look further away than it was. I felt very relaxed and at peace when this happened although at first it was a little scary. I'm 63 now and its only happened for a few very quick times since i was a child. I never heard of AWS until recently.
I used to have this quite frequently (Between once a week and twice a month, occasional periods of time it could be up to 3-4 times a week though) from 6 or 7 up until the age of about 15/16 (This was 2016 for reference) when i started to smoke weed pretty much every day and it stopped completely, around 18 months ago i decided to pack it in for the 1st time and within 3-4 days i started to find it coming back usually every 3-4 days as well, this persisted for around 2 months until i returned to my former habit and started smoking again. I quit again for this new years 2023, this time hopefully for a long while too, and within 3-4 days it started happening again. It is now 16 days into the new year and i have experienced this 4 times since, always at night, and have no idea as to why. I never even knew it was a thing until 18 months ago when an episode came on and a searched online for the symptoms i was experiencing and found that everything i read about AIWS matched up perfectly, I thought it was just a weird quirk of my own and never really questioned it as i'd always had it, usually I get that strange fast feeling but at other times I don't get that at all and it just feels like everything is extremely small and far away, yet close at the same time (?), It also appears i am far taller from my own perspective when looking at things around me. Anyone here also have any experience with weed and its effects in relation to this? Id be interested to hear if so as no forums ive found mention any correlation between. I also find that the frequency in which this happens is far less with most cases than what I am having right now and had as a child and I'd want to know if anyone else has/gets it this often.
This happens to me, ever since my coma but I kinda like it b.c I know it's not real. Stairways and steps look so far away or super close. My hands and arms look HUGE or tiny. The walls look like they're Waves. Sometimes everything looks like slow motion. Not all at once so I know it's my brain playing tricks.
I used to tune it out by changing Chanel’s on the TV
I lost the feeling of time as well, like i felt like skipped time and place even though i was in the same place
I have this, it is such a bizarre and uncomfortable feeling. Unfortunately, the only way to stop it is to open your eyes and sometimes you just need to focus on objects in your surroundings.
Also, for clarification, my symptoms are that everything feels really far away..
I used to ba able to slow down time around me at will when i was little, i know it wasn’t real but the longer it happend the sicker i felt and sometimes i would start to panick because i wasnt able to get it to stop. Peoples voices sounded so strange. I can’t believe i forgot about this until i watchad a rabbit hole video on youtube… this is crazy!!
Sometimes my fingers feel rlly big and heavy, or they feel like they’re not there. Or my teeth feel rlly big and round, and I was just holding my phone and it started feeling heavy and big. It’s so weird and it freaks me out loll
I feel like I may have this, is it something to go to the doctor about? I don’t want to make a fuss about something they may disregard.
nope. because nobody knows anything about this shit my dude, i've been looking into this for about 10 years + now on and off as i have it, nobody has a clue and we can't be helped l0l.
You can’t go to a doctor to this. I’m sorry to say this and I hope u don’t freak another but there is no cure to this. You just have to grow out of it. I have had this for 11 years and I’m 14 years old so I could have this until I’m 17 or have it until I’m 30 so it just depends but you can’t get rid of it. Something I will say is that over time occurrences will happen less but will still Happen when I was 3 to 7 they happened every night and happened multiple times a night. Now they occur like once a month if that. But it can change up really randomly.
I can always fix it if i refocus my eyes in a lit room then turn off the lights and try to sleep again
My visual perception changes and i feel scared all of a sudden. Even using my phone it looks large and far away. Idk how to explain but my senses get sharpened? Overall i feel so scared
I have landed here today due to my daughter's recent confession that this is happening to her. Objects increasing/decreasing in size and moving far/close. I am overwhelmed with this situation ... but reading all these comments makes me feel a bit better, so many people suffering from this disorder (and hopefully living normal lives) is a bit comforting right now. Any advice from parents or adult sufferers to help me cope or know what to do when she is having the episodes, would be appreciated.
I don't experience headache or migrain when I have this but I see everything pelopsia and teleopsia time slows down and vision gets zoomed out or in depending on it
I havnt had a headache since my appendix surgery
I'm 56yrs old and I have had these experiences all my life from childhood and not said anything about them, I do not get Migraines or anything else' I'm fit and healthy, I have the ability to turn it on and off when I wish, I can get so deep and far away it gets a bit scarey so I turn it off, but I have not reached past the scarey bit, yet!?
