Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

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[@greta8849]

this sounds like the visuals of a Dextromethorphan trip

[@DMSteeley]

I get these feelings sometimes when I'm trying to fall asleep, happened way more often when I was a kid.

[@moggers7903]

DMSteeley yeah same I used to feel like my limbs were changing size, and I’d get it several times per week as a kid. Last time I got it was last year, the first time in several years

[@thanhvinhnguyento7069]

Me too. Plus once I felt like my parents stand meters away when they were really right beside me in bed

[@lasphynge8001]

Me to ! It happened more frequently when I was a kid but still happens fairly regularly, especially when I'm very tired or about to fall asleep.

[@nicherme4775]

@@lasphynge8001 im exactly the same, 90% of the time it's when im tired or in bed. Hands, feet feel massive and body small then it may change to the opposite but it's more of a dull feeling Unless you have had it it's very hard to explain and I feel most of these videos don't do it justice to what is actually happening

[@fdhgklhvuds]

@@nicherme4775 Exactly the same for me. In every way.

[@KaliTakumi]

I have this. Sometimes I think there's policemen at my door yelling at me about being wanted for "tax evasion". But it usually goes away after I skip town and change my name.

[@clockwinder2924]

@ Kali Takumi 🤣

[@kagney13]

This. Was. Awesome.

[@greta8849]

thats not alice in wonderland syndrome. that's TAX EVASION

[@itsjustlukeRevive]

A rare case. Kali Avoiding Taxes Syndrome... Very severe.

[@teknofreak2387]

*theft evasion

[@fableagain]

Oh, alright. Turns out I had this as a kid, then. Sometimes when I laid in bed it would seem like the room was super big and I was super tiny, and the walls were very far away. It was super scary and I always hated it. It helped to lay flush with the wall, to remind myself that I could still reach a wall to begin with, but it didn't make it any less frightening. It happened most often when I had a fever, but also sometimes when I didn't have a fever at all.

[@jash2151]

I have it too

[@sabinaalic5948]

I had the exact same experience

[@horimiya7149]

You're not alone bro.

[@nicole-ob9pl]

👍 me too

[@myfirstvideotothegachacomm5880]

every child literally had high imagination and watched cartoons, that's why this happened to you and almost all the children , don't disagree that's the truth, your not special in any type of way, be happy that you were born a healthy human.

[@grooingforgwsn]

Thank god this showed on my rec feed. This is a forgotten childhood memory and im kinda just glad that it's not just me who experienced this. Never thought it had a name.

[@dracopiia]

Yo this used to scare me so much when i was really young I'd feel like my hands were huge and that my bed would rise and fall Stuff on the walls would grow and shrink And it was like someone in my head was whispering and screaming at the same time Im so glad that I eventually grew up and out of that

[@reecemc6214]

But It Was Me, Dio Christ man this is the exact same thing that used to happen to me! Hit the nail on the head, a loud man screaming abuse but couldn’t make out what the words are

[@dracopiia]

@@reecemc6214 Holy crap! It's really comforting to know that someone else's been through almost the exact same.

[@isacarrion9340]

The whispering and screaming used to happen to me too, and has happened in my twenties. It's really unsettling.

[@averageitguy]

Exactly the same happened Even a small sound sounda so loud... I was scared that i was having a brain tumor

[@hellofriend7416]

@@averageitguy Your brain being able to do something different, always doesn't mean you have a serious bad problem. It's just that your brain acts differently and has kinda a small problem but chances of something serious is less

[@6fingerfist325]

I like that everyone in the comments has this rare condition.

[@wilton999]

Há

[@sollima4528]

People who have the condition would be more interested in watching it. You don't have a random sample group here.

[@PatRiot-]

I dated a girl who was diagnosed with this condition because she was seeing objects on the wall distort in size and distance (of course no illegal drugs invoved) My mom secretly made fun of her for it because there is little external explanation for it except she claimed her vision would go crazy for a time and things would distort....(not the best explanation but that’s what I got from it) not much to go off of when you appear completely healthy though I’m sure what she was experiencing was quite real The doctors pretty much sent her home- I don’t remember hearing about any medication or anything....was just kinda like the end of Napoleon dynamite.....now what? 12 years later this is kind of some closure as there was little info on the topic then and very vague at that

[@Jordan-cd3ce]

Rare could mean anything. If rare is 1% of people, then that means 77 million people would have experienced it.

[@bailey-maywalker4344]

Lmao

[@wolky8176]

I'm mindblown. I experienced this as a child, quite commonly. Horrible feeling. So glad it wore off. I will send this to my mother so she finally knows what was up with that. Thank you!