Hiya, I am 22 & still having these. I thought everyone had it until recently. I've always had it since I can remember. I cannot believe people are managing to put it into words as I've never been able to. I to do not have migraines
@@rowenatoole5297 Welcome (:
Do you ever feel like you’re going to go crazy
@@kimberlymarquez727 Not crazy, but more out of control if you let it and think to much about it, so just relax with it and go with the flow (;
I had this happen to me a feel times growing up ages 10-13. Just felt like all actions, sounds, movements, even thoughts would gradually go faster and faster. To confirm my feelings, I would always go to the bathroom and turn on the faucet and hear the water sound pour louder and louder. I haven't had any episodes until this morning as I was on my computer focus working on a design. I automatically reconnected with the feeling. This time around at the age of 35 I am now more aware of what is real and my surroundings. I allowed it to happen for a few minutes then After I called someone to explain my feelings and after it started to settle down. It's crazy that we don't have more of an Idea why this happens to us. Wish there was more testing on it. Just very curious 🤔
Experienced today and had the same sensation of this syndrome after many many years when I was a small child, as a kid I used to see my hands growing longer and could reach objects far away. Today I got to know it’s a syndrome when I searched the internet.
I usually just feel really big compared to the room
When i was little I had symptoms like these when i was really tired. My room would feel really big and everything would seem far away. I would be surprised when i coulr reach things that were actually right next to me. This doesn't happen anymore, but I was wondering if that was normal. I don't think that it is alice in wonderland syndrome, because it barely ever happened.
Did anyone else come across this while trying to look up the effects of mk ultra programming?
Perfect 👌🏻
I had this when I was 10-12. Everything would feel too thin with a few things feeling too thick. Anything I would grab or touch would feel way too thin, especially round things, even my forearms felt too thin! It all looked the same and wasn't warped in any way except for my fingers which would look too thin. I would usually take a shower and that would help me get through it for some reason, but I can remember this one time where the water was also too thin, which ended up making the episode way worse, and then they just suddenly stopped happening one day and I have not had another episode since, although I have noticed that if I think too hard about things being too thin they would feel just slightly too thin for a second, writing this gave me it for a couple seconds as well.
I came to this video because I was doing research. I have Kjer’s optic atrophy and as a result, everything I see is smaller, not blurry, but smaller. I wear glasses so I can.bring things a tad closer.
Anyone has that feeling when u look at something it's goes far away and smaller
I'm particularly interested in anybody who heard what sounded like somebody whispering and yelling at them. If you were a male, did you hear a male voice? And if you were female, did you hear a female voice?
Yes, I am female and I hear a female whispering and yelling
for me it was my grandpa yelling watching sports in the room over. i called my grandma to tell him to stop yelling and she was dumbfounded. “hes not yelling or talking” but it sounded like he was maniacally yelling and laughing at the game. VERY loud!! but also everything seemed to be of a whisper
I've experienced the whispers a few times. Too many voices to tell the genders. Sounded like they were In a tunnel. Getting louder and louder as they would approach. The sounds wouldn't come from a particular direction they would just get louder- too loud to discern if they were voices anymore, i would gear the loud TV static. Loud TV static is something I experienced every time.
I see things smaller, I was born this way glasses, correct to proper vision +8.25 add +2.00
it makes me feel like im sleeping on a rock.
Wow, yeah that’s such a good way to put it. I could never figure out how to describe that feeling.
Hi, I'm Daniel and I believe I have AIWS, every time I go to sleep, things suddenly feel more far away, and that makes me stress a lot, its still happening to me, last night it happened too, I am sick right now too, but sometimes even worse, when I feel like a heavy object is getting heavier but its not there, I don't know how to explain, but its very terrible to happen.
Just had an intense episode. Time went really really fast. No pain but really weird.
i think its a superpower guys
I can't sleep. Things keep getting smaller and zooming out. Anyone have similar experiences?
If any one is having the derealization/ panic attacks from this I was for years I had the most severe derealization doctors have ever Hurd before they tryed so many different medications noting worked until I tryed Zoloft which is a miracle drug I been on it for years now and it’s helps with my sever anxiety and when I get a Alison wonderland episode I don’t panic no more b/c of the zolft
Can this also be an audio thing? The cerebral part makes sense.
ive been having this for years since my teenage that time i thought i had a vision problem i always tell my mom maybe i need glasses, now im 30 years old, it happened to me just today so i came again looking for more information about, because today it got worst, it usually takes few minutes but this afternoon it took way longer than before. it doesnt happen everyday, sometimes i dont experience it for months. ive discovered something is that everytime i drink too much coffee it happen, i dont usually drink coffee but sometimes when i sleep just 3 or 4 hours i do drink coffee at work, i dont know why but everytime it happened to me ive had coffee and im more sure about this today
welp, that explains everything
I love that feeling 😂
I feel like my hands and mouth are huge. It began after vaccination for C-19. Don’t have any other probable cause.