[@Smellisd]

This just blew my mind and actually made me quite emotional. I had this as a kid and it was horrifying, so nice to see I’m not alone

[@davidaIano]

I'm seeing a lot of epstein recently.

[@avakining]

*looks at **2:00*

[@custos3249]

Dude......you're looking into a mirror.....

[@randomdude9135]

Me too

[@Lyle-xc9pg]

@Deborah Meltrozo lol, idiots still think he killed himself

[@puddingninja]

@@Lyle-xc9pg Barr investigated him

[@osrea8924]

I think I might have felt these “feelings” before but it’s so close but also so far.. it’s a weird illusion.

[@thatrandomcat3479]

Yeah it feels so real. Its like you just teleported into a new world for a few sec or minutes.

[@babsllamas3579]

YES ITS JUST A FEELING

[@babsllamas3579]

LIKE i could never explain it

[@funniful]

I had this as a child...symptoms persisted periodically into 30s....mostly when coming down with a cold. This leads me to think it’s got viral roots.

[@CapriUni]

I also had these as a kid -- from what I remember, mostly between the ages of 4 and (around) 12 (??). I'm in my 50's now, so it's been a while. I don't think it was associated with colds, but they always happened just as I was falling asleep at night, or waking up in the morning. … So maybe I was half-smothering myself with my blankets or pillow? I also started getting migraines as a teenager. So maybe it has multiple causes (which wouldn't surprise me, given how complex our wetware is)

[@AveryMilieu]

@Benghazi gaming I had something like as a kid. Never mentioned it. You enjoy trolling people, publicly dismissing them makes you feel good, doesn't it?

[@shorb2289]

felt stuff like this when I was sick my hands felt huge or off and also my blankets felt super heavy everything was off

[@funniful]

Benghazi gaming It was not a self diagnosis. I was nine years old. My parents took me to doctors. Coincidentally, about 14 years later, my nephew was also diagnosed with AIWS.

[@ItsShatter]

Nah man that’s just cause your brain was cooking with a fever lol

[@RonWorthyTheChannel]

It happened to me when I was younger. From the age of 3 to 10 . I called it “Fear”. I didn’t know what it was but I was really scared. It lasted like 5-20 minutes. I still remember crying so hard from that. Because everything was going bigger and smaller than what it actually was. Even when you close your eyes, it went on. I saw that thing a lot before going to sleep or before catching cold. Like 13 times in general. I knew that I couldn’t do anything about it but I’m thankful for my parents who were there with me and supported me. Now I’m 20 but I haven’t experienced anything of that since 10 years old. Looks like I grew out of it.

[@JKahu-ue9mm]

Did you ever imagine noises and they'd get louder inside your head? I had this along with what you explained. I'm actually the same age as you too, trippy we experienced these episodes around the same times

[@RonWorthyTheChannel]

J. Kahu true and we all are from different countries and cultures. I’m from Kazakhstan. So that’s interesting

[@myfirstvideotothegachacomm5880]

No it didn't, you were dizzy.

[@myfirstvideotothegachacomm5880]

Or just had a high imagination, or your eyes were creating imaginary things from the heat of the sun (if you were outside mornjng) your not special.

[@abbyward7958]

@@JKahu-ue9mm yes!! I’ve been tryna find someone who felt that too. To me it was this feeling of intensity getting stronger and louder like that old movie sound that used to scare kids because it would get so loud, it was like that but not exactly. It was just pure intense emotion pounding louder and louder and it scared the living hell outta me

[@nasdan5000]

This used to happen to me all the time when I was a kid. My hands would feel huge and heads on the TV looked really small. I never understood what was going on at the time.

[@whoopsydaizy]

I've got chronic migraines and experience this. Things will either seem too big, too small or too far away.

[@DoctorElliottCarthy]

Yas, it's really common with migrainous aura

[@PatRiot-]

Not the Aura /:

[@whatever9097]

I’ve had migraines since I was 9 or 10 and during attacks (especially when I was younger) this happens

[@duckplushie8421]

Me too, it usually is things like feeling my legs as really short or my arms as way bigger that they are and then as skinny as a pencil, or just feeling that I am shrinking and everything else is too big... Also feeling like time goes too fast but not as losing track of time, more as why we going so FASST (it happens with songs)

[@rafiy7150]

not as bad as the zigzag flashy blind spit tho

[@purplealice]

"When I was a child, I had a fever - my hands felt just like two balloons; Now I've got that feeling once again... I have become comfortably numb."

[@be7th]

Aaah you caught it before I did ^^"

[@purplealice]

@@be7th I'm one of those annoying people to whom all of life is a song cue.I used to work in radio, and my brain is full of thousands of songs, some of which are older than I am.

[@NickRoman]

@@purplealice , my mom used to be like that.

[@elcaspo6782]

You just blew my fuckin mind man

[@PatRiot-]

I read “when I was a child” And then I hoped it was what I thought it was 😂

[@CamzeeHD]

When I was a kid I used to lie in my bed and my room was dimly lit by a nightlight. Sometimes my room would seem to start to shrink and the walls and windows would begin to come towards me and I'd start to get slight anxiety. Only lasted a few seconds.

[@mooselove]

When I was a child I had some pretty bad trauma. After that when ever I was feeling highly stressed the room would distort and stretch, my fussing father would grow a giant head and hands, i would panic and his anger would grow. It happens rarely now, but still happens. It’s terrifying. I also have dissociative/derealization along with my anxiety and panic.

[@andreas40588]

I woke up with this today for the first time since I was around 10. Now I'm 30. When I experienced this as a kid, I felt very isolated and scared, so It's always lingered in my mind that I hope it doesn't happen again. I've never shared this, but today I found an article and it relieved me I'm not alone. I'll try to explain it in detail since I just experienced it: 1. I feel a tingeling in my body, my mind races fast and I'm very confused of what is going on. 2. I stare into the void, but I'm not processing what I see, instead I get scared and fascinated at the same time. I feel my fingers with my hand, they feel very big or very small, but I'm not sure which. I feel all my fingers again and again, they feel thin as chopsticks, but at the same time 1 finger alone fills my entire palm. It's like they alternate in size. There is some additional emotion in play, one I can't explain. 3. My tounge is heavy and moves very slow. As it touches my teeth, I realize they have grown and I't feels like I spend all my processing power trying to understand it. I feel the teeth in great detail, and travelling from far left tooth to far right tooth with my tounge seems to take a long time. I do it again, again, again, trying to increase the speed, and get a little more frustrated and puzzeled/scared every time. 4. I'm starting to explore ways to make it stop. I try to sit up, and realize I was in a trance or paralysis. I get my normal thought process back, as if my brain was busy or stuck, and I feel like like I've had a fever, I'm cold, and my arms are numb, stomach hurts a little. Slowly recovering, and after around half an hour, I'm now starting to feel normal.

[@flbartlett]

I called my episodes "The Dream". I experienced the impossibly distant, then close visual illusions, accompanied by a high pitch squeal that would follow the visual illusions, impossibly faint and high pitched to overwhelmingly loud. There was also a sense of body weight and size oscillating from tiny to huge. My "fix" was to watch TV close to the screen. Often without a broadcast signal since it was usually after the broadcast day was done. Last full episode was when I was fifteen in 1975. Had a few less intense episodes through my twenties, and the last time at around thirty five. My sister had them too, and her grandson has them.

[@andreas40588]

@@flbartlett Truly facinating, I hope I can experience it again some day even if it's weird and a bit scary, I feel like we are lucky to tap into something unknown. thanks for sharing!

[@PatRiot-]

I dated a girl who was “diagnosed” with this when I was about 16 She was overall a very normal girl But occasionally would see things get larger and smaller suddenly like objects on the wall Very odd as she would have them in random spouts without much explanation or connection And not often at all But the doctor called it Alice in Wonderland syndrome Which I hardly took seriously until today when I saw this video

[@kakarot5219]

You just described me😶

[@JJHurst]

Had this since childhood , most common on falling asleep but on very rare occasion happens waking, it’s always a distortion of scale and distance of surroundings, things look bigger but further away ... It’s odd but I’ve become so used to it I do think about it anymore , incidents have become rarer I have gotten older , approaching my 50’s the last time it happened was a couple of years ago.

[@pe6ce703]

Ive had ive had this before, when i was around 10 or 11 ive felt my fingers like fat sausages and seconds later they would become as thin as a toothpick and 1 time my dad had the tv on with a guy playing a guitar and his voice sounded weird, it would alternate volume, i just assumed i felt sick or that i was too tired, that was i think when It was really strong but it kept happening over the course of 4 years ,yesterday is when i had my most recent “episode” and thats when i realized this probably isnt normal and its not just happening to me so i went online and researched for hours and encountered other people that had it, i researched if it was dangerous but I still havent gotten a straight answer

[@hop-skip-ouch8798]

I never had this. Since everyone is explaining their side.