This used to happen to me when I was 6-10 I had a concussion when I was very young like 5 and I think that might have been why, When I have a episode which This is the first time I have had one Since I was like 8 I’m 16 now I feel like things move so fast Everything I do is moving super fast, Like my body starts moving fast just time in general is moving fast my hands my legs eveything if I have a song in my head it starts going fast, and eveything gets really aggressive and feels like shocked like i’m in shock and words and movements feel aggressive and music and when I was like 6 I would keep seeing like a plain peach just get bigger and bigger and then shrink into like a small like pencil thing I don’t even know how to explain it Hope this helps some of yall
I'm convinced I have it...it has happened about 3 times. I had woke up to my room being HUGE and elongated. It felt like a dream, with muted colors and very fuzzy.
Happened thrice in a week now 😭
@@ritikaritu3089 that sucks man
What happens when your having migraines/head pains & have lesions in Parietal lobe but they dunno if your having seizures too due to other symptoms? That’s where I’m at. Haven’t gotten EEG yet. I am on seizure med though cuz migraine meds didn’t do anything. Prior to the head pains starting months ago & new symptoms making me think
I had a brain tumor all the sudden….i had long history of other weird stuff & kept getting diagnosed with sleep related disorders & panic attacks. Now after doing some research……it appears I have like every symptom of parietal lobe epilepsy
Now my lesions aren’t structural lesions. They’re white matter lesions. So the migraines could be actually causing that, no idea. My family dr didn’t seem to know 100% but he’s also not a neurologist. He’s the one that ordered the MRI. He said that’s probably the case but that not all of my symptoms would be caused by migraines
He had started treating me though because he knew how long it takes to get into the neurologist (i was already misdiagnosed once before the head pains started as well). But he also said I’d prob need to get an EEG done if this Topamax didn’t work
I get like 50 diff symptoms that come and go at diff times. Prob due to having complex migraines overlapping now. Really bad staring spells, speech issues, stroke-like symptoms, weakness, electrical sensations, tingling, floating, face melting, finger tip pain, head tinging, crawling sensations, neuropathy, burning, vertigo, blurred/double vision, time slowing down, losing time, impaired awareness, facial spasms, muscle tension/twitching, depth perception (shrinking/growing), saw someone’s eye fall down their face once, rapid blinking/eye movements, nausea, overwhelmed by stupid stuff, etc. It’s like an acid trip half the time.
Well shit , so i don’t get migraines when it happens and it’s happened since I was about six or eight . Laying in bed looking at my blinds and I swear they were so tiny I could crush them with my fingers and I felt so out of place . Didn’t happen to often maybe a few times a year . I’ve had three migraines in my life , they are horrible and I start tripping out but I take aspirin and ibprofrin and as quick as I can I stumble blindly holding my head trying to see thru the blackness to find some type of vibrational/frequency migraine music on TH-cam cause that shit works without a doubt ! But I started having disassociation when I eleven , walked all the way home from school and didn’t remember it and didn’t snap out of it til a car honked at me . I started having dejavu around the same time too . I had all sorts of test done and I had some signaling issues in my left thalamus but that didn’t happen til a car accident . I was diagnosed with paranoia schizophrenia for the noises and faint talking “in another room “ I was having off and on and the overwhelming feeling of someone watching me all the time and or god or an angel trying to talk to me or control me or some shit . So I still don’t know wtf causes that feeling . I do get a home sick type feeling a lot and that’s the worst ! Anyone know what that is about ?
Off-topic here, OK I’m diagnosed with far so I didn’t without my glasses I can see everything perfectly and things of clothes good but everything goes small so of course things are a little blurry right now because I’m not John Greenman getting older just some pumpkin blurring things out here
I only have it in my left eye
Call me stupid but I wish I could experience this and any type of terrifying hallucination since I find them so fascinating.
It's only tactile for me, absolutely no visual aspect
that possible or something else?
Few ppl get hallucinations. I'd get vivid hallucinations during episodes
Same with me except for my fingers or other long rounded objects. My fingers would actually look too thin while everything around me just felt too thin.
I'm 17y and I've seen everything surround me looks smaller than they actually are since I was 5y.
Can anyone tell me what is my symptoms ?
Does anyone have this 24/7?
why does everything spin in a circle
how many in chat who have it has had a head injury.
I have this syndrome it's not fun
Yea, but what causes it?
Wdym? Most people just get it randomly at any age but mostly when your young I’m 14 and had it since I was 3 I along with my parents and doctors have no clue how I got it but I still have it and I’m gonna have it for a long ways to come
I have migraine. Sometes vertigo too. This too caused by migraine. I do have typical white flash auras for 10 mins accompanied with hours of extreme pain killing headache. Those days just put me to bed like nothing. I pray bef every exam I shouldn't get one. Or atleast I shd cross the aura stage to atleast b able see questions properly. I'm in clg. These whole thing happens rarely. But these AIWS syndrome everything around me suddenly looks small. Happens Freq and vertigo too (feel like the whole place is spinning... I.e. rotating). I get scared.