[@officiallolnick]

You’re lucky. It’s terrifying as a kid to experience it

[@samuelluisdelespiritusanto7343]

@@officiallolnick My experience was I'm small and next day I'm big, the open space in the room is suddenly wider than normal, and all of it was more curious than creepy. That is, until I experienced depersonalization (not disorder [I hope] ) and it was someone else on the mirror. Really creepy

[@wantsomecandies73]

Yes that's very scary and horrifying especially when you get that things at night.

[@SGTRandyB]

As a kid and even teen, I experienced things ‘seeming very far away” on rare occasions, as if looking through a telescope backwards exactly as she described. Particularly if sick, and even more so if feverish. AS exactly as described, it seems I grew out of it. It has never occurred as a an adult.

[@wompstopm123]

i had this mildly when i was a kid and had a severe fever, it felt like my fingers where long wooden logs and i could touch anywhere in the room from my bed

[@homosexualamphibian359]

I never knew there was a name for what I went through as a child

[@fredrikjohansson]

As a kid I got this every time I got the flu. Remember once when I was thirsty but I didn’t want to get water, because it was at the other side of the room, miles away. When I walked there I moved at super speed. My arms and head also felt swollen and enormous. Sometimes it felt like I filled the whole room.

[@holden6525]

I had this as a child. Glad some ones talking about this bizarre condition.

[@Alpine_Joe]

Incredible the number of people (including me) who have had (and often still have) this and never knew it. I knew I had something going on but I was hard put to describe it and since it wasn’t a huge problem, I never mentioned it to anyone.

[@bloodsunsubs]

I’m really glad these people are helping others understand AWS and the symptoms I was diagnosed with this when I was 4 or 5 and mostly I Experience everything going fast, and things look small, my hands also fell numb and heavy I had a different type of this last night, and it scared me SO bad that I ran into my mom’s room crying :(

[@Magnymbus]

I get stuff like this when I go to sleep. I start to feel both as big as a house and small as a mouse. Like I could reach out from my bed and close the door without getting up, but at the same time, I was so small that I was smaller than my pillow. Or that my bed was a mile wide and my arm was just as long. Almost all of them are the "big and small at the same time" type. Honestly, it kinda helps me sleep by putting me in an imaginative mood.

[@Nugetz333]

That's hypnagogic hallucination

[@EfficientEngine]

I have this, occasionally my hearing will get super sensitive and things get smaller and far away. I rarely experience it these days.

[@bsd103]

I used to get this frequently as a child, sometimes the auditory affects were so dramatic I'd experience a bit of a panic attack. I still occasionally get the "things getting small and far away even though they're close" thing. Sometimes correlated with stress, sometimes not. Do you also experience ASMR?

[@ozaram1764]

Try looking at your fangers for a while. Actually focus and im sure itll happen again. That how it happens with me, sometime randomly.

[@AdamSandlerOfficial]

Sometimes when I get super stressed or tired I get a mix of second long migraines and start feeling like I have super powers with everything passing by faster, feeling more sensitive, and everything getting louder.

[@toosexy4399]

Me too and it feels like I'm having panic attacks. It's really scary

[@gunungmerapiapi1933]

Most of the time, I hate seeing people talking on my infomercial video, but this is educating and you have amazing way of captivating your audience, ma'am 👍

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

I used to get this as a child when I had a fever. It goes away the next day. Strangest dreams happen too.

[@jagwindersingh3254]

I also in childhood How to relieve this problem???

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

@@jagwindersingh3254 You grow out of it.

[@PlatypusGB]

This happened to me a lot more when I was a kid, it would actually distort my perception of sound, time and feeling which was horrific to experience. Time would often be slightly too fast, the ground would crease up so anywhere I walked felt like a pile of clothes and sounds were too loud and fast, often I would sit down and I would hear things coming towards me, for example one night I experienced it and remember hearing running coming towards the door next to me. I also experienced the walls grow and shrink like many others.

[@xicodread]

Same with me bro. Time distortion. First time i had 10yrs old with an infection, and now at 30s i feel it with stressfull moments while working. I am with you.... Its so hard to explain to people how time looks to be faster, everything you hear or moving its to damn fast. Just searching about this right now cuz never felt was an issue, but is being quit annoying.

[@mr.personhumanson6871]

1:10 yep I've experienced that as a child

[@mysteryman303]

i was actually afraid of telling anyone about what i experienced once in a while, about my hands ballooning and in the first 10 to 20 seconds of the episode i would go crazy about the feeling before realizing that my mind is making these up. even today when im 21 years old, i suddenly experience them sometimes when i stare into the computer screens for long periods along with the migraine aura symptom. now that i know that it might be related, i guess i have to go check a doctor, its really annoying for 10 to 15 minutes straight to look at my hands to check every second that they arent big. and the things around me are small.

[@Merto6]

When I was little I had these periods where I could hear what others will say a second before they say it.

[@zoloswaqqer]

Merto6 me too I have this coincidences too and auditory hallucinations I’m hyper sensitive/vigilant and I have vivid imagination to the point where my dreams are realistic and when I wake up I forget that it was a dream

[@Vladdyboy]

I had these hallucinations a lot when I was a kid (ages 4-7) and always as I was trying to fall asleep, I only found out years later what was going on with me... and only after browsing Wikipedia in my early adult years. It turns out that the growing brain of a child can sometimes cause these things to occur, at least that's my reasoning. I would see wood patterns start warping into human figures, I would see objects becoming larger and trying to attack me, and one night, I saw paper white fat pot bellied children running around naked behind the living room's foggy window. I screamed at the top of my lung for my parents.

[@quinntessential._]

I remember experiencing something like this once when I was small, I woke up at night and was heading to the toilet, but suddenly my wardrobe looked like it stretched and was as tall as a skyscraper... What's interesting is, I was diagnosed with Epilepsy when I was 14 so that may be the reason? idk

[@ColeyDuncan]

I think this would be scarier than drugs. With drugs, you know you took them and that can help keep you from freaking out. But when there's no known reason for you to be hallucinating, that sounds truly scary.

[@mjp3990]

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)

[@oslidd]

ohh cool i also hear everything super aggresively when it happens

[@Zanthorr]

I love it when it happens. I feel tiny and disconnected from my massive body. Breathing in air feels like a giant gust of wind traveling through a cave.

[@raeraebadfingers]

This is interesting. I've had instances where when I am looking at someone they suddenly seem so so far away. Like ten feet suddenly looks as if it is fifty feet. Happened before I ever contracted mono. How interesting.

[@eoincampbell1584]

Since I was a teen I've had brief episodes where everything seems to move in the same rhythm. As in, things that are slow will seem to go faster and things that go fast will seem to go slower. This is accompanied with an auditory thing where everything will sound like it's right next to me. I haven't been able to find anything matching the specific symptoms but a year ago I looked up Alice in Wonderland Syndrome and it is the closest thing to my experience.

[@yesididthis1420]

Try reading synesthesia maybe you'll find something there.

[@trevinbeattie4888]

Reminds me of some strange sensations I had when I was a kid, I think typically when I was feeling a little under the weather. I've never been able to reproduce those feelings after growing up, and I don't remember it well enough to describe any more.

[@Eunseo-og4ud]

I had this syndrome since I was 3 and somehow I still have it even now. It used to scare me so much but over the years, I began to learn to cope with it. But to be completely honest, I was so traumatized when this first happened to me that I still remember it 12 years later.

[@InfansDeAter]

Oh! This really explains those weird times I had as a child when it would seem that my bed was small enough to pick up with just to fingers.

[@hypno_bunny]

So, that must be what Roger Waters from Pink Floyd was talking about in Comfortably Numb. "When I was a child I had a fever. My hands felt just like two balloons."

[@tear728]

This is very hard to describe. It's more a feeling than a perception - everything feels far away

[@jonbrodie1442]

When you're on drugs you can still usually tell what is an illusion and what's not, so it does seem similar to hallucinations induced by drugs.

[@malenyluna5275]

I agree

[@JonahPleatherbooth]

Aye. I've had some pretty intense psychedelic induced hallucinations but am always aware of their true nature. Even as I engage in a conversation with the beings in front of me I know they're not real.

[@DaHALOSHOCK]

I too have this, it’s the strangest thing as the room stretches as your own arms and hands become smaller while also being fully aware nothing in the world has changed, it’s almost like your FOV field of view gets set to 250 and a few minutes or seconds later it’s gone and you won’t have it happen again for months or years...

[@monsterram6617]

I had this same thing when I dropped acid and did shrooms. It went away, though.

[@uniqhnd23]

Doesn't matter. Your case and theirs is different.

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

@@uniqhnd23 nice grammar Einstein

[@uniqhnd23]

@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 Damn didn't even notice that. Thanks Newton.

[@sigiluvsu]

I used to get this when I was a child; whenever I had a fever, I would experience myself getting too big, or everything being too close or too far away. My hands and head would be the wrong size and my wallpaper would move. It's how I knew I was really sick, but I never told my mum. I now realise they were probably febrile hallucinations resulting in Alice in wonderland syndrome, as they resolved within hours. It was absolutely terrifying! And I'm so glad I no longer have them!

[@TheGreatMunky]

"My head feels like a frisbee. Twice its normal size."

[@lillierose5304]

Sometimes when a person is talking to me and I'm looking at them and listening for a long period of time, they start to drift away and get smaller. I have to look away and blink a couple of times and then I look back at them and they look normal again. I wonder what this is.

[@be7th]

When I was a child I had a fever, my hands felt just like two balloons. Now I've got that feeling once again, I can't explain you would not understand, this is not how I am. I have become comfortably numb.

[@delsi26]

This used to happen loads when I was a bit younger it still occurs occasionally, but I remember whenever it would happen it would feel like everyone’s face was shaped like a tube

[@kenziefallen5200]

When I was younger I would feel really tall or really short so when I found out my real height I was always confused

[@neonz2712]

When I was 8 years old, there was about a week long period where I heard voices even if I was completely alone. It hasn’t happened again since.

[@fortheloveofLDS]

Brit you are so talented! I'm taking a science communication course right now and you have everything down so well. I hope I can be as skilled as you one day.

[@unkleturpis9253]

I'm 45, don't get migraines, have narcolepsy in my family line, don't take even over the counter meds if I can help it, and still occasionally have this issue. Narrowing of widening of paths, particularly roads, limbs looking farther away or closer to me randomly, garbling of other's speech, and a variety of other sensory oddities. It's entertaining and disconcerting at the same remove.

[@OfficialPrettyLittleLiars]

Sometimes whenever I look at people giving a lecture, they start looking smaller and the room gets bigger. Also, sometimes when drifting off towards sleep, my room starts feeling bigger and I feel smaller and heavier. Both happen very rarely and I’ve been experiencing it since I was young. Glad to see you guys covering this!

[@VariousPond]

This happened to me when I caught the colds as a kid. And this happened before I threw up, very nauseous-inducing. Glad it went away.

[@PeterAnthonyMartins]

I'm also having an hallucination now. I'm seeing Brie Larson as the presenter. I wonder if I'm the only one.

[@AlfredPotterGuitar]

I used to get teleposia (like looking through the wrong end of binoculars) every night as a child. Now it only happens to me when I am extremely tired + focused on something. Its occurrence is dropping in frequency as I age, though.

[@missscythe]

I had this when I was a kid and still have it

[@truedani261]

It sounds like something I've experienced as a child a few times, it started by me feeling that my head is like 2-3 times bigger than normal, the weight being to big for me to lift my head from the pillow, like feeling every cell of my skull pressing on me, at the same time every little noise in the room would provoke me pain, or rather discomfort, that was worse than any kind of pain I've experienced till now. I think that rather then being a rare syndrome, it's something that is rarely reported, I never told somebody because while in that state I only wished for it to end and also I was unable to speak properly, after that I would rather not remind myself about the experience and never told my parents or something, nonetheless it was a very rare experience and after a while it never happened again.

[@malenyluna5275]

Maybe there is more to it.

[@bacon8353]

I think that's a stroke

[@miehosd.silverwall5267]

There are moments when I perceive any sounds that I'm hearing to have some sort of a similar tune(like all sounds are being spoken with excitement, including non-human sounds). It doesn't happen often and goes away after a few minutes but I'm experiencing it from my childhood up to now(I'm in my 20s). Nobody around me(or at least all those that I shared it with) experiences the same thing. Now, I know that it is an auditory version of this syndrome... Or not?

[@elfymcelferton2187]

I wonder if similar parietal lobe dysfunction plays a role in the distorted body images of those with eating disorders.

[@spannycat2]

Can confirm. At 16, experienced AIWS, but since I was also anorexic and malnourished, they attributed it to poor diet and psychiatric induced body dysmorphia. But I just had another episode today at 28, and I'm defs not malnourished or anorexic or body dysmorphic.

[@megaeliminator3260]

for me this has existed ever since I was born 1st stage : my field of view increases making me see everything is really far or I am really big 2nd stage : i have a kind of ringing in my ears and cant hear anything with distorted voices 3rd stage : time slows and the pain lasts more long 4th stage : spikes come out of my body and it feels like my bones are breaking and coming out of my throat

[@LesleyWrightWhitmell]

Brit looks really good in this video :)

[@timsaxon5825]

I had this all the time as a kid. Then again as an adult during job interviews, which wasn’t very helpful. Never told my parents as a child. Just had these horrifying moments of distorted vision and incredibly intense sounds as well. I was so surprised to look into it a few years ago and realise it was an actual syndrome. Have also suffered from migraines throughout my life. So interesting to read everyone else’s experiences.

[@limalicious]

I get these symptoms with migraine and hypoglycemic episodes.

[@sethangeles5125]

i experienced this a lot of times when i was a kid, mostly when i had fever. id be laying down in the sofa and id hear a bunch of armoured soldiers shouting, making their way to our house. then id cry because it wont go away and i was too young to handle that much noise

[@3nimac]

I had this as a kid, it would usually feel like the room I'm in is the size of a stadium. It was always pretty scary. But it went away without any treatment.

[@custos3249]

90% of comments: I 100% have this Statisticians, psychologists, and physicians: .......**sigh**

[@eoincampbell1584]

I mean given how brief the episodes are and how not that distressing the distortions tend to be along with the fact that it usually happens to children I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of thing is actually quite common and just not very much reported.

[@custos3249]

@@eoincampbell1584 Or, Occam's razor, it's just more Web MD cancer diagnoses of another color.

[@eoincampbell1584]

@@custos3249 Or, Occam's razor, this many people wouldn't lie about their experiences for attention especially when so many people are commenting meaning that a person saying they have maybe had this syndrome isn't at all guaranteed to get them attention?

[@custos3249]

@@eoincampbell1584 Interesting. Despite your implication, I never said they were lying or looking for attention. But don't worry. I'm aware of how Hanlon's razor works too.

[@eoincampbell1584]

@@custos3249 Damn it I had to look up what Hanlon's razor was just to find that you're insulting me. Sneaky and stylish I may have to steal that. Anyway soz I misunderstood what your explanation for all the comments was. I'd like to know why you think all these people would describe similar experiences if they aren't lying and also you don't think they've had episodes of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome.

[@jamesdaly83]

I had this a lot myself when I was a kid (everything looks really small like in a doll's House, increased awareness of my peripheral vision and preceded by my vision rapidly seeming to zoom in and out and feeling like I'm spinning around), about the same time as my chronic 24/7, 365 depersonalisation started. Still have the same DP episode like 30 years later with no sign of it ever going away, but the Alice in Wonderland syndrome has subsided a bit, but sometimes comes back mostly when I'm overtired.

[@bsd103]

This sounds exactly like what I would experience, but sometimes with auditory hallucinations as well

[@youngj1241]

Im 18 and i still have it happen to me sometimes. Tbh now that im older i really like when it happens. I think the perfect way to describe is if you were ant man and started shrinking rapidly in a room

[@PinkieFlamingo]

Get your DNA tested for SYNESTHIA, Miss. If you prove positive; AVOID halloicogenics & intoxicating substances of ANY kind, Rx or not. I can trip on baby aspirin like the Beatles did on LSD.

[@youngj1241]

@@PinkieFlamingo too late 💀 But im fine I'm pretty sure i dont have synesthia

[@pestilenssi8979]

can't wait till tiktok finds this

[@lofi4381]

You knew.

[@intosomethingsometimes2193]

Finally I’ve found what was going on when I felt like the house is moving or when I felt like I become so small and everything else was so big.

[@samuthius]

I used to get this all the time as a kid especially when I was ill. Hands felt huge and room looked tiny. What's strange is that it happens even now as an adult mostly when I'm in a dark room thinking about something profound but can also happen when I'm in a intensely focused conversation. It used to scare me but now I kinda enjoy it because it's so interesting. Moving and looking around the room normally snaps me back to reality!

[@bluemassgamer17]

I get this sometimes when trying to sleep. The wall looks and feels smaller as I felt/got bigger and doesn't stop until I finally when to sleep after like 30min-1 hour. When it first happened to me I was creeped out because I knew what I was sensing/seeing wasn't real but I couldn't control it but over time I just accept it whenever it happens. Im happy that I'm not alone in this ☺️

[@AlexandraBryngelsson]

I definitely had this or something similar when I was a kid, sometimes I would feel like I was much bigger than I was, and sometimes I would feel like my hands were made of stone. My hands weren't heavy or hard to move they just felt like they had a hard surface. Sporadically, I got the feelings later in life too

[@Sierragomez023]

I had this when I was a kid. Everytime I had a fever or got sick, things would be louder, slower , or faster. I’d feel too big to fit through the door too. Eventually, it went away.

[@lc7592]

Oh wow seems like everyone in the comment section went through this 🙄

[@hireahitCA]

Banana Milk and? It’s likely more common than would be medically diagnosed since it tends to resolve itself. I was taken to a doctor but it was attributed to acetaminophen and because it wasn’t happening repeatedly no further action was taken. I didn’t even mention it to my parents when it did occur again some years later.

[@lc7592]

Dave Self-diagnosing is wrong. If a medically professional did not diagnose an illness, I do not believe it. That is my opinion and it’s as simple as that. Now, more common things such as depression in adolescence is more believable. But as the video says, this problem *rarely* occurs to the population- and here, almost 90% of the comments say they have it. It’s just like almost everyone says they have OCD when they want stuff in certain way. OCD is much more than that. In reality, they don’t have obsessive compulsive disorder, they just have a preference of doing certain things. Another example of an misunderstanding is people searching up “lumps” somewhere in the body on Google. WebMD tells them they have cancer. They freak out saying they have some severe illness. When in reality, they’re misinformed

[@WyhattMP4]

Banana Milk I’m sure that many people who have this syndrome researched it knowing they have it.

[@roses1852]

@@lc7592 ikr.

[@toosexy4399]

If I have the syndrome I'm going to want to watch this dumbass

[@IJustWantToUseMyName]

I have chronic migraines and have experienced this, usually the sensation of one of my arms growing to very large sizes. It stopped once the neurologist started treating me with a combination of Botox injections and amitriptyline, which reduced the severity of the migraines.

[@amygdala9679]

I have these symptoms as part of my depersonalization / derealization disorder. But my brain is otherwise intact, I've had a lot of neurological tests done.

[@alexcapdestanca4780]

I feel you bro

[@AClockworkYokai]

Same

[@M0rbidCuriositea]

Holy cow, this may explain the wacky hallucinations I had with an infection I had in my early teen years. It felt like the TV was playing in fast forward mode, my hands felt very large, and any cloth I touched felt like that really dry, uncomfortable wool. I also found out much later that I had had EBV at some point in my life. I wonder if the "rarity" of this condition is more associated with either dismissal of the symptoms as generalized hallucinations caused by dehydration and infection + dismissal of children's imaginations.

[@myoko343]

OMG I had mono and then I hallucinated shadow figures for weeks after. Got MRI's and everything seemed normal so we thought it was because of my anti-depressants. THIS makes sense now!

[@tru7hhimself]

it might as well have been the antidepressants. they makes more serotonin available for the neurons (and it takes a while for the brain to adjust), just as ecstasy floods the brain with serotonin. seeing shadow people is a common occurrence with high doses of mdma.

[@patrickn4171]

One of my weirdest memories of mono was when I was looking at a lamp across the house, my vision kept zooming in on it so it looked like I was a foot or two away when on reality I was 20 feet away. It would zoom in and go back every couple of seconds. I also saw flashes of light every time I was in the dark, they were like little lightning bolts that would appear from the side and hit my arm and go away. I was 15 and so I remember it pretty well, and I only took OTC drugs for pain so I never really understood what was happening. A hallucination makes sense as an explanation, I've never had a migraine or epileptic activity as far as I know

[@andrewmoxon6244]

I absolutely hate this feeling. I had a fever/migraine when I was about 7, and had a nightmare. I still remember the depth perception in my dream, and being screamed at. They were really far away, and then really close, still screaming. I'm nearly 40, and the nightmare is still clear as day. If my vision goes, I have to get out of bed and sit in a quiet room with the light on. Looking around until my vision returns to normal. I wish I had the positive thoughts like most.

[@JakeThe_Dog]

2:01 A great opportunity WASTED

[@EdwardCarnby_Fan3]

I experience this as a kid especially when i have fever and i still remember where i suddenly woke up, go to the living room bc my parents sleep there (somehow) and scream ITS GETTING BIGGER until my dad gets mad at me.

[@cedarbobedar7223]

I had it as a kid. Still do but much less frequently.

[@aVoidPiOver2Rad]

Same here

[@xscarlettevee]

I’ve had this for 6 years and I don’t have anything like this..

[@sdfkjgh]

1:14 Ever laugh so hard, things sound metallic? The auditory hallucinations might have a hypoxic cause.

[@midnightmoonbeam5600]

I wonder if I have it I always feel like I'm falling down a rabbit hole....

[@manuel9219]

2:01 ahahahaahahahahahahahahah I just can't dude. This reality is getting way too ridiculous.

[@dragon8me2]

I wasn't sure if I entered a strange dark humor universe, so I double check. no. still in our dark comedy of a world... god it's upturning.

[@nya8482]

It‘s just a name.... you know multiple people can have one surname right

[@ryanrigley]

When I was young I would see heads shrink whenever I was sick. It was so consistent and common that I was never alarmed as I knew it was just a cold symptom. Sure enough as mentioned on this show I haven't had these visual hallucinations as a grown-up.

[@illiteratemochi4150]

I had this as a kid! Its nice to know that I wasn’t crazy.

[@cesarbravo822]

Nicole Hubbard Me too! I thought I was the only one